

Any of these causes can easily be resolved by simply restarting the Windows Update components and making some changes in the registry to add a registry key to set updates to auto. This included update service not getting started properly or a corrupted file in the Windows update folder.

There are certain antivirus applications that are well known for causing issues like these and the solution is to simply disable the antivirus application.

This can happen because of false positives or weird compatibility issues.
