The below lists what the command will do
- Turns off windows update service
- Renames the SoftwareDistribution folder and clears it – this fixes corruption in many *.cab files
- Deletes all files in c:\windows\temp
- Turns off Windows modules installer service
- Deletes all *.cab and *.log files within the c:\windows\logs\cbs folder – this fixes corruption in many *.cab files
- Regenerates the *.cab files in the c:\windows\logs folder
- Turn on Windows module installer service
- Turns on the Windows Update service
- To begin, click Start, type in “cmd” (no quotes); wait for “CMD.EXE” or “Command Prompt” to appear in the list, then right click and “Run as Administrator”.
- Use your mouse to highlight the text below:
net stop wuauserv
cd %systemroot%
rename SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old
rmdir /q /s c:\windows\temp
net stop trustedinstaller
c:
cd c:\windows\logs\CBS
del *.cab
del *.log
rem regenerate cab files
c:\windows\system32\wuauclt.exe /detectnow
net start wuauserv
echo this is a dummy line