Fix: Windows Update Errors 80070020, 80073712, 0x800f081f

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If your Windows Update Agent is corrupt, you may receive errors while installing Windows Update on your Windows figurer. If y'all e'er become the post-obit error 80073712 bulletin while attempting to install Windows Updates, chances are CBS, also known as Windows Component-Based Servicing are corrupted. To overcome this 80073712 error, y'all can undertake the post-obit deportment.

Windows Update Errors 80070020, 80073712, 0x800f081f

1] Repair WU with DISM

Download and run the System Update Readiness Tool, in before versions and at present the DISM, and so install the updates once again. The tool checks your reckoner for inconsistencies that attempt to foreclose the successful installation of future updates, service packs, software, etc. and tries to resolve them.

ii] Run Windows Update Troubleshooter

Run the Windows Update Troubleshooter and see if information technology helps.

3] Run SFC browse

If none of the higher up-specified options piece of work, follow these steps to run the Arrangement File Checker (SFC.exe) tool with the sfc /scannow command:

Open up the command prompt window. In it, type "sfc /scannow" in the control box window, and press "Enter".

Attempt to install the updates over again.

4] Perform an in-place upgrade

If all of the above solutions fail, every bit a last resort, take the following arroyo – perform an in-place upgrade.

Close all the running applications, open up the computer's DVD bulldoze and insert Windows installation media, and and then click "Install At present" in the Setup window.

Click "Go online to obtain the latest updates for installation" option.

Choose the version of Windows that y'all would want to "Upgrade" or "In-place" in the "Install Windows" screen.

Every bit the last step, one time the installation is complete, reboot your computer and run Windows Update to cheque if the error is resolved.

Hope something helps.

Anand Khanse is the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, a 10-twelvemonth Microsoft MVP (2006-16) & a Windows Insider MVP. Please read the entire post & the comments starting time, create a System Restore Betoken before making any changes to your system & be careful about any 3rd-party offers while installing freeware.