The wife's PC doesn't seem to want to update properly. I have no idea if it's connected but today it froze a couple of times on startup After powering off/on a couple of times it fired up and I was able to get into her (admin) account. On doing this I noticed Avast was showing several updates were required e.g. Adobe Air which were completed but then a message appeared stating that Windows Updates had failed or something. I tried again via the start menu but it failed to update and gave me an error code:
Error code 8007EE2
With advice to try adding the following to the list of allowed sites in the Windows Firewall
http://*.update.microsoft.com
https://*.update.microsoft.com
http://download.windowsupdate.com
I am using Windows Firewall, however, and this should apparently not be necessary but I have checked WF and can't see these items in the list of allowed sites so am wondering what to do. I noticed from the that the last windows updates were done in July but they should have been automatic so it seems the problem started around then.
Rather than change anything I disabled Windows Firewall and tried to update but once again it failed and this time gave a slightly different code 80072ee2 with a message that Windows was unable to search for updates.
Not sure what to do now. It's Win 7 by the way. TIA
PS I tried to attach a screenshot of the window which opened but was unable to upload it. Wondering if this is part of the same problem...