Posted December 17, 201211 yr FPCH Admin I upgraded my Windows 7 into Windows 8 recently. Now my windows update is not working suddenly from yesterday. It was working fine and installing all drivers, windows updates and Microsoft updates automatically without any problem. Now it's showing it is only set to windows updates and not any other microsoft product updates and asks me to install that service from their site. It directs me to a site from where I can install Microsoft update feature. I did that several times by now. But it seems it's not working and showing the same message, "Get updates for other Microsoft products. Find out more." And update history shows I never installed any updates. And update is not working as well. If I click 'check for updates', the update window freezes for several minutes, and then started to work again, check for several minutes and always show error. What is the problem? I tried troubleshooting several time. It always shows problems are fixed. Should I refresh or reset the PC to solve this problem? If so, should I need to create a recovery partition first? I upgraded to windows 8 from windows 7 a month ago. I didn't create a recovery partition. My PC had a recovery partition created by the OEM when I bought it. My question is what happened to the already existing recovery partition when I upgraded? Was it upgraded to windows 8 as well? I created backup to an external hard drive 2 days ago. Now if I restart or refresh my PC, will I be needing windows in a disk or drive? I don't have one since I upgraded using online upgrade (upgrade assistant). I can't afford to buy new windows if all gone when resetting or refreshing a PC. I am a student and my family can't afford to buy new PC or windows. I upgraded using the offer which is affordable. Considering all these facts, please give me a solution. I want my windows upgrade tool to work again, not only for windows updates, but for other microsoft updates as well. Also I need the information on the recovery thing. Thank you. View this thread Off Topic Forum - Unlike the Rest
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