I believe a virus or trojan from a long way back damaged or corrupted the Windows Update and App components. All my metro apps cannot connect to 'servers' or the internet
and Windows Update could not even find updates until I tried to mend it myself and ran multiple fix it Microsoft applications to return the Service to my computer. Fortunately, now it searches but doesn't find anything.
I believe these fundamental components have been corrupted or deleted by a third party program (which I deleted with Norton Internet Security a while back) and my machine can no longer connect to Microsoft servers for updates and app support.
I've tried almost everything apart from a full factory reset and I'm really not planning on doing that as I don't currently have an external backup disk.
Will post any further necessary info required.
and Windows Update could not even find updates until I tried to mend it myself and ran multiple fix it Microsoft applications to return the Service to my computer. Fortunately, now it searches but doesn't find anything.
I believe these fundamental components have been corrupted or deleted by a third party program (which I deleted with Norton Internet Security a while back) and my machine can no longer connect to Microsoft servers for updates and app support.
I've tried almost everything apart from a full factory reset and I'm really not planning on doing that as I don't currently have an external backup disk.
Will post any further necessary info required.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8