

Try the Default settings first, and if that does not work, try Aggressive.

None of the usual Windows Update repair tools corrected the problem. But this computer was all-new (a new Windows install) and had never had a group policy set related to this (at least, it wasn’t supposed to have had it set)! This sort of behavior is expected if your PC is set to receive Windows Updates via the WSUS service in other words, not from the standard Windows Updates servers. You receive updates: Managed by your system administrator The problem manifested itself when Windows Update was run rather than successfully connect to the Windows Update server and download updates information, the client would return an error: Today I encountered a bizarre issue when performing a routine setup on a refurbished (read: practically brand new) Dell Studio laptop.
