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Windows Updates stuck at "pausing updates" and Security stuck at "getting protection info"

Guest Josh Kronoff

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Tried attaching images but "something went wrong" with the website. Go figure.For months Defender has been stuck at "getting protection info" so I could never run a security scan. Been relying on third party apps like malwarebytes. I read that pausing windows updates and resuming them fixes this, but now for the last 2 weeks it's been stuck at pausing updates. I tried editing the registry recommended in a similar post with no luck. I couldn't get the pause to unstuck by deleting the pause files, because it hasn't completed pausing. Now I cannot get updates OR use windows security.

 

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