{"id":294452,"date":"2019-02-01T08:25:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T06:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=294452"},"modified":"2019-02-01T08:27:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T06:27:01","slug":"windows-10-users-unable-to-download-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/294452-windows-10-users-unable-to-download-updates.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 users unable to download updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many Windows 10 users worldwide have been unable to connect to the Windows Update service for the past two days, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/many-windows-10-users-unable-to-connect-to-windows-update-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>BleepingComputer<\/strong><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>According the report, when affected users attempt to update their operating system, Windows displayed the following error report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We couldn&#8217;t connect to the update service. We&#8217;ll try again later, or you can check now. If it still doesn&#8217;t work, make sure you&#8217;re connected to the Internet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is unclear what caused this issue, with many users speculating that it was either a problem with Windows Defender or their DNS configuration.<\/p>\n<p>This problem does not affect all Windows 10 users, but a number of users who were affected by the issue have stated that switching their DNS allowed them to download updates.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said the issue has been fixed, but if you are still unable to download Windows updates, switching to Google&#8217;s public DNS service may resolve the problem.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/294216-the-latest-windows-10-update-is-the-least-successful-version-ever.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The latest Windows 10 update is the least successful version ever<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Windows 10 users worldwide have been unable to connect to the Update service for the past two days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":174478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[27100,14053,42740,26970],"class_list":["post-294452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-dns","tag-operating-system","tag-updates","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294472,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294452\/revisions\/294472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}