"Windows Can't Check For Updates"---Anyone else had this message on their computer? What did you do to resolve it?

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answer:when you right click the update icon, what options are you offered? if any. when you tell it to manually check for updates, what does it do?, does it show any error messages?, if so what messages?, including any error number it gives.

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