If we look at this official Microsoft KB article, we can see that error 0x80004005 can be fixed in the following way: select the Start button, then select Settings > Update & security > Activation, then select Troubleshoot to run the Activation troubleshooter. The first thing we should do is to ensure that windows has been activated properly. Luckily enough, there are some workarounds for each one of these scenarios.
This can be due to a number of reasons, the most common ones being the following:
If you stumbled upon this post, it might be the case that you hit this dreadful error message while trying to install this or other updates through Windows Update:įeature update to Windows 10, version 1607 – Error 0x80004005 These days a lot of users are installing the recently released the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, which brings a lot of useful features we already mentioned here.
