Error 0x80004005: How to Fix Windows Error

Creating a new entry in the registry editor on Windows can also fix the error code.

1. Open the Registry Editor via the search bar or with regedit via the Run dialog, which you call up with Windows key + R. It is important to use administrator rights.
2. In the window that now opens, navigate to the following path: ComputerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem.
3. Once there, use New to create a QWORD Value (64-bit) entry named LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy.
4. Double-click to open the entry you just created and check that there is a 1 in the Value field.
5. After a subsequent restart, the error should be resolved.

If error 0x80004005 occurs during an update , follow these steps:

1. Open the Command Prompt via the search bar or with the cmd.exe command via the Run dialog.
2. Make sure to run the function as administrator here as well.
3. Now restart the Windows update services. To do this, enter the following 5 commands individually and confirm with Enter to end the respective service: " net stop wuauserv ", " net stop bits ", " net stop trustedinstaller ", " net stop appidsvc ”, “ net stop cryptsvc ”.
4. Make sure to reactivate each of the services with start instead of stop . The error should now be fixed.

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