I have an IBM Thinkpad T60 laptop. I haven't used it in over a year. Well, I dusted it off last week and installed Windows 7 onto it. Everything went pretty well but now I noticed that I am unable to install updates. I get the error code above. How do I fix this?

Try the System Update Readiness Tool:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947821

It could be your firewall turn any anti-virus (including windows firewall off) and see if that works. If so, next time just add windows update as a perametter to your anti-virus.

Hi 08g8man, You can try to take following steps to remove Windows Update Temporary folder to troubleshoot this issue: 1. Click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, right-click Command Prompt, and select Run as Administrator.2. If you receive a notification from User Account Control simply click Continue.3. At the command prompt, type the following, command and then press ENTER. net stop wuauservren %systemroot%\SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistributionold net start wuauserv 5. Restart the computer to test the problem. Hope it helps.