newbie with problems
I am John, and a friend just gave me an Acer W3-810. I do have computer experience, but am new to W8.
My first project was to check for windows updates. However, whenever I click on 'Check for updates' on the windows update page I get an error message "Windows could not search for new updates" with a code 80072F8F. I am also unable to switch to a Microsoft account and receive a 'we're sorry but something went wrong...' message with a code 0x800b010. I am not sure, but believe bothof these issues to be tablet setup problems and only indirectly related to W8. Can someone help?
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First thing first....is this Windows 8 or 8.1? Check your version and if it is indeed just version 8.0, then uprade to 8.1immediately. Version 8.0 was a failed launch full of bugs and crashes and the upgrade will fix them all.....well most of them.
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Thanks for the quick response. The system was win8. After reading almost all of the Acer W3 notes and comments I came across the message that the time and date needed to be close to correct before updates and microsoft account signins would work. I hadn't really paid much attention to the date until then. After setting the date and time I was able to install 100+ updates to windows 8.0 and then update to 8.1. My microsoft account works and all seems well. Thanks again for the response.
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