Windows 10 updating problem

[king1]

In settings: windows update, my status shows up to date, last check 14/12/22. Pressing the check for updates  button does nothing. I tried running the Windows update troubleshooter, and it gets as far as "checking for requested reset", and nothing happens, apart from the green progress bar running. It will sit like that for many minutes.

The computer is a 3 year old desktop, core i5 Intel, 8mb ram. The hard drive has 80% storage available.

Any ideas or hints?

Edited to add - I run Malwarebytes, and Windows Defender. Neither report any problems.

I would leave that troubleshooter running as long as it needs and see what happens - up to a couple of hours...  

Also make sure you restart from the start menu a couple of times...

and it wouldn't hurt to hold fire for a week or two to see if it resolves itself, since it is unlikely there is much in the way of updates in that short period of time... 

But, my goto to definitively sort out windows update issues is Tweaking.coms windows repair AIO
https://www.tweaking.com/content/page/wi...n_one.html
(I usually use the portable version)

It looks a bit daunting but it does have a preset specifically for Windows updates.  Never failed me that I can recall...

HTH