I ran Belarc Advisor, & did a manual install of the detected missing updates & then after multiple reboots, Win updates is working again. hmm.
I see the error flagged in SFC is:
Cannot repair member file [l:18{9}]"MSDTC.LOG" of Microsoft-Windows-COM-DTC-Runtime.
Full line:
Cannot repair member file [l:18{9}]"MSDTC.LOG" of Microsoft-Windows-COM-DTC-Runtime, Version = 6.1.7600.16385, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_AMD64 (9), Culture neutral, VersionScope = 1 nonSxS, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}, Type neutral, TypeName neutral, PublicKey neutral in the store, file is missing.
Steps taken to date:
1.From Folder Options, turn on the "Show hidden files" and uncheck "Hide protected operating system files". Take ownership of the folder: C:\Windows\System32\MsDtc then delete MSDTC.log
2.Reboot the PC and run sfc again.
NOTE: the MSDTC.log will be re-created again the next time Microsoft-Windows-COM-DTC-Runtime try to log to this file.
SFC still detecting error. My reading continues!