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Jamess
Jamess May 2 '19

QuickBooks program is without question an adorn accounting solution that comprise of simple usable features that will help in handling the day today accounting operations of businesses of industries and size. With QuickBooks business management becomes easy and lot of time is saved. Like many software QuickBooks has certain limitations due to which there crops up situations when error occurs. The error could be caused because of technical faults  if not resolved in time they might be more critical affecting the job process.


QuickBooks Error 15106 is one of those errors that the consumer usually faces while downloading QuickBooks Desktop updates followed closely by an error message: “The update program can not be opened. The update program is damaged.”


The error happens due to two possible reasons. They are the following:

Detection of Spy sweeper when you look at the webroot antivirus program

Probably may very well not be logged in while the computer administrator that restricts your ability to read or write new files


To correct the error you will need to download the latest QuickBooks Premier Desktop 2017 Update.


Simple tips to Resolve the Error 15106?

To eliminate the error you can easily proceed with the methods mentioned below:


If you are not logged in as Administrator, you need to switch user and login as Administrator. Achieving this might resolve the issue. In the event that error is certainly not resolved go on to the 2nd approach to troubleshoot the issue.

If you see that the error occurs because of the Spy Sweeper then chances are you can open Windows Task Manager simply by using (Ctrl+Shift+Esc) keys together. You need to click on the ‘Processes’ tab and appearance for ‘Spy Sweeper.exe. Further it is possible to attempt doing listed here things:

If you detect this in the processing tab, you should remove or uninstall it by opening ‘Add/Remove programs’ in the Windows. Doing this might resolve the problem.

For you aren't able locate the Spy Sweeper in your computer system, you need to open drive C and navigate to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Intuit\QuickBooksxx\Components. You will need to reset the QuickBooks update after renaming downloadqb < nn> folder as downloadqb< nn >.old. For certain doing this will fix the issue.

In case both the strategy mentioned above fail to fix the QuickBooks not able to Update and encounter error 15106, turn fully off the consumer Account Control temporarily if you're a Vista user or you are using Windows 7 or Windows 8.

Still if it does not fix the matter head to Selective Startup and perform clean install of QuickBooks.

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