Have you struck with the situation when downloading a payroll or QuickBooks update and receive the following error message, QuickBooks error 15102: Failed to reset update? If yes, then this article contains information regarding how to fix this issue manually and automatically. This article will help you to troubleshoot 15102 error codes that you may receive.
What causes QuickBooks 15102 error?
This error is caused by windows system files damage. There can be several reasons which may leads to system file errors like an incomplete installation, incomplete un-installation or improper deletion of hardware or application. It can also be caused if your computer is recovered from virus attack, all these activities may result deletion or corruption of the entries in the windows system files. Due to this corruption of the system file results to missing and wrongly linked information.
How to fix it?
To fix error issue intuit recommends more than one solution. You need to try all theses below mentioned manual solution to fix issue. For best results, do it as in order mentioned here.
Solution: Run as administrator
• Make a right click on QuickBooks icon and tap to select Properties
• Then click on the Shortcut tab
• After that tap on the Advanced button
• Now check the box for Run As Administrator
• Click OK
• Open QuickBooks
• at the top of the screen Click Employees
• Now Select Get Payroll Updates option
• Select Download Entire Payroll Update
• Click to the Update option
It may has a chance that while fixing this error your QuickBooks file somehow get corrupted or the data in it get inaccessible or if you don’t want to go with above mentioned solution and want sometime easy and quick solution to fix this error then you must try QuickBooks file repair tool, as it is the best tool to fix any type of issue happened in your QuickBooks file and recover all the files from your or damaged QuickBooks without affecting any data loss.