In this post, we’ll look at the Wndows Update Error Message “0x80244021 – WU_E_PT_HTTP_STATUS_BAD_GATEWAY” that is usually displayed when things go wrong during the update process.
Note that this Windows Update error is application for both Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Error Message
0x80244021 – WU_E_PT_HTTP_STATUS_BAD_GATEWAY
Windows Update Error Details
Same as HTTP status 502 – the server while acting as a gateway or a proxy received an invalid response from the upstream server it accessed in attempting to fulfill the request.