Are you facing an error updating your QuickBooks software? The reason could be the corrupted download files not allowing you to update the QuickBooks application and trigger QuickBooks error 15106. The problem generally occurs due to the presence of a spy sweeper on your computer. Another reason could be you might not have a login as an administrator. Not having enough administrator privileges also triggers 15106 error in QuickBooks. To fix the problem, you can try to uninstall spice speaker and logged in to your system as an administrator. Further, you can also try to reset the update a clean installation of QuickBooks. Still, facing an error 15106? Call us to get rid of this issue.
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You receive this error while updating QuickBooks Desktop to the latest release because of one of the following:
You have an antivirus application installed on your computer that's blocking the update.
You aren’t logged in as the administrator on the computer.
Step 1: Log in to your computer as an administrator
But I already logged in as a different user.
Right-click on the QuickBooks Desktop icon, then select Run as Administrator. This will change your access to an administrator.
Note: If you don’t have an antivirus installed, skip to step 3.
Step 2: Stop your antivirus application and rename folders
On your keyboard, press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open Task Manager.
Go to the Processes tab, then look for [ANTIVIRUS].exe.
Example: Spy Sweeper.exe.
Note: If you get an error, uninstall the antivirus application.
Select End Process.
Rename the QuickBooks Cloud Accounting update folder.
On your keyboard, press Windows key+E to open File Explorer.
Go to C:\Program Files\Intuit\QuickBooks(year)\Components.
For 64-bit users, go to C:\Program Files(x86)\Intuit\Quickbooks(year)\Components.
Right-click on the downloadqbXX folder, then select Rename. Note that XX stands for the year version of your QuickBooks.
Example: downloadqb18 for QuickBooks Desktop 2018.
Add .old to the end of the name.
Example: downloadqbxx.old.
Re-update QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise.
Step 3: Turn off User Account Control (UAC)
Windows 7 and 8: temporarily turn off UAC.
Windows 10: proceed to step 4.
Step 4: Perform a clean install in Selective Startup
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Bruce