Windows update broken by Microsoft's latest cumulative update....

Microsoft forgot to change an expiration date, and now all attempts to run Windows Update in Win7 are failing with the bogus message “Windows Update cannot currently check for updates, because the service is not running.
https://www.computerworld.com/articl...-80248015.html

There are some suggested temp fixes but it may be best to just wait until Microsoft issues a hotfix to solve the problem.