Windows update error 80244023

 
A few things going on here… this box is both a squid proxy server and WSUS server. It was having trouble updating itself. I couldn’t find much from googling, so hopefully this will help someone else.
This is at least for Server 2008 R2, but should work with Windows 7. I had a strange issue with windows update, I think updates partially downloaded and just needed to be cleared. However I also had both a proxy pac file specified and a proxy hard coded into IE. I removed them both then ran through the following.
(again, ensure there are no connection issues between your WSUS server and client by removing the proxy if needed)
Stop the Windows Update Service.
Remove contents of C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download\
Remove or rename C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\Datastore.edb
Then updates should work!

 
Then run wuapp and update. Updates should now work.