If you have received the error without knowing causes and effective remedy, you can try steps in this guide which is dedicated to the error in different conditions.
Therefore, it seems complicated to solve the problem and that is true in some cases. Sometimes, even same error message can't be fixed with identical solution under different Windows versions. Same error code with different error messages can be totally different problem. Error code 0x80070490 can be an extremely broad issue to many Windows users, because it happens to various circumstances. The error 0x80070490 usually appears when users try to install Windows updates, upgrade Windows operating system, install an application from Windows Store, and it can be triggered by causes like registry corruption, corrupted files in Component-Based Servicing (CBS), third-party software coalification, faulty system errors, etc.
