QuickBooks is an accounting software that was made by Intuit in order to provide small business owners with a system that would help them in providing financial structure and compliance to their businesses. It is one of the most popular software available in market today for the purpose. However, due to certain reasons one may encounter various error messages, one amongst them being QuickBooks error 15105 that is caused because of a number of reasons leading to many problems like inaccessibility of the entire data stored in the application. One may encounter an error message like the following:
"15105: The version of the update program could not be read."
The most common reasons for the occurrence of the error are given as under:
- Windows registry entries that are damaged due to the use of any Windows Registry cleaner like the RegCure.
- QuickBooks update is damaged.
To resolve the issue you need to follow one or all of the following steps given:
- Run the utility Reboot.Bat.
- Repair the QuickBooks installation.
- Download the update after deleting it.
- 1. For this you need to close Quickbooks.
- 2. Now rename the DownloadQBxx folder DownloadQBxx.OLD, where xx is the version of the QuickBooks that is being used.
- 3. Now open QuickBooks and select Help menu and then Update QuickBooks.
- 4. Now click on the 'Update Now' tab.
- 5. Select 'Reset the updates' checkbox.
- 6. Click on the 'Get Updates' button and download the updates again.
- 7. Once downloading is done close QuickBooks and then open it again.
- 8. Now click on the 'Install Now' button in 'QuickBooks Update Service' window to install
the update. - Uninstall and then reinstall QuickBooks. However, this process may make you lose some important data stored in th application. Therefore, if you encounter such a situation then you need to use a reliable and efficient QuickBooks data recovery tool that can recover and restore the lost or inaccessible data