Effective Solutions to Resolve QuickBooks
Error 15215
The Payroll Service feature in QuickBooks Desktop deals with your business’s
employees’ taxes and wages. Encountering errors while downloading payroll
updates can be the worst, as it can restrict you from availing of some of the
most crucial payroll services. One such error is QuickBooks error 15215 that
arises while downloading the payroll updates, and it crashes with some other
program that is already running in the background. Your screen shows a
message, “ Error 15215: Unable to verify digital signature. If you want to know
what causes the error and how to eliminate it, read this article till the end.
Call us at our Toll-Free 1.855.738.2784 and speak to our team of QuickBooks
experts in order to get help from them to fix the QuickBooks Desktop error
15215.
Why does Error 15215 in QuickBooks come
up?
The error code 15215 can be triggered due to the following reasons1. You cannot connect to the update server if your Windows firewall settings are
incorrect.
2. If you are not using your QuickBooks Desktop as the Windows Administrator.
Methods to Fix the Payroll Update
Installation Error 15215
If you are encountering the error code 15215 due to the reasons mentioned above
and are looking for the most useful solutions to fix it, check out the following steps-
SOLUTION 1: Use your QuickBooks as the
Windows Administrator
1. If the QuickBooks Desktop application is already running, then exit it.
2. Now, go to the QuickBooks Desktop icon and right-click on it.
3. Tap on the ‘Run as Administrator’ option.
4. A dialog box might appear on the screen with a message, “Do you want to allow
this program to make changes to your computer?,” hit ‘Yes’.
SOLUTION 2: Restart Windows in Selective Startup
Mode and switch it back to the Normal Startup
Mode
1. Exit the QuickBooks program if it is running.
2. Now, press “Windows + R” to open the ‘Run’ command and then type ‘MSConfig.
3. Hit ‘OK’; The ‘System Configuration Utility’ will open.
4. Next, select the ‘Selective Startup’ checkbox and uncheck the ‘Load Startup Items’
checkbox.
5. Tap ‘OK’ and restart your system. Once you restart the computer, run your
QuickBooks Desktop to install the recent version of payroll updates.
6. Once it gets installed, go back to the ‘System Configuration Utility’.
7. This time, choose ‘Normal Startup’ and hit ‘OK’.
8. At last, restart your computer system.
The given solutions if followed properly will fix the QuickBooks error 15215. If they
does not, then you must try to reboot your computer system in order to get rid of any
blocked connections. For quick solutions, you can also consult one of our QuickBooks
experts by dialing our Toll-Free 1.855.738.2784 and get error code 15215 resolved in
minutes.