Courtesy of Domenic:-
Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services and check if Windows Installer
is running. If not, turn it on. Doing this solved error 8024401B on my computer.
Error 0x80072EE2 is: ERROR_INTERNET_TIMEOUT
Translation: The request has timed out.
http://update.microsoft.com/windowsu...=en&IsMu=False
When accessing the Update site, you receive the 0x80072EE2 or 0x80072EFD error.
http://www.updatexp.com/0x80072ee2.html
Finding a solution for the 0x80072EE2 error
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=836941
You receive an "Error 0x80072EE2" or "Error 0x80072EFD" error message when you try to
use Windows Update
See also:
When searching for available updates on the Windows Update site, you
receive the 0x8024502d error.
http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.co...cleid=26&ln=en
Posted by =Mac=
<snip of relevant part> I was getting the 0x80072EE2 message on a machine this
evening. I never had a problem with it.
I tried all of your suggestions to no avail. However, in a post from several months
ago, someone mentioned an MTU seating on a router. I had upgraded the firmware on my
home router several days ago and left the MTU set at the default of 1500. Come to
think of it, my Internet connection seemed a little sluggish since I upgraded the
firmware.
I reset the MTU to 1492, and voila! Windows Update works again.
I write this post so that someone else doesn't overlook a simple solution to a very
frustrating problem.
Router / Firewall / Wireless Router MTU ==> 1492 or less <snip>
Result posted by “tinman”
<snip> The problem is with the AOL connection. Basically you need to amend the MTU
settings of the WAN down to 1400. You can experiment and see if it works going up to
1460 but it doesn't work past that. <snip>
"Jean-Paul" wrote:
Provider : Wanadoo (french)
Firewall : Cisco 877
defaut MTU : 1450 => change to 1492
"nnmmss" <> wrote in message
news:64961240-E2A2-4A13-80CF-...
>I have a server with a ISA server 2000 installed on it, i have defined the
> anything said in http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=896226 on isa server. but
> when my internet explorer proxy connection is set to isa server(which is the
> server itself) i get the error 0x8024401B, and when i unset the proxy
> connection in IE to nothing i get the error 0x80072EE2.
>
> any one can help me?
> Thanks