ASN1 bad tag value met. Error Fix!

I could not install Windows Update BITS v2.0 and WinHTTP update KB842773.
The stand-alone install gave "ASN1 bad tag value met". After searching for
days, I found many had this error but no help working help was found.
Experimentation showed that the C:\Windows\System32\catroot folder held the
answer, as when re-named, the error changed to path not found 80070003. I
found a bunch of .CAT files in \catroot directory. As I clicked on them I
found two bad ones, oem1.CAT and oem3.CAT. Renaming these two files to .old
fixed the problem! They seemed to have magically disappeared after re-boot.

I hope this will help many and save hours of fruitless work.

-Kent

"Kent_Diego",

Thank you for this tip!

Sincerely,

Pat Walters [MSFT]


"Kent_Diego" <> wrote in message
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> I could not install Windows Update BITS v2.0 and WinHTTP update KB842773.
> The stand-alone install gave "ASN1 bad tag value met". After searching for
> days, I found many had this error but no help working help was found.
> Experimentation showed that the C:\Windows\System32\catroot folder held
the
> answer, as when re-named, the error changed to path not found 80070003. I
> found a bunch of .CAT files in \catroot directory. As I clicked on them I
> found two bad ones, oem1.CAT and oem3.CAT. Renaming these two files to
..old
> fixed the problem! They seemed to have magically disappeared after
re-boot.
>
> I hope this will help many and save hours of fruitless work.
>
> -Kent
>
>