Automatic Updates Set To Automatic But Still Doesn't Work? HELP!!

Just 10 hours earlier I had checked Windows Update for SP2 and when I found
that it still wasn't available, I shut the PC down. The next day, today, I
get on to check for updates and.....it tells me that I had to set Automatic
Updates to enable in my Services....well, IT IS SET TO AUTOMATIC! I get this
error: 0x8DDD0018 which doens't seem to be a recognized error according to
the search page I went to at Microsoft. I need some help here if anybody has
it...Thank you for your time.

Scott

Just download it yourself from theMicrosoft download site - 270+Mb file.

"Scotty" <> wrote in message
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> Just 10 hours earlier I had checked Windows Update for SP2 and when I
> found
> that it still wasn't available, I shut the PC down. The next day, today,
> I
> get on to check for updates and.....it tells me that I had to set
> Automatic
> Updates to enable in my Services....well, IT IS SET TO AUTOMATIC! I get
> this
> error: 0x8DDD0018 which doens't seem to be a recognized error according to
> the search page I went to at Microsoft. I need some help here if anybody
> has
> it...Thank you for your time.
>
> Scott

I get this same error - Office Update, on the other hand, works well. I
think MS is flooded with update requests, and I can no longer find XPSP2 on
the MSDN site. Looks like it has been disabled for now. I hear the official
release date is the 20th, but I hope the Windows Update is back up and
running by then...

"Scotty" wrote:

> Just 10 hours earlier I had checked Windows Update for SP2 and when I found
> that it still wasn't available, I shut the PC down. The next day, today, I
> get on to check for updates and.....it tells me that I had to set Automatic
> Updates to enable in my Services....well, IT IS SET TO AUTOMATIC! I get this
> error: 0x8DDD0018 which doens't seem to be a recognized error according to
> the search page I went to at Microsoft. I need some help here if anybody has
> it...Thank you for your time.
>
> Scott

Scotty wrote:

> Just 10 hours earlier I had checked Windows Update for SP2 and when I found
> that it still wasn't available, I shut the PC down. The next day, today, I
> get on to check for updates and.....it tells me that I had to set Automatic
> Updates to enable in my Services....well, IT IS SET TO AUTOMATIC! I get this
> error: 0x8DDD0018 which doens't seem to be a recognized error according to
> the search page I went to at Microsoft. I need some help here if anybody has
> it...Thank you for your time.
Hi

What about the BITS service? Set it to Automatic if it
is not, ans see if that helps...


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Microsoft Australia/NZ say 26 August for official release of SP2

John Allen

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:05:02 -0700, Scotty
<> wrote:

>Just 10 hours earlier I had checked Windows Update for SP2 and when I found
>that it still wasn't available, I shut the PC down. The next day, today, I
>get on to check for updates and.....it tells me that I had to set Automatic
>Updates to enable in my Services....well, IT IS SET TO AUTOMATIC! I get this
>error: 0x8DDD0018 which doens't seem to be a recognized error according to
>the search page I went to at Microsoft. I need some help here if anybody has
>it...Thank you for your time.
>
>Scott