I can not open window's update.

when I try to access my windows update I get the error number 0x8DDD0018, and everytime that I try to access it, I get the same error. I've tried the troubleshooting it provides, I've even tried e-mail my problem in, and I did what it said to, but it still won't let me open it.

I had same prob do to installing programs and removeing them caused the prob
heres the fix and it works .

You know the drill. You get on windowsupdates.microsoft.com and it says that
it is now checking for available updates. Thing is, it doesn't come back and
tell you what the available updates are. It just sits there like a big dummy.
I have browsed this newsgroup for answers and it appears that one must run
the Regsvr32.exe command for 4 different .dll files to fix this problem. The
5 .dll's being: wuapi.dll wups.dll wuaueng.dll wucltui.dll
"Charles" wrote:

> when I try to access my windows update I get the error number 0x8DDD0018, and everytime that I try to access it, I get the same error. I've tried the troubleshooting it provides, I've even tried e-mail my problem in, and I did what it said to, but it still won't let me open it

That's the ONE. Thanks a lot for the tip! Must be mentioned in the MS error
message--all the services appeared as as runnning but the DLL's had to be
registred as well.

Cheers
Alex

"nicholas" wrote:

> I had same prob do to installing programs and removeing them caused the prob
> heres the fix and it works .
>
> You know the drill. You get on windowsupdates.microsoft.com and it says that
> it is now checking for available updates. Thing is, it doesn't come back and
> tell you what the available updates are. It just sits there like a big dummy.
> I have browsed this newsgroup for answers and it appears that one must run
> the Regsvr32.exe command for 4 different .dll files to fix this problem. The
> 5 .dll's being: wuapi.dll wups.dll wuaueng.dll wucltui.dll
> "Charles" wrote:
>
> > when I try to access my windows update I get the error number 0x8DDD0018, and everytime that I try to access it, I get the same error. I've tried the troubleshooting it provides, I've even tried e-mail my problem in, and I did what it said to, but it still won't let me open it

oh my GOD,

Nicholas you are the MAN... although you wrote about this fix back in
March, CLASSACT and myself (and perhaps a whole other bunch of people) thank
you very much for this....

I tried everything ion the book and had no luck til I tried your trick and
it worked

thank you thank you



"classact" wrote:

> That's the ONE. Thanks a lot for the tip! Must be mentioned in the MS error
> message--all the services appeared as as runnning but the DLL's had to be
> registred as well.
>
> Cheers
> Alex
>
> "nicholas" wrote:
>
> > I had same prob do to installing programs and removeing them caused the prob
> > heres the fix and it works .
> >
> > You know the drill. You get on windowsupdates.microsoft.com and it says that
> > it is now checking for available updates. Thing is, it doesn't come back and
> > tell you what the available updates are. It just sits there like a big dummy.
> > I have browsed this newsgroup for answers and it appears that one must run
> > the Regsvr32.exe command for 4 different .dll files to fix this problem. The
> > 5 .dll's being: wuapi.dll wups.dll wuaueng.dll wucltui.dll
> > "Charles" wrote:
> >
> > > when I try to access my windows update I get the error number 0x8DDD0018, and everytime that I try to access it, I get the same error. I've tried the troubleshooting it provides, I've even tried e-mail my problem in, and I did what it said to, but it still won't let me open it

Thanks very much Nicholas-I've tried a bunch of different things and your
suggestion got it going right off. Thank you!

"nicholas" wrote:

> I had same prob do to installing programs and removeing them caused the prob
> heres the fix and it works .
>
> You know the drill. You get on windowsupdates.microsoft.com and it says that
> it is now checking for available updates. Thing is, it doesn't come back and
> tell you what the available updates are. It just sits there like a big dummy.
> I have browsed this newsgroup for answers and it appears that one must run
> the Regsvr32.exe command for 4 different .dll files to fix this problem. The
> 5 .dll's being: wuapi.dll wups.dll wuaueng.dll wucltui.dll
> "Charles" wrote:
>
> > when I try to access my windows update I get the error number 0x8DDD0018, and everytime that I try to access it, I get the same error. I've tried the troubleshooting it provides, I've even tried e-mail my problem in, and I did what it said to, but it still won't let me open it