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.
You cannot download updates when you access the Windows Update Web site from a Windows
XP-based computer that is behind a firewall or a proxy server
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;896226
[Error number: 0x80244017], [Error number: 0x80244018], [Error number: 0x80244019], [Error
number: 0x8024401B], [Error number: 0x80244021]
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TaurArian [MS-MVP] 2005-2007 - Australia
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|I can`t download xp sp2 error=0x8024401, please tell me how to overcome this
| proxy?