Check to see if the Automatic Updates service is still running:
Click Start · Control Panel, then select Performance and Maintenance and
click System. Select the Automatic Updates tab and make sure that Automatic
is selected and then click OK.
Now check to see if Automatic Updates is service is running:
Click Start · Run and type "services.msc" without the quotes and press
enter. The Services window should pop-up. Under the name column find
Automatic Updates. If it does not appear there skip over the remainder of
this paragraph, if it is double-click on it; the properties dialog should
open up. Make sure it says "Automatic" in the Startup type box and the
Service status says "Started".
If you've made any changes to this point restart your computer and see if
the update will install yet. If the update continues to give errors
continue.
Register the DLL files:
Click Start · Run and type "cmd" without the quotes and press enter. Type in
the following and press return after each line:
REGSVR32 %windir%\system32\wuapi.dll
REGSVR32 %windir%\system32\wuaueng.dll
REGSVR32 %windir%\system32\atl.dll
REGSVR32 %windir%\system32\wucltui.dll
REGSVR32 %windir%\system32\wups.dll
Enter "exit" and press enter.
Check and see if the update will install yet, if the update continues not to
work please attach your WindowsUpdate.log file. To gather your
WindowsUpdate.log file select Start · Run, and then type "%windir%" and
press enter. The WindowsUpdate.log file will be located in this folder.
--
Ben B. [US]
"Herbert Fasteau" <Herbert
> wrote in
message news:B5A026E0-E25C-4500-AEF6-...
> Get back message "Failed to install catalogue files"
>
> "Ben B. [US]" wrote:
>
>> Can you try downloading and installing from
>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/i...93803-x86.exe?
>>
>> --
>> Ben B. [US]
>>
>> "hfasteau" <> wrote in message
>> news:FEE9AF13-611C-4741-B878-...
>> > Keep getting error code 8007F01E when I try to install the 3.1 intaller
>> > update. Get the message "Installation failed.".
>>
>>
>>