I checked out the tweaks on that site you sent
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
and number 288 is a reg fix Restore Cryptographic Service - CryptSvc. This
seemed to work and now it's working fine! It turned out there was nothing in
the "image path". Why isn't this fix listed anywhere else online?
So even though you're probably a bot, I owe you some thanks.
"Jennifer" wrote:
> I found this on http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm
> "At the command prompt (Start/Run/CMD), type the following commands,
> pressing ENTER after each line:
>
> net stop cryptsvc
> ren %systemroot%\system32\catroot2 oldcatroot2
> net start cryptsvc
> "
> "Jeremy" wrote:
>
> > I was working on a game in Visual Basic 6.0 with DirectX 8.1 and started
> > getting some strange kind of
> >
> > memory leak that wasn't fixable in the code, so I decided to install the
> > Windows XP Home service pack 2
> >
> > which I had put off doing for a long while. I tried this through the
> > windowsupdate.microsoft.com using
> >
> > IE 6.0. This led to my first problem.
> >
> > Problem: Windows Update gives error
> > -Background Intelligent Transfer Service 2.0 unable to successfully install
> > -error log reports this error: 0x8007f0da
> > -can't find anything about it on google
> >
> > So I decided to try downloading it manually.
> >
> > Problem: Manual download/install of SP2 (KB884020) gives error
> > -Need a minimum of SP2 to install!
> >
> > This error seems odd. Why would this error even be programmed into the SP2
> > installation? I tried to
> >
> > download SP1 to see if that could fix it.
> >
> > Problem: Manual download/install of SP1 for Windows gives error
> > -Setup could not verify the integrity of the file Update.inf. Make sure the
> > Cryptographic service is
> >
> > running on this computer.
> >
> > Cryptographic Services were turned off on my computer, they've been like
> > that for a while. I don't know
> >
> > why that is, but for a time I seemed to get by without them. So I tried
> > starting it which lead to even
> >
> > more problems.
> >
> > Problem: Cryptographic Services won't start
> > -says error 2: missing file
> >
> > There are lots of troubleshootings to get this started found using google,
> > but none of them work,
> >
> > including everything listed at updatexp.com.
> >
> > Some notes:
> > -the Remote Call Procedure service is running
> > -a complete scan using the system file checker doesn't fix the "missing file"
> > -starting the service in safe mode doesn't work
> > -stopping and restarting various dependant dlls using regsvr32 doesn't work
> > -renaming either or both CatRoot and CatRoot2 folders doesn't work
> > -virus and spyware scans all turn up clean
> > -turning off firewall does not help either
> > -this is what the dberr.txt log says every time i try to start it
> >
> > CatalogDB: 4:05:23 PM 5/4/2005: WAITSVC: Calling StartService(): CryptSvc
> > CatalogDB: 4:05:23 PM 5/4/2005: File #4 at line #313 encountered error
> > 0x00000002
> > CatalogDB: 4:05:23 PM 5/4/2005: File #3 at line #65 encountered error
> > 0x00000002
> > CatalogDB: 4:05:23 PM 5/4/2005: File #3 at line #297 encountered error
> > 0x00000426
> > CatalogDB: 4:05:23 PM 5/4/2005: File #2 at line #2397 encountered error
> > 0x00000426
> > CatalogDB: 4:05:23 PM 5/4/2005: File #2 at line #815 encountered error
> > 0x00000426
> >
> > Possible explanation
> > -the system file checker isn't working correctly and not replacing all the
> > right files
> > -i might be missing update.inf as I can't seem to find it, but maybe that's
> > a result of cryptographic
> >
> > services being disabled
> > -i might be missing something important in the CatRoot folder, or something
> > is corrupted
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
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