Re: Cannot intall any updates.

Start/Run and type in: regsvr32 wintrust.dll
Press enter and wait for the successful message

If that doesn't help

WINUP-Third-Party Products That Conflict with Windows Update
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;241234

http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/wufix.htm
Windows Update Fixes
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/updtcl.htm
Windows Update Checklist


"Ed" <> wrote in message
news:9522A159-91EC-4EAF-A10E-...
> Recently "Windows Updates" updated their web site, you may have noticed the
> new look and feel of the site. Before this I never had trouble downloading
> updates, after the new site was put up for the public I've had little success
> downloading updates. I sent in a report for assistance and was told to
> download SP2 from a different site directly to my desktop and then install,
> which worked fine, SP2 was loading and no problems. Yet I still couldn't
> download any updates from Windows Update's new site. I was told to try a
> recovery of my OS, that maybe some files had become corrupted. That little
> bit of advise cost me a PC crash and I lost all my stuff. Now up and running
> I go to Windows Update and the first file I download is SP2 which installs
> and so I think, problem solved. I download some security updates and was on
> the right track, but now all updates, no matter which one, will not download.
>
> It just pops up like it's going to download only to quickly pop up and tell
> me that it failed and was unseccessfull. Do I have something configed wrong,
> why wont it allow me to even download before it tells me it did not. I
> turned off my firewall, virus scan, and popup blocker, but still no sucess.
>
> Thanks for any help.

I have the same problem for the past few days, and I have tried everything
that Taurarian has described, including following the steps mentioned at the
telus.net website. But nothing helped! The updates downloads (including the
high priority updates and SP2), but do not install and I get "Unable to
install successfully" error message without any message number. Can someone
please help?

"Taurarian" wrote:

> Start/Run and type in: regsvr32 wintrust.dll
> Press enter and wait for the successful message
>
> If that doesn't help
>
> WINUP-Third-Party Products That Conflict with Windows Update
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;241234
>
> http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/wufix.htm
> Windows Update Fixes
> http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/updtcl.htm
> Windows Update Checklist
>
>
> "Ed" <> wrote in message
> news:9522A159-91EC-4EAF-A10E-...
> > Recently "Windows Updates" updated their web site, you may have noticed the
> > new look and feel of the site. Before this I never had trouble downloading
> > updates, after the new site was put up for the public I've had little success
> > downloading updates. I sent in a report for assistance and was told to
> > download SP2 from a different site directly to my desktop and then install,
> > which worked fine, SP2 was loading and no problems. Yet I still couldn't
> > download any updates from Windows Update's new site. I was told to try a
> > recovery of my OS, that maybe some files had become corrupted. That little
> > bit of advise cost me a PC crash and I lost all my stuff. Now up and running
> > I go to Windows Update and the first file I download is SP2 which installs
> > and so I think, problem solved. I download some security updates and was on
> > the right track, but now all updates, no matter which one, will not download.
> >
> > It just pops up like it's going to download only to quickly pop up and tell
> > me that it failed and was unseccessfull. Do I have something configed wrong,
> > why wont it allow me to even download before it tells me it did not. I
> > turned off my firewall, virus scan, and popup blocker, but still no sucess.
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
>
>

I also wouldnt mind knowing if all these download which total arond 97 MB is
just sitting on my harddrive somewhere.. if it is, I want to delete it. I
dont have much harddrive space as it is.

"aquarius" wrote:

> I have the same problem for the past few days, and I have tried everything
> that Taurarian has described, including following the steps mentioned at the
> telus.net website. But nothing helped! The updates downloads (including the
> high priority updates and SP2), but do not install and I get "Unable to
> install successfully" error message without any message number. Can someone
> please help?
>
> "Taurarian" wrote:
>
> > Start/Run and type in: regsvr32 wintrust.dll
> > Press enter and wait for the successful message
> >
> > If that doesn't help
> >
> > WINUP-Third-Party Products That Conflict with Windows Update
> > http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;241234
> >
> > http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/wufix.htm
> > Windows Update Fixes
> > http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/updtcl.htm
> > Windows Update Checklist
> >
> >
> > "Ed" <> wrote in message
> > news:9522A159-91EC-4EAF-A10E-...
> > > Recently "Windows Updates" updated their web site, you may have noticed the
> > > new look and feel of the site. Before this I never had trouble downloading
> > > updates, after the new site was put up for the public I've had little success
> > > downloading updates. I sent in a report for assistance and was told to
> > > download SP2 from a different site directly to my desktop and then install,
> > > which worked fine, SP2 was loading and no problems. Yet I still couldn't
> > > download any updates from Windows Update's new site. I was told to try a
> > > recovery of my OS, that maybe some files had become corrupted. That little
> > > bit of advise cost me a PC crash and I lost all my stuff. Now up and running
> > > I go to Windows Update and the first file I download is SP2 which installs
> > > and so I think, problem solved. I download some security updates and was on
> > > the right track, but now all updates, no matter which one, will not download.
> > >
> > > It just pops up like it's going to download only to quickly pop up and tell
> > > me that it failed and was unseccessfull. Do I have something configed wrong,
> > > why wont it allow me to even download before it tells me it did not. I
> > > turned off my firewall, virus scan, and popup blocker, but still no sucess.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help.
> >
> >

Joe wrote:

> I also wouldnt mind knowing if all these download which total
> arond 97 MB is just sitting on my harddrive somewhere.. if it is,
> I want to delete it. I dont have much harddrive space as it is.
Hi

You could clean out this folder (WU5's temporary download
folder) to get rid of temporary installation files from
your previous installation attempts:

%windir%\SoftwareDistribution\Download\

(%windir% is typically C:\Windows)


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Thank you all for your suggestions. I guess MS itself has not yet been able
to think up a solution to these woes, because I noticed in the posts of this
forum that even the MVPs in most cases could not come up with a solution to
similar problems, apart from pointing to some external websites. I tried
everything suggested in these posts, but nothing was of any help. So, in
order to resolve this once and for all, I did the final irretrievable step -
I backed up my data, swallowed my pride (in my computer), and reinstalled the
OS after reformating the hard disk. After I did that, ALL the updates,
including SP2, installed like a dream and my computer is running perfectly
again - Touch wood!