Re: error code 0x80004002

When you do a repair on Windows XP, the repair process only initializes your
system based on the repair information. All other information is removed.

The Update service has been modified since SP2. Keys have been added to the
registry and/or replaced.

First check if the Automatic Updates and BITS is set to be Automatic and are
both started in SERVICE.MSC. If not, start them and try update.

If still error:

First this is what I'd do (since you already re-registered the support
DLLS):

1. Stop services Automatic Updates and BITS in SERVICES.MSC
2. Remove the C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution folder ... the whole thing.
It will be re-created automatically by Windows/Microsoft update.
3. Remove the BITS data files under C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Downloader\*.dat
4. Clean out all Event Viewer logs (EVENTVWR.MSC)

The following key may be screwed up:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SvcHost
in the right panel, there is an entry for netsvcs.
Double click on it and make sure that BITS and wuauserv are both in the list
(scroll all the way down).

If they are missing, add them separately on a line to themselves

Reboot.

Check Services and see if Automatic Update and BITS are started. Both
should be set to Automatic.

"Rainer" <> wrote in message
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> Due to filesystem check errors at boot time, I had to repair my windows xp
> installation using a windows xp / SP2 DVD. The repair was done
> successfully.
> Since that time I cannot update my pc from our local windows update server
> any longer: the error displayed in windowsupdate.log is
> -----
> 2006-12-15 14:52:05:638 844 e24 Misc =========== Logging initialized
> (build: 7.0.5451.90, tz: +0100) ===========
> 2006-12-15 14:52:05:638 844 e24 Misc = Process:
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\wuauclt.exe
> 2006-12-15 14:52:05:638 844 e24 AUClnt FATAL: Error: 0x80004002. wuauclt
> handler: failed to spawn COM server
> 2006-12-15 14:52:05:638 412 d08 Handler FATAL: 0x80004002: ERROR: Remote
> update handler container process created (PID: 844), but exited before
> signaling event
> 2006-12-15 14:52:05:842 412 d08 Agent * WARNING: Exit code = 0x80004002
> -----
> Following the hints given in this discussion group I tried
> net.exe stop wuauserv
> regsvr32.exe wuapi.dll
> regsvr32.exe wups.dll
> regsvr32.exe wuaueng.dll
> regsvr32.exe wucltui.dll
> regsvr32.exe MSXML3.dll
> net.exe start wuauserv
> without success.
> Rebooting the system did not help.
> Then I reinstalled SP2 again and repeated what I had done before, also
> without success.
> Now there are about 65 patches waiting for installation. What can I do
> else?
>
>