RE: New windows update version doesnt work

Bobio,

You're going to love this. I had the same problem, now fixed. Seems that,
for some reason, a number of windows update .dll files aren't being
registered. My final fix that seemed to work is the following, done in the
c:%WINDIR%\system32 directory from the CMD window: (p.s. - do a windows
restore point first, if it doesn't work!)

regsvr32 wuapi.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng1.dll
regsvr32 wucltui.dll
regsvr32 wups.dll
regsvr32 wuweb.dll
regsvr32 iuengine.dll

Before you do this, you might want to check version numbers. There's at
least one post where, apparently, somebody in the know asked for version
numbers on the above files. Most of them are at .2182, but wuauserv.dll was
at .2180 for me and at least one other poster.

Once the above was performed on my system, which had been hanging as you
describe, everything worked like a champ.
K. Becker


"Bobio" wrote:

> Whenever I go to the windows update site, it comes up with the new screen.
> However, it stays frozen saying
> "Checking for the latest version of the Windows Update software...
>
> Depending on your connection speed, this might take a minute. During this
> time, you may receive one or more security warnings. Review each security
> warning to ensure that the content is signed by Microsoft, and then click
> Install or Yes to install the software."
>
> This was after I installed the software the first time. I tried
> reinstalling it, but it gets stuck on a screen saying
> "Windows Update is downloading and installing the updated software
>
>
> Registering: 100%..."
>
> Ive never actually got an error message, but it is just unable to load
> windows update. What should I do?

"Col. Firefly" <Col. > wrote in message
news:CD988840-43EF-4CC0-AC8F-...
> It seems to have fixed the problem I had with the Automatic Updates tab in
> System Properties from hanging, but the Windows Update site is still out of
> commission.

Rather vague symptom description. Check your WindowsUpdate.log
for clues and more detail.


>
> However, the last command (iuengine.dll) you have didn't return a positive
> result for me. It said it couldn't register the module because it couldn't
> find the entry point.


That's what I would expect. DependencyWalker shows that
iuengine.dll (at least in XPsp2RTM) has entry points for neither
DllRegisterServer nor DllInstall.


K. Becker,

Where did the list originate and for which OS?


Robert Aldwinckle
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>
> "K. Becker" wrote:
>
>> Bobio,
>>
>> You're going to love this. I had the same problem, now fixed. Seems that,
>> for some reason, a number of windows update .dll files aren't being
>> registered. My final fix that seemed to work is the following, done in the
>> c:%WINDIR%\system32 directory from the CMD window: (p.s. - do a windows
>> restore point first, if it doesn't work!)
>>
>> regsvr32 wuapi.dll
>> regsvr32 wuaueng.dll
>> regsvr32 wuaueng1.dll
>> regsvr32 wucltui.dll
>> regsvr32 wups.dll
>> regsvr32 wuweb.dll
>> regsvr32 iuengine.dll

....