"michaud" <> wrote in message news

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>I get the same error, were you able to find a fix?
Probably. <g>
Try a search?
<
http://groups.google.com/groups?num=....windowsupdate >
(Google Groups search for
8024402C OR 0x8024402C MSFT OR MVP group:microsoft.*.windowsupdate
)
This search was sorted by date to try to show the latest thinking
about this symptom. Notice that the logs tend to show that this is
may be a summarizing error code and possibly misleading us about
a real cause. It looks as if ultimately it could be another case of
interference by a user's firewall.
Good luck
Robert Aldwinckle
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> "jslc" wrote:
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>> I tried to install SP2 for Windows xp on my stand alone machine and get this
>> error messase installation failure Error Code: 8024402C