RE: Updates fail: no path to cryptsvc

Hello Russell,


Just a shot in the dark - but try the free DJLizard program called DialAFix
to reregister all the Windows Update stuff.

Doesn't hurt to try

Dial-a-Fix, will sort out your download prob.and
some others if you need,.....

Go ahead and download Dial-a-Fix.


<http://wiki.djlizard.net/Dial-a-fix>


Scroll down about 2/3 of the way to Download Dial-ª-fix

Reboot into safe mºde (F-8)

Click the green checkmark and click Go.

After it has finished,

Reboot


Can you go to Windows Update, select Express (Get high-priority updates),
and apply all offered updates

<http://www.update.microsoft.com>


Let us know what happens.

Come back and let everyone here know the results.


Ǝиçεl
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"Russell May" wrote:

> I discovered my wife's Dell Dimension 3000 (3.0GB P4, Windows XP Home
> SP3, 512MB RAM, 160GB HD) fails to install any windows updates since
> Feb.11, 2009. I traced this down to cryptsvc not being started because
> there is no path to it. The "Run - services.msc - Cryptographic
> Services - Properties - path to executable" window is blank and grayed
> out. I cannot insert the proper path. The Startup Type is Automatic
> and the service is not started.
>
> Please suggest how I can edit the "path to executable" window so I can
> restore the capability to update.
>
> She and I both have administrative privileges.
>
> This might be coincidental but it happened shortly before the first
> update failed: Her original 80GB HD seemed to be getting flakey so I
> replaced it with a 160GB WDC HD on Jan.31 by ghosting the 80GB drive
> to an external drive and then ghosting that back to the 160GB drive.
>
>