Re: Windows Updates Fail 0x80070052

"cpaluch" <> wrote in message
news:601AAECB-44C7-47AA-9587-
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> 2004-08-10 10:02:50 15:02:50 Success IUENGINE Installing SOFTWARE
> item from publisher com_microsoft
> 2004-08-10 10:02:50 15:02:50 Success IUENGINE Installer Command
> Type: EXE
> 2004-08-10 10:03:00 15:03:00 Error IUENGINE See iuhist.xml for
> details: Install finished (Error 0x80070052: The directory or file cannot be
> created.)
>
> These are the messages from the update.log. Don't know what directory or
> file it can't create. Also the iuhist.xml doesn't exist.


Perhaps that is the reason for the error?

Where are you looking for it?

FWIW I have it in: %ProgramFiles%\WindowsUpdate\V4\iuhist.xml

Hmm... backing up one level I see a bunch of *.xml files which
might be used to derive iuhist.xml. IOW iuhist.xml may only
be an artifact of the presentation of that information to the user.
Did you actually request to see the log before looking for it
on your harddrive?

One possible approach to testing that idea would be to use FileMon
(freeware from SysInternals) to monitor for: update
(assuming that that would catch references both to files in the above
directory and to the Windows Update.log file which we are quoting
from now.)


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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