Updates: the simple fix for me.

I'm no techie, but I read a lot last week when we were having various
trouble-symptoms after installing anew or re-installing Windows XP atop
itself. Some cases had ~76 updates we could not install; others had ~95;
still others had ~ 36 and even as few as 9 and 4.
The following is something I tried after finding it on a ng forum. Hope
it helps others--if it does, PLEASE read other posts and copy/paste the
procedure in answer to them (as well as back here to let others know if it
worked for your symptoms or not), as since it was a simple fix for me, it
may be also for others.

"I have just tried the suggestion below, recommended by Bob ((leanin' cedar)
in a previous email on this site (see Joe Medford - 8.10.07) - it worked.

1. Click on Start and then click Run,
2. In the open field type "REGSVR32 WUAPI.DLL" (without quotation marks) and
press Enter.
3. When you receive the "DllRegisterServer in WUAPI.DLL succeeded" message,
click OK.
4. Please repeat these steps for each of the following commands:
REGSVR32 WUAUENG.DLL
REGSVR32 WUAUENG1.DLL
REGSVR32 ATL.DLL
REGSVR32 WUCLTUI.DLL
REGSVR32 WUPS.DLL
REGSVR32 WUPS2.DLL
REGSVR32 WUWEB.DLL"......Good luck to all, s

sdlomi2 added these comments in the current discussion du jour
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> I'm no techie, but I read a lot last week when we were
> having various
> trouble-symptoms after installing anew or re-installing
> Windows XP atop itself. Some cases had ~76 updates we could
> not install; others had ~95; still others had ~ 36 and even as
> few as 9 and 4.
> The following is something I tried after finding it on a
> ng forum. Hope
> it helps others--if it does, PLEASE read other posts and
> copy/paste the procedure in answer to them (as well as back
> here to let others know if it worked for your symptoms or
> not), as since it was a simple fix for me, it may be also for
> others.
>
> "I have just tried the suggestion below, recommended by Bob
> ((leanin' cedar) in a previous email on this site (see Joe
> Medford - 8.10.07) - it worked.

Thanks for posting this, I'm going to save it in the event of
trouble. I would caution you, though, in misusing what appear to
be Registry Service DLLs unless you really need to. Yes, yes,
yes, I know I'm overly cautious, but I'm also trouble-free and I
like life that way. <grin>

> 1. Click on Start and then click Run,
> 2. In the open field type "REGSVR32 WUAPI.DLL" (without
> quotation marks) and press Enter.
> 3. When you receive the "DllRegisterServer in WUAPI.DLL
> succeeded" message, click OK.
> 4. Please repeat these steps for each of the following
> commands: REGSVR32 WUAUENG.DLL
> REGSVR32 WUAUENG1.DLL
> REGSVR32 ATL.DLL
> REGSVR32 WUCLTUI.DLL
> REGSVR32 WUPS.DLL
> REGSVR32 WUPS2.DLL
> REGSVR32 WUWEB.DLL"......Good luck to all, s

--
HP, aka Jerry

I had the same problem and cured it by start>control panel>security> then
changing Automatic Update to "Download updates for me, but let me choose when
to install them"
The downloads then installed.
I think the root of the problem is that by default the Automatic Update
install was set to 03:00 which meant that any downloads carried had to wait
for the correct time to install. This was evident from looking at the Windows
update log, so I have now changed this to19:00

"sdlomi2" wrote:

> I'm no techie, but I read a lot last week when we were having various
> trouble-symptoms after installing anew or re-installing Windows XP atop
> itself. Some cases had ~76 updates we could not install; others had ~95;
> still others had ~ 36 and even as few as 9 and 4.
> The following is something I tried after finding it on a ng forum. Hope
> it helps others--if it does, PLEASE read other posts and copy/paste the
> procedure in answer to them (as well as back here to let others know if it
> worked for your symptoms or not), as since it was a simple fix for me, it
> may be also for others.
>
> "I have just tried the suggestion below, recommended by Bob ((leanin' cedar)
> in a previous email on this site (see Joe Medford - 8.10.07) - it worked.
>
> 1. Click on Start and then click Run,
> 2. In the open field type "REGSVR32 WUAPI.DLL" (without quotation marks) and
> press Enter.
> 3. When you receive the "DllRegisterServer in WUAPI.DLL succeeded" message,
> click OK.
> 4. Please repeat these steps for each of the following commands:
> REGSVR32 WUAUENG.DLL
> REGSVR32 WUAUENG1.DLL
> REGSVR32 ATL.DLL
> REGSVR32 WUCLTUI.DLL
> REGSVR32 WUPS.DLL
> REGSVR32 WUPS2.DLL
> REGSVR32 WUWEB.DLL"......Good luck to all, s
>
>
>