Window Update Service fails with 0x80070032 error

I have a Windows XP SP 2 system. Automatic Updates service will not start.
In the WindowsUpdate Log file, here is the error:

WU client version 7.2.6001.788
FATAL: Failed to initialize with error 0x80070032 from component Proxy manager

We are using a WSUS server. When I try to manually download the updates at
Http://update.microsoft.com, I get the same problem. The website tries to
download a new client, but fails to start the service.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thank you

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BryanLee999999 wrote:
> I have a Windows XP SP 2 system. Automatic Updates service will not
> start.
> In the WindowsUpdate Log file, here is the error:
>
> WU client version 7.2.6001.788
> FATAL: Failed to initialize with error 0x80070032 from component Proxy
> manager
>
> We are using a WSUS server. When I try to manually download the updates
> at
> Http://update.microsoft.com, I get the same problem. The website tries to
> download a new client, but fails to start the service.
>
> Any help is much appreciated.
>
> Thank you

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <> wrote in message
news:...

> [[ Forwarded to WSUS newsgroup
> (microsoft.public.windows.server.update_services) via crosspost as a
> convenience to OP ]]

>> I have a Windows XP SP 2 system. Automatic Updates service will not
>> start.

>> In the WindowsUpdate Log file, here is the error:
>> WU client version 7.2.6001.788
>> FATAL: Failed to initialize with error 0x80070032 from component Proxy
>> manager

>> When I try to manually download the updates at
>> Http://update.microsoft.com, I get the same problem. The website tries
>> to
>> download a new client, but fails to start the service.

This is a =WUA= issue, if not just a general client networking issue, but
certainly not a WSUS issue, and it's unfortunate that the message is being
forwarded to the WSUS group rather than being handled as the
agent/networking issue that it is.

I found several instances of the error code 0x80070032 via a Google search,
but none related to the WUA (except clones of this thread on other webforums
sites). What I did notice, though, was a general theme running through all
of the threads, and that was that the issue related to either service issues
(services disabled/not started) or winsock issues.

Taking from one thread at
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/23...-hang-starting
which actually has a WUA demonstrating this issue (though the thread is
about other service startup issues), the resolution was to reset winsock.

NETSH WINSOCK RESET

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