Windows update refused to install WGA: error 0x80072efe

I get message claiming I need to install 1 component,
the Windows Genune Disadvantage INVALIDATION tool.

UNFORTUNATELY, it hangs when trying to install this one USELESS component
with an error 0x80072efe.

grrr...how do I get past thisi point? I need WGA to screw w/my system, but
it won't install due to errors with the BETA version in MS's software.

Buy a new computer, fresh out of box, and it won't run Win-up(down)grade due
to some bogus BETA quality product (not that their released products are very
stable).....

Help???!?
:-(

0x80072EFE
ERROR_INTERNET_CONNECTION_ABORTED - The connection with the server has been
terminated

To get more help on proxycfg if you need to configure it to use a proxy
server or Internet Explorer's settings: proxycfg -?

If you don't have a proxy, you will need status Direct access (no proxy
server).
To set direct access: proxycfg -d


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"WGA-failure" <WGA-> wrote in message
news:A2EF3786-545D-4866-9346-...
>I get message claiming I need to install 1 component,
> the Windows Genune Disadvantage INVALIDATION tool.
>
> UNFORTUNATELY, it hangs when trying to install this one USELESS component
> with an error 0x80072efe.
>
> grrr...how do I get past thisi point? I need WGA to screw w/my system,
> but
> it won't install due to errors with the BETA version in MS's software.
>
> Buy a new computer, fresh out of box, and it won't run Win-up(down)grade
> due
> to some bogus BETA quality product (not that their released products are
> very
> stable).....
>
> Help???!?
> :-(
>
>

Woe...cool...can't believe I haven't heard of this proxycfg -- I would have
thought it took settings from IE automatically -- not need a "proxycfg -u" to
copy te current users settings....

I've been slogging at things trying to work around the auto-update,
downloading things manually. I was able to download "GenuineCheck" and get
codes good for about 1-2 minutes worth of download time (~1-4 downloads).

While doing so, noticed new problem that may be reason why win-update and
msmoney won't work on this new machine.

For some reason, download in a web browser (tried 3 browsers to see if there
was a difference: IE from XP2, FireFox & Opera) -- all of them are configured
to use proxy (from "per-user settings"), but all are having problems
downloading "largish" packages.

Anything over ~ 2-3Meg, has been hanging after downloading the first
~2Meg. It's not hanging at the same point each time. Using the command
line tool "wget" I would usually get around 2.1-2.3Megdownloaded successfully
before it would hang.

Logging into proxy server, and running wget (still going through proxy), I
could download complete binaries, no problem, but the new SP2 machine is
being flakey in larger downloads. Maybe some TCP/IP setting, or maybe
symptom of some other problem.

Am also having spuradic lost keys when typing -- maybe 1% oress, of the time
-- but only on the new computer. Am also getting quite a few illegal memory
referencs when quitting out of MMC's and other things (but not entirely
consistently). I made sure DEP was off for standard programs, to try for
some compatibility, but that doesn't seem to be the problem.

Have't set up a new computer from scratch for a couple of years, being
"forced" to SP2 at same time (was die-hard SP1 user) hasn't helped.

Thanks for proxycfg ... is there a GUI option for setting that? I really
don't remembr setting that in my last computer unless it was through the
registry -- though it might have copied settings from earlier installs of
Win2K & Win98 (though those were over 4 years ago!)...

Weird -- my copy of "GenuineCheck.exe" seems to have been deleted!
Had multiple copies of it in separate directories and they are all gone.
Another mystery to be solved...sigh...who said getting a new computer was
fun...:-(