WU error 8DDD0007

After updating windows update 4 to 5 and installing the sp2 I cannot access
the windows update site.

Windows update starts an shows error 0x8DDD0007; it says also:

a former update was not finished, restart your pc and reopen WUpdate.

But that leads to the error again.

I tried the solution in Knowledge base article 822798, but it doesn´t work.

thanks for help.

knut

I also had the same problem when I attempted the 'windows update' update.
After several posts and no one able to help, I gave up and did a system
restore. Maybe a fix will come out in a few months.

Steve


"Knut Weis" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> After updating windows update 4 to 5 and installing the sp2 I cannot
access
> the windows update site.
>
> Windows update starts an shows error 0x8DDD0007; it says also:
>
> a former update was not finished, restart your pc and reopen WUpdate.
>
> But that leads to the error again.
>
> I tried the solution in Knowledge base article 822798, but it doesn´t
work.
>
> thanks for help.
>
> knut
>
>
>

Knut Weis wrote:

> After updating windows update 4 to 5 and installing the sp2 I cannot access
> the windows update site.
>
> Windows update starts an shows error 0x8DDD0007; it says also:
>
> a former update was not finished, restart your pc and reopen WUpdate.
>
> But that leads to the error again.
>
> I tried the solution in Knowledge base article 822798, but it doesn´t work.
Hi

From Igor Franchuk:

<quote>
I've encountered the same problem as you did today. When searching
the Internet for the same error in hope for a ready solution in
some discussion forum I surfed over quite a few responses and none
of them were solutions.

After giving up I came up with a solution of our problem. It seems
like there was actually a mistake in the previous versions of
windows update.

After disassembling wuweb.dll that is responsible for webControl
update ActiveX object that is actually handling web based updates
I discovered the place where reboot required message is generated.
After looking in around the code I found that the condition
the message is generated is the presence or absence of

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion
\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update\RebootRequired

key.

If the key exists - the message is generated by that brand new v5
update and it fails to work further causing [Error number:
0x8DDD0007].

I assume this key was set up in my registry long ago by the when the
old automatic update (taskbar version) was uploading a new software
and failing to install it.

The solution then is simple remove the key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion
\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update\RebootRequired

so there would be only

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion
\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update

key without RebootRequired entry.

After I removed the key RebootRequired v5 update started to work
happily, and installed a new version of wuauclt.exe


</quote>


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