good job microsoft, you screw your paying customers again.

The inquirer has more info and links from their report on how to deal with the issue.

must Buy Vista


i Have No Choice Now


thank You Microsoft For Taking Away My Money

AHAHHAHAAHAHHA

A buddy at work just formated his work pc (usually a no-no) because he couldn't do updates....and what a surprise he had tried to do a repair earlier in the week...bet he wishes he waited a week instead of bugging the IT department :laugh:

your best bet to guard against M$'s attempts to trick people into upgrading is top buy norton Ghost 12 and use that system restore feature instead.

repair usally f@cks up the pc, more than it already is

If it gets to the point that I have to do a repair install to log into Windows, I never have to use MS Update anyway. Once the repair is over, and I boot into Windows, I back up all my important stuff, and reformat. If Windows was so screwed to need a repair install, it was probably time to redo it anyway.

what a joke, as if this problem isnt fixable

i have witnessed this problem when using the repair/reinstall option form the windows setup cd to fix a broken xp install and their is an easy fix:
when auto updates all fail thanks to the xp cd make this batch file which will re-register all nessecary services for making auto updates work, you may need to re download the updates by deleting the software distro folder but even that is unlikly.

net stop wuauserv
net stop cryptsvc
regsvr32 wuweb.dll
regsvr32 wups2.dll
regsvr32 wups.dll
regsvr32 wucltui.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng1.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng.dll
regsvr32 wuapi.dll
regsvr32 wups.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng.dll
regsvr32 wucltui.dll
regsvr32 wuweb.dll
regsvr32 msxml.dll
regsvr32 msxml2.dll
regsvr32 msxml3.dll
regsvr32 urlmon.dll
regsvr32 softpub.dll
regsvr32 initpki.dll
regsvr32 mssip32.dll
regsvr32 wintrust.dll
regsvr32 dssenh.dll
regsvr32 rsaenh.dll
regsvr32 gpkcsp.dll
regsvr32 sccbase.dll
regsvr32 slbcsp.dll
regsvr32 cryptdlg.dll
regsvr32 jscript.dll
net start wuauserv
net start cryptsvc


click ok a bunch of times initpki.dll tends to take a little longer to re-register.
reboot your xp machine
install the updates with no dramas
(please dont flame me i just noticed a couple of peoply having a cry about having to buy vista, what a load of poo)

qwerty_leshplease dont flame me i just noticed a couple of peoply having a cry about having to buy vista, what a load of poo

I think it was sarcasm ;)

thanked

Lol, at least they did something about it fairly quickly.

Well, its not like it was planned and its easily fixable