Windows XP SP3 Causes Windows Update to Fail

Posted on November 5, 2008
Filed Under Troubleshooting, Windows, XP

I’ve had this happen on a number of systems now, where installing Windows XP SP3 will cause Windows/Microsoft/Automatic Update to fail.

Thanks to Ron Crumbaker, a simple fix is all that is needed. The steps are listed below, the actual commands are in bold.

1. Stop Automatic Updates service – net stop wuauserv
2. Register wups2.dll – regsvr32 %windir%\system32\wups2.dll
3. Restart Automatic Updates service – net start wuauserv

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