After the installation of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), you might face some trouble with the Automatic Updates feature in Windows XP. In my case, I wasn’t able to install new updates.
An example of the error I got was:
Security Update for Windows XP with Windows Media Format Runtime 9.5 and 11 (KB941569) failed
The solution for this problem is re-registering some DLL-files. The steps below fix the problem if auto updates fail after a fresh install of Windows XP SP3
Open Start, Run, and run these commands, one by one:
regsvr32 /s wuapi.dll
regsvr32 /s wuaueng1.dll
regsvr32 /s wuaueng.dll
regsvr32 /s wucltui.dll
regsvr32 /s wups2.dll
regsvr32 /s wups.dll
regsvr32 /s wuweb.dll
You can also open Notepad, paste the above commands, save the file as RepairAU.bat, and run RepairAU.bat. This should save you approximaticaly 20 seconds of your lifetime :-)
Next time you open Windows Update / Microsoft Update, you should have no problems installing new updates.
Note: I surely believe Microsoft feels very sorry for this bug in SP3, and they really want to offer a hotfix for this problem, but since this hotfix would be offered by Automatic Updates, that won’t make much sense :-)
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on Jul 31st, 2008 at 10:27 am
excellent. thanks for your smart contribution. god bless you more everyday.
on Jul 31st, 2008 at 9:39 pm
I’m suffering same problem for several days.
I really appreciate for your tip.
on Aug 1st, 2008 at 1:51 am
I think this is going to work. Thanks
on Aug 1st, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Thank you very much for ur post. I just ran it like u said and it worked great.
on Aug 3rd, 2008 at 2:13 am
Thank you! You saved me from pulling my hair out (at least what I have left)!
on Aug 8th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Great, this fixed my problem!
on Aug 10th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Thanks m8!
on Aug 13th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Very good,
I had the suspect it was for Sp3.. but
I wouldn’t belive it
Thank you :-)
on Aug 13th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Brilliant! I’ve been looking for a solution for two months since I installed SP3 on my HP laptop. None of them worked, but this one did, and now I’m up to date. Thanks a bunch!
on Aug 16th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Awesome. Worked perfectly. Too bad Microsoft hasn’t figured a way to put this in their help section. Thanks!
on Aug 19th, 2008 at 5:32 am
Beautiful! that’s a huge life saver!!! you’re my hero.
on Aug 20th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Thank you so much!!
:notworthy:
on Aug 22nd, 2008 at 7:54 am
Tnx :P 8)7
on Aug 23rd, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Add my Thank You Very Much to the rest. But, I wonder why the problem exists on some XP SP3 installations, but not the other? For example, my old Toshiba laptop hasn’t had the problem; but, my new MacMini BootCamp XP SP3 install update did?
on Aug 23rd, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Richard,
thank you for your comment. Although I’m not sure, I can imagine that it has something to do with the version of the Automatic Update client. For example, I had installed the Microsoft Update (the extended version of Windows Update). In addition, it may be possible that multiple versions of the Windows Update client work with the Microsoft site. So to make myself more clear: version 1.0 is required, but the newest version is 1.03, which will also work with the Windows Update website.
So the kind of Update client (Windows/Microsoft) as well as the version number of the client could explain the fact that some people have the problem while others don’t experience a problem at all.
on Aug 24th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Thanks!
Happy that peoples like you exists on tis Earth :)
on Aug 25th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Great fix, been looking at MS fixes for a week and was starting to run out of patience. Had not come accross itexperience.net before but will check it in the future.
Thanks for sharing a fix that must have been fairly time consuming.
on Aug 27th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Thank you thank you thank you.
I echo Andrew’s sentiments, “Too bad Microsoft hasn’t figured a way to put this in their help section.”
Thank goodness for Google – that’s how I found your fix!
on Aug 28th, 2008 at 8:58 am
GOLD!! That was really pi$$ing me off. Thanks.
on Sep 2nd, 2008 at 1:54 pm
You’re a lifesaver!
MS really needs to get this toghether.
on Sep 6th, 2008 at 9:21 am
This is awesome… i was like… OMG… i don’t want to have to download and install every one of these. Then I found your site, re-applied the dll’s and vioala!
on Sep 8th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Fixed five pc’s with this all in one shot – thanks much!
on Sep 11th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Thanks worked like a charm!
on Sep 13th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
WOW! A 100% Works! Awesome Tip! A Million Thanks! :-))
on Sep 14th, 2008 at 1:53 am
What a quick and easy fix for that persistent and annoying update problem. Thank you!
on Sep 14th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Thank you so much.
Looked around at MS support sites found nothing.
Tried google – found this – did it – worked!
on Sep 21st, 2008 at 2:36 am
Great fix! Unfortunately I have to do this everytime I try to update something. It doesn’t fix things once and for all. :/
on Sep 28th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Thanks a lot!! it worked like a charm!
on Nov 7th, 2008 at 6:26 am
Thank you very much for ur post & sharing a fix that must have been fairly time consuming.god bless you more everyday.
on Nov 17th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Hello,
When trying to put my laptop in to standby or hibernate, lately, I get eht following message:
The service ‘Microsoft .Net Framework v.1.0.3705 Update’ is preventing the machine from entering standby. Try stopping this service and try again.
Now I can only shut down my machine. Please help. What do I do to make Standby and Hibernate work again?
Thanks.
on Nov 21st, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Just because Automatic Updates can’t deploy it doesn’t mean they shouldn’t offer a patch. Microsoft are some proper w4nkers for forcing others to do their work for them. Last time I checked, their software wasn’t open source! >:(
on Dec 23rd, 2008 at 6:45 pm
I have had this same problem but with one difference: I run XP64 and the problem started when I updated to SP2. XP 64 does not have a SP3 available.
Would anyone know if my problem wuld this be the same issue?
Thanks,
on Dec 23rd, 2008 at 6:53 pm
I think I just found my answer here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144
Imagine an answer from Microsoft. I’ll let you know if it actually works.
on Feb 27th, 2009 at 10:47 am
tyvvm this reAlly helped me
now all i need to do if i get that problem again is run the bat
and im done !!!!!!