Re: Windows Update error 0x800A01AD

From: Taurarian (taurarianREMOVECAPS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:25:38 +1000

http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/troubleshoot/
Windows Update site displays Initialization error 0x800A01AD.
Windows Update.log has error 0x80040154
Applies to: Win2000, Win98, Win98SE, WinME & WinXP
or
When searching for available updates on the Windows XP update site, you see the
OX800A01AD while looking for available updates
http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/v5consumer/showarticle.aspx?articleid=13&ln=en
or
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=883821
You may receive an error message when you search for available updates on the Windows
Update Web site

"Averil" <Averil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:22A16C48-0EB6-4E2C-AF79-617135A4843E@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> Been trying to find a fix for this for a few days now, just discovered this
> forum and now working through the suggested fixes I've found in the posts.
> So far I've re-enabled Automatic Updates and BITS and checked the permissions
> for Administrator and System, both without success. Just tried to delete the
> contents of the Software Distribution folder but there's a file called
> ReportingEvents.log which I can't delete - get a message that it's in use by
> another programme though I've closed all open programmes.
> Also, for the last couple of days my cursor has been driving me nuts,
> changing to the 'busy' eggtimer every 15 secs for three or four secs - when I
> check running processes I've seen that this coincides with wuactl.exe cutting
> in and out, and it's been happening since I reregistered some WU dll files.
> I reregistered them because it was suggested as a fix for the first problem I
> had, getting the new version of the WU software installed. It worked for
> that, but now get the 0x800A01AD error when I scan for updates.
> I've checked the Windows Update log and no error messages there, but no
> reference to v5 either .... I've copied the last few entries below.
> I'm running XP Home.
> Grateful for any help,
> Thanks,
> Averil
>

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