Re: Error number: 0x80248011

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"Shaden" <Shaden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:680AFB56-1656-4E88-95DA-23BE52D9D9D0@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
....
(probably read an old thread of the same name
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?&query=0x80248011+cynborg&lang=en&cr=US&guid=&sloc=en-us&dg=microsoft.public.windowsupdate&p=1&tid=545258ed-e3ad-4332-a10a-2b11dbcb61d0

where TaurArian pointed to three articles

http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/v5consumer/showarticle.aspx?articleid=21&ln=en

which contains the instruction
<quote>
After Stopping the Service please rename the folder c:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution
</quote>

and KB883821

which used to contain instuctions to clear the IE cache
but now contains the instructions to delete the entire SoftwareDistribution
subdirectory (which, if done naively immediately after the previous rename
operation would fail).

and a link to Marc Liron's troubleshooter for this error code
which essentially contains the instructions that KB883821 used to contain
and which TaurArian mostly reproduced anyway at the bottom of her reply.

)


> When ever I try to use the auto windows update I get my comp scanned, then I
> click on express or custome install for recommended or important downloads
> and I get the error message Error number: 0x80248011. I have tried the online
> fix but was unable to change the name of the file it says to change, nor
> access the new file they say I need.

Please describe your problem symptoms more clearly.
I have only been able to infer half of what you are even looking at.


> Can anyone give simple easy to follow
> step by step instructions on what to do to fix this?

You're not going to find much more clearer "step by step instructions"
than in the above article whose link I quoted above.
If you need help interpreting the instructions it is up to you to explain
what your difficulty is with them.


> Running windows XP with
> SP2 installed. never had this problem before the SP2 was installed.
> Thanks for the help.

That's common after that upgrade particularly if you had been using
the V5 link (aka WUv5) before with an older version of Windows.

BTW there has recently been a further upgrade from WUv5 to WUv6
(V6) which should be more compatible than the some of the previous
transitions but could conceivably cause the same sorts of issues and
require the same resolutions. Please indicate which version of WU
that you think you are using (e.g. by posting the URL which appears
in your Address bar if you're not sure).


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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