Re: Windows Updates fail with error 80246008

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My pleasure. :-)

Justin H.

krg73 wrote: 
Thank you so much Justin H.  I was about at my wits end.  Thanks you,
Thank you, Thank you!!!!!

Bob W wrote:

Thank you for your help.  Wasted weeks fussing with this on and off, with
daily input from various lists and someone in MS Support/Help/something, all
to no avail.  The Norton connection, and your suggestions have things working
again in just a few minutes.  They need wider distribution.

Thanks again,
Bob

"Justin H." wrote:


Justin H. wrote:

Hello,

I've been working on what several problems and have run into a brick
wall trying to get windows updates to work.  I get the error 0x80246008
on all updates.  It seems that BITS isn't starting because of error
0x80070002.  I've tried everything I could find on the BITS error, but
nothing works that I've tried.  If it helps, in one of the steps I
tried, which involved deleting files from C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Downloader, that the directory
is remaining empty.  Whether or not that has anything to do with it, I
don't know.

Any suggestions are gratefully accepted. 

I've come back to this every now and again, and I finally fixed this one
last night.  I pursued some avenues based on some of the other symptoms
I was experiencing, such as Search not being fully functional.

In the end, I'm not sure which of the two procedures did it, but here
they are.  In an attempt to fix search, I did the following:

regsvr32 oleaut32.dll
regsvr32 jscript.dll
regsvr32 vbscript.dll
regsvr32 msxml.dll

And in an attempt to fix possible problems with security providers I
also did the following:

regsvr32 softpub.dll
regsvr32 wintrust.dll
regsvr32 initpki.dll
regsvr32 cryptdlg.dll

After a reboot, I now have BITS up and running and have successfully
used Windows Updates.

Thanks for the help, and I hope this helps others.

Justin H.



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