Re: Error 0x80072EFD (YET AGAIN). Tried everything XP X64 (FIXED)
- From: Cliff <dont@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:00:25 GMT
I fought this for two days. I tried all the things MS knowledge base
said. I tried everything I could find on the net like additional
sites to add to the trusted list. Nothing worked.
Here is what finally fixed it for me:
I have ZoneAlarm configured to keep certain MS dlls/apps from
accessing the internet. That was not the problem. I would boot up
and disable ZoneAlarm before running WindowsUpdate to let them talk as
they needed. The problem was that once ZoneAlarm has kept these MS
dlls/apps from accessing the internet then even after you disable
ZoneAlarm they will never try again (during that boot up).
They try once on boot up and if they fail, even if you disable
ZoneAlarm, they will never try again like when you go to
WindowsUpdate.
I marked all the MS stuff as allowed to access the internet, rebooted,
and WindowsUpdate worked fine.
I would recommend that you disable outbound "phone home" firewalls and
anti-virus while accessing WindowsUpdate. This was easy for me as my
LAN is well protected from the internet but those with direct
connections to the internet that rely entirely on personal firewalls
must be careful not to expose themselves.
The MS program in question was "Generic Host Process" (or possibly
"Services and Controller app") and it would probably work to just give
this guy full access to the internet for the duration of the
WindowsUpdate.
I understand that there may be a similar issue with Norton (NIS?)
firewalling these MS programs.
Cliff
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 14:39:03 -0800, Paulwh
<Paulwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Well, I finally sorted my problem with the 80072EFD error.
>
>I had been disabling the nVidia nForce Firewall that comes with my Asus
>A8N-SLI Deluxe nForce4 Motherboard, to no avail. I am also running McAfee
>Enterprise Version 8.0i antivirus software, which has limited port blocking
>capabilities. When I disabled this software Windows Update performed
>perfectly. So maybe you can learn something for my situation.
>
>"Paulwh" wrote:
>
>> Thanks for trying Steve, I'm running XP X64, so uninstalling SP2 doesn't apply
>>
>> "SteveL" wrote:
>>
>> > Try this, a little bit of work but it may be worth a shot.
>> > Uninstall SP2, re-install it and try again.
>> >
>> > "Paulwh" wrote:
>> >
>> > > Windows update was working fine in 32bit mode. I had to do a system restore
>> > > and since then the updates haven't worked. I went back to the earlier restore
>> > > point but it still doesn't work. I tried everything suggested in The KB, but
>> > > it's still not working. There's only one entry in my hosts file: 127.0.0.1
>> > > localhost. I applied a registry fix, as posted on this forum, no use. I'm
>> > > pretty desperate to get the updates working again as X64 is so buggy.
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