Re: windows update 898461 continously fails with error 0x8007f001

ThorstenB,

According to KB898461:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/898461

The files for the Package Installer for Windows are installed in the following folder:
%windir%\System32\PreInstall\WinSE\WXP_%lcid%_v1
Note The placeholder %windir% represents the location of the Windows system directory. The placeholder %lcid% represents the language identifier for the operating system that the computer is running. For more information about language identifiers, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/intl/nls_8xo3.asp
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The following files are installed in this folder:
• Update.exe.ref
• Updspapi.dll.ref
• Spuninst.exe.ref
• Spcustom.dll.ref
• Spmsg.dll.ref
• Spupdsvc.exe.ref

First, show hidden files, folders, and system files :
http://www.xtra.co.nz/help/0,,4155-1916458,00.html

Then navigate to the WXP_%lcid%_v1 folder located at

WINDOWS\system32\PreInstall\WinSE

The folder for German (Germany) should be named :

wxp_x86_0407_v1

There are other German versions as shown on this page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/intl/nls_238z.asp

For the following German versions, these should be the corresponding number (%lcid%)of the folder :

German (Austria)- 0c07
German (Liechtenstein)- 1407
German (Luxembourg)- 1007
German (Switzerland)- 0807

What is the number of the wxp_x86_xxxx_v1 folder ?

The other language identifier is present in the Update.inf file of the update package. From where did you obtain the update ?


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ThorstenB wrote:
Hi,

I have a german version of Windows XP. Since a couple of months (I cannot remeber it exactly) I cannot install any updates from update.microsoft.com: express as well as custom search always want to install update 898461 which continously fails with error 0x8007f001 since windows update somehow wants to install the english version of 898461 (which does not work on a german windows xp).

I have manually installed the german version of 898461, but windows update still wants to install the english version of 898461 before installing any other updates (windowsupdate.log states a total of 18 updates detected).

So, why does windows update detect a missing english version of 898461? How can I circumvent to install this update (since the german version of 898461 is already installed manually)?

Has anyone any idea? Deleting the SoftwareDistribution folder did not help. Neither did a search on the net.
(I think the whole think was trigger when I had a chinese-language-learning programm installed which may have changed some settings/and or replaced some files which trigger windows update into failure..)

Thanks for your help,
Thorsten
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