Re: COMAPI FATAL: Unable to connect to the service (hr=80080005)
- From: "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:35:30 -0500
Why are you replying to yourself?
You've got enough problems. I wouldn't add to them by installing beta software (i.e., IE8 RC1)!
Was Norton 360 running in the background and was Spybot's Tea Timer and/or Ad-Aware's Guard and/or Ad-Watch services enabled when you installed WinXP SP3? ...IE8 RC1?
sbc wrote:
oh great .. thank you so much for replying ... I have been going thru so<SNIP>
many of these .. so that yesterday I ran the malicious software tool
completely (took quite a while so I think it worked) and it came up with
nothing ... I am going to go thru your whole list .. I just wanted to add
in ... and I am sorry but I have been working at this somewhat desperately
lately ... I just about feel like giving up and I am working hard at TRYING
EVERYTHING that I see recommended. So what I did is notice that at least I
could update Internet Explorer 7 back to a new 8 release 1 that WORKS WITH
SP3 already installed ...
My spybot program is installed at the latest but when the<SNIP>
computer started freezing so much after the SP3 download .. I thought why
do I have to run Norton 360 AS WELL as spybot and adaware. (I had both
installed and was a paying subscriber to Lavasoft which eventually just
confused me so much that I uninstalled .. or tried to.)
Anyway I will now proceed to go to the rest of your steps ...
<SNIP>
Sorry to add more ... but really by now it seems to have pervaded
everything because it seems like I have tried everything. Of all of the
files to re-register .. the one I am having the most trouble with is
mshmtl.dll (I think that is it). So upon searching I come up with the
Internet Explorer security update that just released in Feb 2009 and is
called
"Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-002 - Critical
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (961260)"
I would love to just at least install that update but there is no place for
me to find that particular download and of course when I go to Windows
automatic update ... the same old thing happens again.
"sbc" wrote:
I can barely say anymore what I am trying to do in order to have this
fixed .. since SP3 downloaded via Automatic Updates into my well
functioning WinXP SP2 Intel Pent 4 computer in Oct of 08 ... I have not
had Windows Update work. Maximum amount of memory upgraded to 2 gigs
installed .. my Verizon broadband DSL increased ... every single step in
the very thorough Castle Cops How To Fix Windows Update internet file
that was posted here a couple of months ago ... uninstalling Internet
Explorer 8 Beta and going back to IE 7 .... all the time continuing to
pay for my MSN subscription which I have had from the start and knew that
MSN Mail was one of the best but ALSO since October my MSN Explorer
windows that MSN Mail ran in .. slowed down to frozen all of the time ...
So now I have switched in IE 7 that my default email program is Windows
Live Mail and was at least able to download the later versions of those
programs .. and at first they worked at normal speed but now they too
seem to be clogged with whatever is preventing my computer from seeing I
NEED to have Windows Update work!
Finally I am just starting to look at the Windows update log even though I
can not decipher what it says ... it actually indicates that perhaps
sometimes over the last 3 months there have been some updates installed
but I can't possibly see that. I go to Windows/Microsoft update via MSN
Explorer .. via Internet Explorer and I download the update agent over
and over and over again and always go back to the same window.
SP3 was not rolled back off of my computer .. it could not be uninstalled
and it has stayed and now I see that there is an IE 8 that works with XP
SP3 ... I wonder would that help me somehow get later registry versions of
mshmtl.dll that does not seem to be registering whenever I go thru that
long list of files that I am supposed to try to re-register.
Is COMAPI a service I can start in my services area? I have BITS started
and automatic updates started cryptographic service started and have sent
in data files but I truly can not continue to wait .. manually installing
the last 3 months of critical updates is what I would try but I look at
them and don't even know how far my Microsoft .NET program versions go
and if this is instrumental in me getting Windows update to work.
My Reporting Events. log and the Windows Update. log now are what I am
trying to decipher. Oh and I have configured Norton 360 to not scan the
folders under Software distribution and Security and then always check in
those directories to make sure that some new virus files have not
downloaded. Course I also have my Windows Firewall ON with ports
configured and programs configured ...
I really really need Windows Update to start working again.
.
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