Random thoughts of an overloaded mind » error http://blog.amarkulo.com Yet another technical blog about iOS, Windows, Linux, Arduino and everything else Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:56:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Windows update problems http://blog.amarkulo.com/windows-update-problems http://blog.amarkulo.com/windows-update-problems#comments Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:20:59 +0000 amar http://dzo.blogsite.org/?p=28 Continue reading →]]> I have recently reinstalled XP on my laptop and everything worked like a charm. I have downloaded 95% of windows updates including SP3 and .NET updates.

BUT suddenly windows updates stopped working. This means also that Windows Defender could not update as well.

The error that I received was 0×80004002 and in c:\windows\windowsupdate.log I have found that this error was explained with text: Error: 0×80004002. wuauclt handler: failed to spawn COM server.

Some Googling helped and I have found that .dll files that were used by Windows Update were not registered correctly. I think that update of Windows Installer caused this mess because I have used Windows Update after reinstallation until one point where I was trying to download 1 or 2 remaining updates.

Easy fix for this is:

1. Start->Run->cmd

2. paste following and type enter

regsvr32.exe c:\windows\system32\wuweb.dll
regsvr32.exe c:\windows\system32\wups2.dll
regsvr32.exe c:\windows\system32\wups.dll
regsvr32.exe c:\windows\system32\wucltui.dll
regsvr32.exe c:\windows\system32\wuaueng1.dll
regsvr32.exe c:\windows\system32\wuaueng.dll
regsvr32.exe c:\windows\system32\wuapi.dll

3. Update

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