Friday, June 20, 2008

Windows not updating after a repair?

The Blog Thing » Windows Automatic Update fails after XP repair
What has happened, it that for some reason some components (DLL’s) of WAU aren’t “registered” anymore. To fix this, copy the text below, do a “Start -> Run” and type “cmd” and Enter, and paste the text into the cmd text box that should appear. For every line a window will pop up, saying the the DLL was registered. Restart your computer and WAU should work fine.
The lines below assume that Windows XP is installed in C:\WINDOWS. If yours is in C:\WINNT or any other, change the lines accordingly.

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

Wednesday, June 18, 2008