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| Some time back I reported that Comodo firewall was preventing Vista updates. It seemed that diisabling Comodo was inneffective and that a complete uninstall was necessary before the Vista updates could be downloaded and installed.
I have just installed the latest Comodo from their website and can now report that Vista updates can be downloaded and installed under this new version WITHOUT uninstalling Comodo. Hurrah ! |
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| Peter K:
Thanks for the tip. I moved your post to the Tips & Tweaks forum. We have that forum for posts just like the one you did.
Also, please do not posts links to ways to remove UAC -- we don't encourage that.
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| | I tried this fix, but I get an error stating the file cannot be found. Thought I did it right :shrugsshoulders: The Hp techs (all 4 of them) pretty much said I had to do a restore. Its my daughters, so would rather not have to. Anything new on this? Thoughts on what I did wrong? TIA |
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| WAW8 (1/23/2008)
If you run into the problem where Windows Update refuses to install updates, here is a solution Jason found on some other sites which seems to work pretty good if you do everything right! Apparently Microsoft knows this is a problem and has no solution but this works!
The issue is that the WUA 3.0 (7.0.6000.374) upgrade is corrupted,
essentially the system reports the WUA to be 7.0.6000.374 but the files on
the disk are still from the old version (you can check some of the DLLs like
wups.dll, wuaueng.dll etc... in the windows\system32) ... and you cannot
install the WUA 3.0 even manually.
Delete the following file:
C:\windows\winsxs\pending.xml
Since Windows security will not allow you to do this, hereunder the
procedure to take ownership of the file:
Run a command prompt with "Run as Administrator".
Type in the following commands:
takeown /f C:\Windows\winsxs\pending.xml
cacls C:\Windows\winsxs\pending.xml /G :F
Then delete the file
del C:\Windows\winsxs\pending.xml
Reboot the machine, then manually install the WUA 3.0 downloadable from
here: http://download.windowsupdate.com/v7/windowsupdate/redist/standalone/WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe
This should fix the Error 80073712 when the other solutions do not work.
BE AWARE that renaming C:\windows\winsxs\pending.xml might have
unrecoverable impacts on your Vista installation
NOTE:
As a result of this comand:
takeown /f C:\Windows\winsxs\pending.xml
your user name will display which you can use in place in
this command (drop the < and >, one space after G and no space after
):
cacls C:\Windows\winsxs\pending.xml /G :F
If the del command works (no errors displayed) you can go on and do the
download of Windows Update.
[Update]: There are reports that Comodo firewall is preventing Windows Update from working. You not only have to disable Comodo; you have to completely uninstall it.
Check to see if you have Comodo installed or running.I couldn't get past the first set of directions takeown .... The file seems to be missing. Is the service pack 1 really worth all this trouble?
Chad Haag
Learned the basics of C++ and C#.
Currently in the 4th Term
Game Software Development Major
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| Delete the following file:
C:\windows\winsxs\pending.xml
My computer doesn't even have this file.
Any other suggestions on how to get Windows to update? I've had my computer less than 3 months and in the last few days the little icon appeared down the bottom telling me "Windows can't check for updates" yet when I force it to search for updates it searches for hours and hours, I don't even get an error code. I've searched the internet high and low and have found no solution. The last update Windows did was 7 April, 2008 (Service Pack 1 was installed on 30 March, 2008).
HELP!!! |
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| Thanks for that guide. When I ran the commands and tried to delete the file, I was told it could not be found. When I then installed Windows Update manually, I was told it was not necessary, as it is already on the system. Yet it still doesn't work. When I pull up the events manager, I get the following information about Windows Update (the console records roughly three Windows Update errors a day):
System
- Provider
[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-WindowsUpdateClient
[ Guid] {945a8954-c147-4acd-923f-40c45405a658}
EventID 20
Version 0
Level 2
Task 1
Opcode 13
Keywords 0x8000000000000028
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2009-01-08T14:10:37.226Z
EventRecordID 276432
Correlation
- Execution
[ ProcessID] 1648
[ ThreadID] 1204
Channel System
Computer xxxxxxx
- Security
[ UserID] xxxxxxxxx
- ProcessingErrorData
ErrorCode 15005
DataItemName updateGuid
EventPayload 020007802645FFE2D79726498E75295DBA39C6BF01000000
Any idea what I should do?
cheers,
lacfadio
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| With regard to the Vista update problem, I've searched the Web for some time and even contacted Microsoft. All supposed fixes seem to involve the pending.xml file. This file is alleged to reside in the Windows/winsxs folder.
However, this file is NOT present in the Windows/winsxs folder in my Windows Vista Ultimate. It is simply not there.
This should be simple: How does one repair the Windows update function if the pending.xml file is not present?
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| | Been trying to update Vista for days now...haven't had an update in months and finally started to tackle the issue. No forum post has helped. No patch, no trick I have yet seen, no system restore has worked. Any ideas?
HP Pavillion
Vista Home Premium 6.0 Build 6001
AMD Phenom quad core processor 2.3 GHz
8G RAM
Nvidia GeForce 9500 GT |
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