Problems after installing SP3 for WinXP

Ahoy m8,

i just thought i write this into here if you experienced also problems with the automatic update for windows or microsoft...
Problem with my PC is that the updates are shown but could not be updated - the progress end with errors.

Here is the information what can be done to make it working again:

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by Adrian Henkes Blog
Today I installed Win XP on two completely different machines. After installing XP SP3 onto these machines, the windows update service somehow stopped working: Although it downloaded the patches it failed to initialize their installation, no matter what patch was selected. The log at C:\windows\WindowsUpdate.log showed several lines looking like this:

FATAL: Error: 0×80070005. wuauclt handler: failed to spawn COM server

After browsing the web, I found a solution to this, re-registering some components of the update service fixes the issue. I wrote this tiny script to automatize the fix:

Code

1. rem updatefix.bat
2. net stop wuauserv
3. cd %windir%\system32
4. regsvr32.exe /s wuweb.dll
5. regsvr32.exe /s wups2.dll
6. regsvr32.exe /s wups.dll
7. regsvr32.exe /s wucltui.dll
8. regsvr32.exe /s wuaueng1.dll
9. regsvr32.exe /s wuaueng.dll
10. regsvr32.exe /s wuapi.dll
11. net start wuauserv
12. pause

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