Windows Update (Vista)

[theDreamer]

The past couple of days I have had four updates for Windows Vista Ultimate that will not install. It gets to about 11% download, then jumps to installing. The updates are:

Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Vista x64 (KB961260)
Update Rollup for ActiveX Killbits for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB960715)
Cumulative Update for Media Center for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB960544)
Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter for x64-based Systems [February 2009] (KB905866)

When it is installing, it tries to install the ActiveX Killbits. It fails with an error "Code 8E5E0442"

Thanks.

 

[criccio]

Taken from here.

Perform the following steps to reset the Windows Update component.



1. Stop the Background Intelligent Transfer Service and the Automatic Updates service. To do this, follow these steps:

a. Click Start/All Programs/Accessories. Right click 'Command Prompt' and select 'Run As Administrator'. Click 'Continue' on the UAC prompt.

b. At the command prompt, type the following commands, and then press ENTER after each command:



net stop wuauserv
net stop bits



2. Rename the "Catroot2" folder. To do this, follow these steps:

Type the following commands, and then press Enter after each command.



net stop cryptsvc
ren %systemroot%\System32\Catroot2 oldcatroot2
net start cryptsvc

3. Rename the "SoftwareDistribution" folder:

Type the following command, and then press Enter.



ren %systemroot%\SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old



4. Register the files that are used by Windows Update and Microsoft Update. To do this, follow these steps:

a. At the command prompt, type the following commands, press ENTER after each command, and then click OK every time that you receive a verification message:

regsvr32 wuapi.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng.dll
regsvr32 wucltux.dll
regsvr32 wups2.dll
regsvr32 wups.dll
regsvr32 wuwebv.dll


5. Start the Background Intelligent Transfer Service, the Automatic Updates service, and the Event Log service. To do this, follow these steps:

a. At the command prompt, type the following commands, and then press ENTER after each command:

net start bits
net start wuauserv
net start Eventlog
exit



Reboot the computer and try Windows Update again.



Let us know the results.

 

[theDreamer]

Thank you, did all of that and it installed three out of the four updates, one still failed. Did a reboot and trying the final one now, it is downloading.