[basstraks]

Man o Man I have just gone bald.

I am completely burned out. I have been using this CD for years now, never had a problem until now. I just installed a Fresh copy of XP pro due to buying a new hard drive. Everything was fine, I called MS and Activated my Copy, all good, but I cannot download any windows updates.

The plugins install, but then upon the first initial downloads, I get the error that they will not download. First is the Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool (KB892130), which I took care of by downloading that individually. (now it no longer shows up on the update scan)

Then came the Update for Windows XP (KB898461) (Installer thing) - It fails to install through windows update, so I downloaded it alone, (WindowsXP-KB898461-x86-ENU.exe) But this one just will not install. - It keeps saying "File is corrupt", and will not install. - File Is Corrupt ???

I downloaded "WindowsInstaller-KB893803-v2-x86", but that gives me wierd errors also, during the install, it starts giving me dialogs boxes looking for locations, but can't find them, even though it's in the right place. So that wont install. - Then, not sure how, it installed. But it still asks to install it through windows update.

I tried all the suggestions everywhere all over the net, but nothing will remedy the situation. I have in the past ran Windows Update right after a Fresh Install and Right After a Fresh Activation with absolutely No Problems at all.

Same CD, same setup procedure, and now it (windows update) will not work anymore.

WHAT IS GOING ON???

By the way, I tried the .DLL FIX Which I was told was a sure working 100%
thing. - That did not work either. :

REGSVR32 WUAPI.DLL
REGSVR32 WUAUENG1.DLL
REGSVR32 ATL.DLL
REGSVR32 WUPS2.DLL
REGSVR32 WUCLTUI.DLL
REGSVR32 WUPS.DLL
REGSVR32 WUWEB.DLL
REGSVR32 WUAUENG.DLL

THIS DID NOT FIX THE ISSUE.

So I tried yet another suggestion:
I renamed the folder C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution - "SoftwareDistribution" to "SoftwareDistribution.old", did this, and I quote:

"Try this, go to Start, Run, type in

net stop wuauserv

Click OK.
Navigate to the WINDOWS\Software Distribution folder. Rename the
Software Distribution folder to SoftwareDistribution.old .

Go back to Start, Run, type in

net start wuauserv

Click OK. Now try Windows Update. If the system can successfully update
then you can delete the SoftwareDistribution.old folder afterwards."

BUT THIS DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Can someone that really knows their stuff please help me. I probably don't need to do it, but I am going to reinstall Windows anyway at this point. I did so many different things I don't trust the registry anymore. - By the way, this was after a fresh install and a fresh activation. I have done it this way many times in the past, All Legit, all the sudden now it's an issue. WHAT HAVE THEY DONE???

[Mr Snrub]

Is it a hologrammed CD, or one you have customized & burnt yourself?

If it is a custom CD, have you tried a clean install to see if it can update without problems?