{"id":1140,"date":"2008-07-31T11:28:57","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T11:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/microsoft-update-failure.htm"},"modified":"2008-07-31T13:05:35","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T13:05:35","slug":"microsoft-update-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/microsoft-update-failure.htm","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Update failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been building a Windows XP virtual machine for test purposes and needed to apply the latest updates (even with Windows XP service pack 3 it required over 20 updates to be applied).  Unfortunately, Microsoft Update hit a problem and refused to install some of the updates, telling me that &#8220;<em>a problem on your computer is preventing updates from being downloaded or installed<\/em>&#8220;.  I tried disabling my anti-virus software (AVG Free) but that made no difference.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/microsoft-update-failed-updates.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Microsoft Update: Failed Updates\" class=\"inline\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.update.microsoft.com\/microsoftupdate\/v6\/showarticle.aspx?articleid=38&#038;ln=en&#038;IsMu=True\">Microsoft&#8217;s advice is to re-register a number of DLLs<\/a> using the following commands:<\/p>\n<p><code>regsvr32 wuapi.dll<br \/>\nregsvr32 wuaueng.dll<br \/>\nregsvr32 wuaueng1.dll<br \/>\nregsvr32 wucltui.dll<br \/>\nregsvr32 wups.dll<br \/>\nregsvr32 wups2.dll<br \/>\nregsvr32 wuweb.dll<\/code><\/p>\n<p>For each successful registration, Windows should return &#8220;<em>DllRegisterServer in <\/em>filename<em>.dll succeeded<\/em>&#8221; but wucltui.dll didn&#8217;t seem to exist on my system.  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