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1. by hanmeng, on December 6 2007 @ 12:35 pm

   

   Finally! Thanks!

2. by Graham Davis, on December 10 2007 @ 1:06 pm

   

   Thanks for that, it worked. I had to perform a repair installation and ended up with 83 updates that would not install. This did the trick, much appreciated.

3. by T Conaghan, on December 11 2007 @ 4:06 pm

   

   After a re-activation of Win XP Home - 87 updates would download but not install - this worked immediately. Deep joy! Many thanks.

4. by Kevin K, on December 15 2007 @ 1:55 pm

   

   For the longest time with a clean install of XP, for some reason updates would not install. With this, they are now installing fine! Thanks!

5. by Niclas B, on December 15 2007 @ 2:23 pm

   

   Great tip! Have had this problem for ages and been installing updates manually. Now it works as a charm!

   Many thanks!

6. by jim, on December 21 2007 @ 9:48 am

   

   Why can’t Microsoft post something like this!
   This was easy, quick and it worked. …. Thanks

7. by Matt, on December 22 2007 @ 3:26 pm

   

   This was driving me nuts, thanks a bunch! I have been through microsoft forums and the microsoft people say you have to call tech support…idiots.

8. by Tim, on December 23 2007 @ 10:31 pm

   

   Brilliant! Thank you.

9. by Russell Potter, on December 25 2007 @ 1:26 pm

   

   Thank you thank you thank you This has been bugging me for over 11 days. Yet your fix solved the problem immediately.

   Thanks
   Russell

10. by Sunil, on December 31 2007 @ 10:29 am

    

    I cannot thank you enough.. This has been nagging problem.. 89 updates and growing.. (thanks to MS)… Yet the most important things we have a fix from you. God bless you and your family.
    Happy New Year 2008
    Thanks

11. by Brian Chasse, on January 4 2008 @ 7:41 pm

    

    Awesome.. fixed it right up…. finally, someone with useful guidance that works..

12. by Easwar, on January 5 2008 @ 6:36 pm

    

    Thanks, thanks, thanks for the excellent help…I was struggling with Windows update issue for last 2 months doing lot of search, trials, spending time in reading MSFT articles… your tip worked…

    I am surprised, there is no such help available from Microsoft and their tool does not detect these issues at all.

13. by Pat, on January 6 2008 @ 8:19 am

    

    Same as number 2, performed a repair installation and then couldn’t get updates to install. Great fix, wish I’d come here first.

14. by Mike DeMopar, on January 12 2008 @ 6:56 pm

    

    Wow, I can’t believe this worked. You rock, man.

    -Mike

15. by Arspi, on January 13 2008 @ 8:27 am

    

    Thanks, it works perfect.

16. by Dirtyike, on January 14 2008 @ 7:22 am

    

    You Rule.. after trolling MS forums and their stupid nonsense I came upon this solution and it worked perfectly. Kudos.

17. by Nedyalnov, on January 14 2008 @ 11:54 pm

    

    Thank You! But I am supriset too … why Microsoft do not resolve the problem?

18. by Bob G, on January 17 2008 @ 3:13 am

    

    Awesome!
    This was becoming a major pain.
    This tells me a lot about technipages and how great the advice is.

19. by Joe, on January 17 2008 @ 5:54 pm

    

    finally…it worked brilliantly…thank you soooo much. i thought i was going to have to reformat…

20. by John Hughes, on January 21 2008 @ 5:15 am

    

    You’ve converted the cynic in me. Worked immediately and I must have looked at a dozen other ‘help’ sites. Why oh why doesn’t MS help like this???????

21. by Mike Gunn, on January 22 2008 @ 12:39 pm

    

    This works great. Thanks for the advice.

22. by Laurentiu, on January 24 2008 @ 9:18 am

    

    Great it worked well from first try

23. by Tom Byron, on January 25 2008 @ 10:25 am

    

    Dude this tip worked immediately! Thx.

24. by Mike, on January 27 2008 @ 3:22 am

    

    Man - thank you SO much - I was tearing what little hair I have, out.
    If Microsoft are so clever that they can write the error message, why do they not write some sort of “fix” to go with it. Instead, when I cut and paste in their error message - their helpscreens just look blankly at me.

    Thanks again.

25. by Mark, on January 29 2008 @ 7:08 am

    

    I have tried this fix before to no avail. However I noticed before when I tried from another site wuaueng1.dll and wups2.dll were not listed. One of those seemed to be my problem.

26. by Arash, on February 2 2008 @ 2:25 pm

    

    thanks a lot. that worked!

27. by Brandon, on February 3 2008 @ 12:24 am

    

    Thank you so much, this worked great!!

28. by Tim, on February 5 2008 @ 3:41 pm

    

    absolutely brilliant, appreciate the help, I have been trying for weeks to fix this after reinstalling xp and having to download and install about 88 updates

29. by Sonia, on February 15 2008 @ 11:21 am

    

    You Little Darling.
    Ta.

30. by Terence, on February 15 2008 @ 8:49 pm

    

    Could i just say? Microsoft are bloody idiots, they dont give a tip like this

    you have saved my life, for that i thank you deeply!

    I was not able to get this kind of information anywhere else

31. by wickchads, on February 22 2008 @ 12:20 pm

    

    Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you! This has been annoying me for weeks but all sorted now :o)

32. by AC, on February 24 2008 @ 10:37 pm

    

    Thank you!!!!! Great its working!! Thank you so much!!!!
    AC

33. by DR, on February 26 2008 @ 7:53 pm

    

    THis seems to be working after hours of searching on MS websits and others. Thanks a bunch!

34. by kd, on February 28 2008 @ 10:51 am

    

    Have to agree- worked like a charm! Updates were working fine then all of a sudden they would download but not install. Couldn’t figure out why… don’t care why at this point!

35. by J.E., on March 1 2008 @ 9:22 am

    

    I thank you.

36. by Damien Keitel, on March 4 2008 @ 6:06 am

    

    OMG. Man I just can’t believe this. It worked. I have tried every thing. Recieved 4 emails from the Australian Micro$oft guys and they were asking me if I had fixed the problem 3 timed LOL. You guys really know your s#*t. Excuse the language. Have been trying for a couple of weeks trying everything to fix it.
    Be adding a banner ad to my home page for you guys cheers again

    Keitzy
    http://www.keitzy.com.au

37. by David Morison, on March 6 2008 @ 2:36 pm

    

    As all above, how refreshing to find someone who can give accurate concise and correct informTION. Well done!

38. by Bob, on March 9 2008 @ 8:32 pm

    

    Well done you have cured another one

39. by Erik, on March 9 2008 @ 10:34 pm

    

    Worked right away, <33333

40. by Mike, on March 10 2008 @ 5:48 am

    

    OMG.. i have been searching for this ‘cure’ for so long.. and Bingo!! this did it!.. what a saviour..
    saving this note for sure.

41. by Matt, on March 12 2008 @ 8:02 am

    

    Wicked. Thanks

42. by Ian Harris, on March 13 2008 @ 4:48 am

    

    Amazing.

    Thank you ever so much for this.

43. by Beth, on March 17 2008 @ 6:25 pm

    

    I cannot thank you enough for having this information available. I have been looking for this resolution for months. This actually worked. All I can say is that you a God.

44. by Marc, on March 19 2008 @ 8:22 pm

    

    Thank you so much! It was easy and worked!

45. by Imo Ekpo, on March 20 2008 @ 9:53 am

    

    Thanks for the help! It resolved the issue right away.

46. by Daniel, on March 25 2008 @ 4:15 am

    

    Great Tip, works straight away. Couldn’t find anything on the microsoft site.

47. by Boyan, on March 25 2008 @ 4:49 am

    

    F*** Microsoft! And again! Why couldn’t I find this on their site???

48. by Afeef, on March 30 2008 @ 10:21 pm

    

    That was Magic.

49. by suresh, on March 31 2008 @ 1:24 am

    

    thanks Boss
    Its working fine mow

50. by Lim, on April 1 2008 @ 9:11 am

    

    Thanks heaps. After searching for hours and numerous Microsoft so called solutions, yours did the trick in minutes. Your website is a legend. You’d be my first “port of call” for all future problem solving!

51. by Karteek, on April 2 2008 @ 11:07 am

    

    Thanks a million. It worked like a charm. Howe did you happen to get that information?

52. by Anna Hail, on April 6 2008 @ 6:08 pm

    

    You guys are absolutely amazing!!!

    We tried this other site that had other .dlls, but those didn’t work. However, yours did… awesome! :]

53. by progmars, on April 10 2008 @ 6:47 am

    

    Thanks a lot from me, too!

54. by Robin, on April 11 2008 @ 11:21 pm

    

    Thanks -immediately sorted problem. Microsoft site no help but this simple and works.

55. by Cycles, on April 14 2008 @ 3:04 pm

    

    Finally!! After much research and solutions that didn’t work. Wish Microsuck did a better job on their software and support.

    Thanks a bunch

56. by Lee H in TX, on April 15 2008 @ 1:43 pm

    

    I had the same problem (96 updates that would not install) I tried other “fixes”, but this is the only one that worked!!!

    THANKS!!!!

57. by Kwezza, on April 17 2008 @ 2:46 am

    

    Just re-installed xp and got that error. Thanks for the tip - works great now!

58. by mustafa mamdouh, on April 19 2008 @ 9:26 pm

    

    Very Simple,Very Helpful

59. by Robey, on April 22 2008 @ 6:16 am

    

    I was feeling like a lion tamer.. withOUT a whip. Then I read this article. Thanks.

60. by Adam W in TX, on April 24 2008 @ 3:01 pm

    

    Thank you so much! Worked for me, too! Had 93 updates downloaded that wouldn’t install. As others have said, no help on the MS website.

61. by TheDarium, on April 25 2008 @ 1:26 pm

    

    Hey, thanks, like the others, this worked right away.

    Had found a simular solution on the windows website, but it didn’t include the wups2.dll or wuaueng1.dll files, and had a few other ones. plus they had me stop the windows update service, rename the files from *.dll to *.old, regester them, then restart the windows update service. Overall a much better soulution here then on microsoft’s site.

62. by Dan F., on April 27 2008 @ 2:34 pm

    

    It’s working, thanks!! I spent my whole Sunday trying over and over again, a dozen fixes suggested by Microsoft, then reinstalling XP, then uninstalling programs I thought might be causing problems - nothing worked. As other posters noted, this error message from Microsoft does not appear in any Microsoft “help”.

63. by Pete, on April 28 2008 @ 11:45 pm

    

    yes Yes YES!
    Everything other people have said and more.
    Great fix, thanks.

64. by richbike, on April 29 2008 @ 12:12 pm

    

    Nice one! You really would have thought after years of patch controversy the clowns at Redmond would have this sorted…or at least have a bl00dy technet article to cover it.

65. by DH, on April 29 2008 @ 5:45 pm

    

    Sen-freakin’-sational !!!!!

66. by Jin, on May 3 2008 @ 10:11 am

    

    Thanks a million!

67. by CHANTAL, on May 5 2008 @ 12:05 pm

    

    Thanks, I was going crazy 4 dayz until i came accross this site!

68. by Tony, on May 6 2008 @ 7:57 pm

    

    Great….fixed the problem immediately. Thank you!

69. by ChrisMcC, on May 7 2008 @ 1:22 pm

    

    Thank you!
    Have been banging head against a wall for hours now!!
    All fixed

70. by JDinger, on May 7 2008 @ 7:12 pm

    

    You’re the man!

71. by Yair, on May 9 2008 @ 3:20 pm

    

    FANTASTIC!!!!
    Thanks a lot!

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73. by Circuit, on May 13 2008 @ 11:52 am

    

    Just copy the commands into a script or batch file (use the /s switch) and make it easy to do

74. by BrokenBokken, on May 14 2008 @ 4:53 pm

    

    You, sir, are a life saver. Thank you very much.

75. by Jay, on May 14 2008 @ 8:01 pm

    

    Nice, finally a top result on Google that instantly does the trick! Thank you, author!

76. by David, on May 14 2008 @ 10:06 pm

    

    Worked like a charm. Thank you so much!

77. by watice, on May 15 2008 @ 2:59 am

    

    Thank you for posting this. Fresh install of windows XP would download but not install updates, this fixed it.

78. by Mark Linn, on May 15 2008 @ 9:15 am

    

    Thanks technipages! 2 New Dell’s installed Windows XP Service Pack 3 fine then would not install any other Windows Updates. I thought it was an SP3 issue. Checked Google before uninstalling SP3 and I’m glad I did. Thanks again!

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