XP SP2 Windows Update fails solution

[ezrab]

When I received an error 0x800A0046 - windows update
fails- I elicited support from Microsoft knowledge
database. Their one article yields:
"You may receive an error message when you search for
available updates on the Windows Update Web site
(883821) - Discusses why you recieve an error message
when you search for available updates on the Windows
Update Web site."
I tried all their solutions which failed.
On repeating "Method 2: Set the Security Descriptor" : it
only succeeded when I typed in their three line
descriptor using the Caps Lock key for the upper case
letters.

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

ezrab wrote:

> When I received an error 0x800A0046 - windows update
> fails- I elicited support from Microsoft knowledge
> database. Their one article yields:
> "You may receive an error message when you search for
> available updates on the Windows Update Web site
> (883821) - Discusses why you recieve an error message
> when you search for available updates on the Windows
> Update Web site."
> I tried all their solutions which failed.
> On repeating "Method 2: Set the Security Descriptor" : it
> only succeeded when I typed in their three line
> descriptor using the Caps Lock key for the upper case
> letters.
Hi

Fyi, microsoft.public.windowsupdate is a better newsgroup for
Windows Update questions.


You could try the steps in this post to try to get WU to work:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=%230AuucGpEHA.3668%40TK2MSFTNGP15.phx. gbl


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