Ever get infuriated with Windows Updates starting the update process then bouncing to a dialog box listing the updates and telling you “some updates could not be installed”? No apparent reason is given.
Here’s a fix that has worked for me on occasion and I thought I’d post it in case in works for you.
- Pull up a command prompt (Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK)
- (At the Command Prompt) type: net stop wuauserv [ENTER]
- Type: Regsvr32 %windir%\system32\wups2.dll [ENTER] Click Ok on the verification message you receive. If you have XP Pro x64, then the command is regsvr32 %windir%\syswow64\wups2.dll
- ReStart the Automatic Updates service by typing: net start wuauserv [ENTER]
- Exit the command prompt (type exit [ENTER]).
For good measure you can go ahead and reboot if you want to.
After this, Windows Updates should work normally again.
