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Jan
06

Some updates could not be installed – automatic updates

Posted under Software, Vista, XP by ifoundafix

The other day while browsing the Internet I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

After running automatic updates on a Windows 2000 computer, I received the following failure message after trying to install the latest updates; “Some updates could not be installed”

The solution and description to this error is set out below;

1. Click Start, click Run, type ‘cmd’ , and then click OK.
2. From the black command prompt, type ‘net stop wuauserv’, and then press ENTER.
3. At the command prompt, type ‘regsvr32 %windir%\system32\wups2.dll’ , and then press ENTER. Click OK to proceed.
4. You need to then restart the Automatic Updates service. To do this, type the following at the command prompt ‘net start wuauserv’.
5. Exit the command prompt. To do this type exit, and then press ENTER.

I hope you too have Found a Fix!

  1. gemma Said,

    After running automatic updates on a Windows VISTA ultimate, I received the following failure message after trying to install the latest updates; “Some updates could not be installed”
    I started to:-
    1. Click Start, click Run, type ‘cmd’ , and then click OK.
    2. From the black command prompt, type ‘net stop wuauserv’, after doing this I received a message “error 5 has occurred” …Access is denied.
    can you help with this. Thanks

  2. admin Said,

    Hi,

    you need to run the command prompt as administrator. Right-click on command prompt and “Run as administrator”.

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