Problem with Windows Update
June 19th, 2008 in windows XP by prosthetichead
Just had an odd problem with Windows Update in Windows XP it would download updates but not install them showing the very informative error of ‘A problem on your computer is preventing updates from being downloaded’.
Quick search uncovered this easy fix.
Open Start and click run type in
regsvr32 wuapi.dll
do this again for each of these WU dll files
regsvr32 wuaueng1.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng.dll
regsvr32 wucltui.dll
regsvr32 wups2.dll
regsvr32 wups.dll
regsvr32 wuweb.dll
Then it should be back to normal.