"Andrew McLaren" <andrew@fakeaddress.com> wrote ...
> If you still get the 80070005 error when running as Administrator, then
> something unusual has happened to your installation of Vista. Make sure
> the Windows Update service is logging on as "Local System" account (under
> Administrative Tools, Services, Windows Update). After that ... sorry, I
> dunno. Probbaly just a minor teak needed to fix the error, but it is very

I had an after-thought. If Update continues to fail with aan 0x80070005
error, look at the file C:\Windows\WindowsUpdate.log. It is a plain text
file, you can open it with Notepad. Go to the bottom of the file and look
for "Access Denied" or similar errors. This may give you a more exact idea
what object cannot be accessed, and why.

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Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au