I am trying to walk through what you've suggested, and get the following
while trying to register wups2.dll:

DllRegisterServer in C:\WINDOWS\system32\wups2.dll failed.
The return code was 0x80070005




"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> Ponti1 wrote:
> > I like many others am getting the subject error in my XP Pro w/
> > SP2. So Windows Update will not work. Please let me know what
> > information I can provide to isolate the source of the problem. I
> > have already manually started BITS, and have tried removing the
> > contents of %systemroot%\SoftwareDistribution.
>
> Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update,
> from Microsoft Update, or by using Automatic Updates after
> you repair a Windows XP installation
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144
>
> (Try it even if you did a clean, not repair, installation.)
> (Try it even if you performed some sort of restore - not repair install.)
> (Try it even if you did an upgrade installation.)
> (Heck - try even if you think nothing in the description fits...)
>
> Do all suggested methods. Hope that helps!
>
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> Shenan Stanley
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