You may want to try a MowGreen [MVP] trick before installing the update,
since his advice seems to have cured your error code . It's the same advice
Freudi gave you, but with a little extra, and updated from the original:
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Click Start > Run > type in (or copy&paste)
regsvr wuaueng.dll
(note the space after regsvr)
Click OK. Now enter these one by one and click OK after each
regsvr atl.dll
regsvr wuapi.dll
regsvr wucltui.dll
regsvr wups.dll
regsvr wuweb.dll
Next, download the WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe and save it to the Desktop -
http://download.windowsupdate.com/Wi...gent30-x86.exe
If it says "Install is not needed since Windows Update Agent is
already installed", run WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe with the command
line switch /wuforce, like this:
WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe /wuforce
Click Start > Run > click the Browse button
Click the Desktop icon in the left frame
Click on WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe, then click the Open button
The command line will appear as
"C:\Documents and Settings\<UserName>\Desktop\WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe"
Click on the command and it will highlight in blue. Now left click once
after the last quotation mark "
Press the Space Bar once, then copy&paste this - /wuforce
The command will now look like -
"C:\Documents and
Settings\<UserName>\Desktop\WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe" /wuforce
(<UserName> is your User Account's name)
Click OK to run it.
Restart the system and try to access Windows Update once more.
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[ info retrieved from
http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=613941 ]
"chrysa" <chrysa@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E9B8CD6F-1A34-4B38-A85B-2A27DB731413@microsoft.com...
> hello once again!!
> i can't dowload WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86 no matter what i do.
> i mean, i can dowload the .exe file but when i choose to run the file
> finally, it stops the process after copying the files and says "the dowload
> process failed with error 0x800703e3"
> so,i can't dowload the updated version.
> The second thing you told me to do, that with the msconfig, i am not sure i
> did it right and i don't understand exactly what entries should i provide
> you. So i still don't know what to do. If you could explain me a little more
> what should i do with the "msconfig" thing i might make it and provide the
> entries you need.
> Sorry if i'm a big trouble..i'm a bit desperate.
> thanks in advance, you are very kind.
>
> "Ottmar Freudenberger" wrote:
>
>> chrysa schrieb:
>> > "Ottmar Freudenberger" wrote:
>> >> "chrysa" <chrysa@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:
>> >>
>> >>>>> 2007-11-24 02:13:34 824 81c Agent * WU client version 5.8.0.2469
>>
>> >>>> Which Windows version are you using?
>>
>> >>> my windows version is :
>> >>> Microsoft Windows XP
>>
>> >>> does that help somehow?
>>
>> >> Well, that does indeed help, since you're obviously using an outdated
>> >> Windows Update Agent. Try downloading and installing the most recent
>> >> version of WUA:
>> >> http://download.windowsupdate.com/Wi...gent30-x86.exe
>>
>> > well nothing happened!!
>>
>> Pardon? At least the "WU client version" shouldn't be 5.8.0.2469 any
>> longer after applying WUA 3.0. You may like to download the
>> WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe linked above once again. Do *not* excute
>> the EXE yet but *save* the file into a folder named "Downloads" on your
>> Drive C:. Afterwards type or copy&paste the following into "Run" in the
>> Start menu:
>> "C:\Downloads\WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe" /wuforce
>> After that hit the [Enter] key or click on OK and restart Windows finally.
>>
>> In case that doesn't help, please provide us the list of entries to be
>> found in msconfig and the System Start tab there (Start -> Run ->
>> msconfig [Enter/OK]).
>>
>> Bye,
>> Freudi
>>
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