The same thing is happening to me on all 4 of my XP machines. Same trouble
number. For the past 5 months I've had to manually type in each KB number in
the Search Microsoft window and the update will download and install
successfully from there. BTW, automatic updates suddenly stopped working on
all 4 machines in June as well. Actually, it probably started way before
that but it wasn't until June that I noticed that Auto Update hadn't prompted
me to install an update in a very long while and I became curious. That made
troubleshooting impossible because I had no idea when everything went South
and couldn't backtrack the problem. I've tried everything under the sun
short of reinstalling Windows - or possibly just Service Pack 2... which
contained the newest version of Windows Update at the time. Wish I could
help but I got tired of it and gave up long ago.

"Lotus7" wrote:

> I purchased two identical PCs in March this year to use in two different
> residences.
> On one machine I cannot load update Windows XP manually or automatically.
> The Update prog tells me which updates I need but when I click Express or
> Custom the downloads fail.
>
> When I check update history I have an error code 0x80200010.
>
> I now have accumulated 26 failed security and critical updates since
> purchase. The vendor of the machine does not know what the problem is. I
> have tried turning off the firewall and the virus checker during the update
> procedure.
>
> Can anyone help?