Following the advice of another posting here about the same 0x800A0046 error,
it said to (1) be an administrator, which I am, being owner, and NOT be in
the Guest group.

I took myself out of the guest group and now I can proceed with Microsoft
UPdate !!

"kelly" wrote:

> hi ,i have done exactly what you said and stil cannott aCESS my windows
> update have you any other suggestions
> regards kelly (uk)
>
> "Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote:
>
> > mfhau wrote:
> >
> > > Error number: 0x800A0046
> > >
> > Hi
> >
> > See if the tip from Karl B/Melvin Salazar works for you:
> >
> > <quote>
> >
> > From: "Karl B" <karl@gfield.org.uk>
> > Subject: Possible solution to the windows update 0x800A0046 problem
> > Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 12:03:39 +0100
> > Newsgroups: microsoft.private.xpsp2.general
> >
> > Firstly, I take no credit for this I was going though the network
> > newsgroup because my dialup network settings had vanished and a guy
> > named Melvin Salazar suggested the following which WORKED!
> >
> > 'You can also try doing the following, it worked for me:
> >
> > Go to Services under the Administrative Tools folder.
> >
> > Notice that the logon account is set to a NT/User account under the RPC
> > (remote procedure call) service. Change it to Local System account,
> > under the Logon tab, and restart the computer. Many of these services
> > depend on the RPC, but there was an error when it came to configuring
> > this paticular service.'
> >
> > Now once I made these changes I was able to get my network icons back
> > as well as use Windows Update.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Karl
> >
> > </quote>
> >
> >
> > --
> > torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
> > Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
> > the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
> > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...r/default.mspx
> >