Windows Update fails immediately with no error message

When I run Windows or Microsoft Update, it will check the system for updates
and then shows me that I have 3 high-priority updates available. I click on
"Install Updates" and they all fail to install. The files never get
downloaded. It fails right away. Under the Failed Updates summary, it says
"Problem: A problem with your computer is preventing updates from being
downloaded or installed." I checked my update history and I don't see the
failures. I searched the Troubleshooter but I wasn't able to find anything.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am running Windows XP Home SP2.

Thanks in advance.

Please help! I still have this problem and I don't know what to do next.

Thanks.

"bpiela" wrote:

> When I run Windows or Microsoft Update, it will check the system for updates
> and then shows me that I have 3 high-priority updates available. I click on
> "Install Updates" and they all fail to install. The files never get
> downloaded. It fails right away. Under the Failed Updates summary, it says
> "Problem: A problem with your computer is preventing updates from being
> downloaded or installed." I checked my update history and I don't see the
> failures. I searched the Troubleshooter but I wasn't able to find anything.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am running Windows XP Home SP2.
>
> Thanks in advance.

This solution fixed my problem. Thanks very much.


Jeff Richardson wrote:

> Trying to run windows update on 2 windows 2000 boxes we get error code
> 0x800704DD - the update scan works, it lists the update, we click on install
> and it flashes through the download progress box really fast, reporting
> ...fail after each download - exactly the same thing happens on 2 win 2000
> boxes, it runs successfully on another 8 - I've tried compaing settins
> between those that are successful and those that are not and I can't see any
> differences, can anybody offer further help please ?
Hi,

This could be due to a missing SensLogn registry key/values.

Please put the part between the two
--------------------8<----------------------
lines below into a file that you give a .reg file extension.

NB:
The [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\......\Notify\SensLogn ] part needs
to be on *one* line, will wrap over to lines in this post.

If you have Windows 2000, and not Windows XP, please remove
the following 3 lines (at the bottom of the listing):

"Disconnect"="SensDisconnectEvent"
"PostShell"="SensPostShellEvent"
"Reconnect"="SensReconnectEvent"


Import the registry file by double clicking on it in Explorer,
and then reboot the computer.


When importing the registry file, you should then get this dialog box:

---------------------------
Registry Editor
---------------------------
Are you sure you want to add the information in Some.reg to the registry?
---------------------------
Yes No
---------------------------


Press the Yes button, and you should get this dialog box:

---------------------------
Registry Editor
---------------------------
Information in Some.reg has been successfully entered into the registry.
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------



Here is the content of the registry file:

--------------------8<----------------------
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\
Winlogon\Notify\SensLogn]

"Asynchronous"=dword:00000001
"DLLName"="WlNotify.dll"
"Impersonate"=dword:00000001
"Lock"="SensLockEvent"
"Logoff"="SensLogoffEvent"
"Logon"="SensLogonEvent"
"MaxWait"=dword:00000258
"Safe"=dword:00000001
"Shutdown"="SensShutdownEvent"
"StartScreenSaver"="SensStartScreenSaverEvent"
"StartShell"="SensStartShellEvent"
"Startup"="SensStartupEvent"
"StopScreenSaver"="SensStopScreenSaverEvent"
"Unlock"="SensUnlockEvent"
"Disconnect"="SensDisconnectEvent"
"PostShell"="SensPostShellEvent"
"Reconnect"="SensReconnectEvent"


--------------------8<----------------------
(be sure to have a blank line at the end of the registry file)



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