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windows update not working- continuous repair pending, restart message.

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Shane:
From the error it looks like it might have to do with a few reg keys.

Also is this the fixit you ran?
http://support.microsoft.com/mats/windows_update/?wa=wsignin1.0

Shane

viidjej:
Ran....  http://support.microsoft.com/mats/windows_update/?wa=wsignin1.0

This claimed to fix the issues....configuration of WindowsUpdate and location of update files.

But problem still remains...and this Fixit has now been discontinued.

Can't get..."diagnostic diagcab file"....to run.

Found 2-3 of Santas little helpers who claimed to be able to fix the issue...at a price....one claimed it was an issue of file associations.

jcmaxx1000:
Yes, that looked like the same fixit and I agree about the registry keys. I've run any fixit I could find that was supposed to fix vista update (some were associated with KB type updates) as well as some KB type manual update installs. I've even tried the fixit console but uninstalled when that didn't help. I was hit by some malware, that was why I ran your "all in one" repair tool. I tried running a repair from the disc that came with the computer but it says it is not compatable with my 64 bit windows version???(thanks gateway ). I tried a manual update component reset I found somewhere and after one restart and update attempt I got two messages; one said that my windows version may not be real and the other said there may be a .diagcab registry error. Then after next reboot it went back to "repair pending" restart message. I verified windows is  genuine. Why would it say "repair pending" instead of "update pending"? Seems significant. I haven't found anything that explains or shows what update registry entries should be or look like.
I should mention that I have a problem logging in to this site, both times I went to reply it said my password was incorrect. I had to reset the password with email then log in.

viidjej:
My laptop was running OK before I started messing...so I'll just do without WU for the future...4 yr old underpowered laptop anyway.  Run a bunch of security software also.  Time to look for another bargain....

I suspect it might have to do with the .NET software updates which "might" have moved things around...or maybe some other software because at one time the folder where some progs keep their data was moved...so I had to redo my backup method.  Seems that any outside prog would not be able to change folders for a basic Windows prog (WU)...and at the least MS would know what was going on?

I stopped seeing weekly "issues" after starting to run SpywareBlaster a good while back...now AV progs and SpybotS&D do the same kind of thing...block stuff.  The new version of Spybot is interesting.  Avast hasn't found anything for 2-3 yrs.

Shane:
It might be .net causing the trouble.

The only real way to fix .net is to truly remove it and reinstall it.

Use this tool
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2008/08/28/8904493.aspx

And then restart and then get .net frame work again.

Works every time I have trouble with .net on a customers machine :-)

Shane

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