Back in my younger days, I helped tutor a few classmates who were having problems with our school's TRS-80 machines. In one case I joked that maybe the problems she saw were due to the machine not liking her. Her eyes got big and she asked me whether that could be it? :-)

(I reassured her that I was kidding, of course!) 

Over the last two weeks, every single machine I own (or that I use but Microsoft owns) -- all seven of them, have had Windows Update problems.

Now I vaguely recalled Scott Hanselman's post about a similar problem (Resetting Microsoft Update - Error 0x8024001D), and in three of the cases, that solution actually worked (the error codes varied a bit between them).

Of course note that the rename to use something other than the word "poo" and still work....

For the other four I just took the whole softwaredistribution directory and renamed it (after running net stop wuauserv) and that resolved the problem.

I can't help wondering if others are hitting problems here, too. The machines all get used in different ways and even updated via different means, so other than the fact that I am the main user of ll of them, I can't think of anything else in common -- they span laptops, desktops, and a tablet; some XP boxes, some Server 2003 boxes, and some Vista boxes.

Is anyone else seeing problems here? Or could it be that my machines just don't like me? :-)

 

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