Maybe your computer doesn't like you?

re: Maybe your computer doesn't like you?

Mike Dimmick — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 11:57:33 GMT

There was a workstation at work which (IIRC after installing XP SP2) would no longer receive updates. I think this was before Scott published his guide, but I did more or less the same. It still wouldn't install updates. Nothing in KB was any help. I don't think it was failing WGA.

Since the computer didn't hold any critical data, being used mainly to load software onto handheld computers, I repaved the box - after which, it worked fine.

re: Maybe your computer doesn't like you?

Mads Houmann — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 13:51:17 GMT

I recently had the Windows Update service crash after every reboot on my main PC - taking down the svchost.exe process hosting most of the Windows services.

Thought the PC was hosed as it became unresponsive as soon as the crash occurred, but I managed stop the update service, clean out the update directory and re-register the update service DLLs.

Then things were back to normal.

re: Maybe your computer doesn't like you?

Ben Cooke — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 02:16:57 GMT

On one of my old systems Windows Update (which was what it was at the time) wouldn't run. It would give an error much like the one in your example, though with more zeroes. The Automatic Updates client failed with the same error message, observed from the Windows Update logs.

I never did find out what was up with that because the machine died and I got another one, which has been working okay.

re: Maybe your computer doesn't like you?

BeachGeek — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:16:10 GMT

Have 11 XP boxes with this problem (0x8024001D).

Can't find a common thread between them or why another with the same hardware and basically the same software work fine.

Some boxes are full auto update, some completely manual, and 1 or 2 set to only notify.

Have to find a solution besides repaving. Repaving doesn't go over well.

re: Maybe your computer doesn't like you?

Michael S. Kaplan — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:41:15 GMT

All of my 8024001D problems were solved with the given solution. I am down to one single Vista machine getting an 8024402C that nothing seems to be able to help.

re: Maybe your computer doesn't like you?

Dries Verdoes — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:43:44 GMT

Windows Update error 8024402C For windows vista