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Guest Bryan Elwood
Posted

Any idea what factors would cause all available high-priority updates for my

Windows 2000 machine to fail to install? Under Custom installation, as soon

as I press the Install Updates button, the Installing Updates dialog appears

and reports that some (meaning all) updates were not installed. I then

proceed to Check Your Update History. After checking several failed

updates, I see the following common message Error Code: 0x80246008.

 

Thanks for any suggestions,

Bryan

Guest PA Bear
Posted

You may receive an error message that contains the "0x8DDD0018" code or the

"0x80246008" code when you try to download updates from the Microsoft

Windows Update Web site or from the Microsoft Update Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910337

 

See

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsupdate/browse_frm/thread/eb8851ec8e1ec8a0/b1e3d4881449a604

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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)

MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)

AumHa VSOP & Admin DTS-L.org

 

Bryan Elwood wrote:

> Any idea what factors would cause all available high-priority updates for

> my

> Windows 2000 machine to fail to install? Under Custom installation, as

> soon

> as I press the Install Updates button, the Installing Updates dialog

> appears

> and reports that some (meaning all) updates were not installed. I then

> proceed to Check Your Update History. After checking several failed

> updates, I see the following common message Error Code: 0x80246008.

>

> Thanks for any suggestions,

> Bryan

Guest MowGreen [MVP]
Posted

0x80246008 - Failed to create the IBackgroundCopyManager interface to

BITS. The BITS service may have been disabled.

 

Does that explain it ? Hardly <w>

 

Which antivirus software is installed ? If it's a Symantec 'product',

then that would explain how BITS became problematic.

 

 

MowGreen [MVP 2003-2007]

===============

*-343-* FDNY

Never Forgotten

===============

 

 

 

Bryan Elwood wrote:

> Any idea what factors would cause all available high-priority updates for my

> Windows 2000 machine to fail to install? Under Custom installation, as soon

> as I press the Install Updates button, the Installing Updates dialog appears

> and reports that some (meaning all) updates were not installed. I then

> proceed to Check Your Update History. After checking several failed

> updates, I see the following common message Error Code: 0x80246008.

>

> Thanks for any suggestions,

> Bryan

>

>

Guest Bryan Elwood
Posted

Thanks guys. Turned out that "Windows Management Instrumentation Driver

Extensions" was disabled, which in turn, disabled BITS. And I do have

Norton AV. But all is well now.

 

Thanks again,

Bryan

Guest Arline
Posted

"Bryan Elwood" wrote:

> Thanks guys. Turned out that "Windows Management Instrumentation Driver

> Extensions" was disabled, which in turn, disabled BITS. And I do have

> Norton AV. But all is well now.

>

> Thanks again,

> Bryan

>

Bryan,

Sounds like you know what your doing. I'm not a pro a this. Can you give

me step by step details. I would really appreciate it.

Thanks,

Arline

>

Guest MowGreen [MVP]
Posted

Arline,

 

Click on Start > then Run > type in

 

services.msc

Click OK

(if Run is not on the Start menu, then either right click My Computer on

the Desktop or Start Menu and choose Manage. Click the plus sign next to

Services and Applications, then click on Services)

 

In the right frame, scroll down to ' Window Management Instrumentation

Driver Extensions '

Double click it and it's Properties window will open

The ' Startup type ' drop down window *should* show as Manual

If it's been Disabled, click the down arrow and set it to Manual, then

click Apply, OK.

Close the Services console [or Computer Management console if you chose

the second method to access Services.]

 

NOTE: There is also a ' Windows Management Instrumentation ' listed just

above ' Window Management Instrumentation Driver Extensions '.

That must be set to Automatic, AFAIK.

Please do not confuse the two.

 

 

MowGreen [MVP 2003-2007]

===============

*-343-* FDNY

Never Forgotten

===============

 

 

 

Arline wrote:

>

> "Bryan Elwood" wrote:

>

>

>>Thanks guys. Turned out that "Windows Management Instrumentation Driver

>>Extensions" was disabled, which in turn, disabled BITS. And I do have

>>Norton AV. But all is well now.

>>

>>Thanks again,

>>Bryan

>>

>

> Bryan,

> Sounds like you know what your doing. I'm not a pro a this. Can you give

> me step by step details. I would really appreciate it.

> Thanks,

> Arline

>

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