Guest JKBichsel Posted July 24, 2007 Posted July 24, 2007 This worked for me. I renamed the file in the servicestartup folder to .old and windowsupdate now works great. Jed "TaurArian [MS-MVP]" wrote: > Posted by: Mila - > <snip> In my case it was wups.dll in > C:\WINDOWS\system32\SoftwareDistribution\Setup\ServiceStartup\wups.dll\5.8.0.2469 > folder. After removing this file, windowsupdate works great. > Mila <snip> > > Some additional information on this error from Torgeir, Microsoft MVP > > <snip> > > Hi, > > If the things in TaurArian's post didn't apply or work, it is most likely a > COM+ issue. > > First, verify that the "COM+ Event System" service is not disabled or not > functioning: > > Press Start and Run, and then run this command: > services.msc > > Locate the "COM+ Event System" entry, and double click on it. Startup type > should be set to "Manual", and if the service is not already running, press > the Start button to see if it starts successfully. > > If the steps above where ok, see if the steps in this previous post fixes > the problem (applies to WinXP as well): > > From: DBQ <DBQ@discussions.microsoft.com> > Subject: Re: 0x8007041D W2K Server Try All > Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:30:03 -0700 > Message-ID: <B7B2BCF2-44EB-46AA-95B1-00A42DCB35E1@microsoft.com> > Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsupdate > > <quote> > We with a little help from MS It is fixed. > > Two issued needed repairing. > > 1. COM+, > This required cleaning up a damaged COM+ catalog details at: > http://support.microsoft.com/?id=315296 > > 2. Replacement of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft > \Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Svchost for another working machine. > > </quote> > > -- > torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway > <snip> > > > -- > ================================== > TaurArian [MS-MVP] 2005-2007 - Australia > ================================== > http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm > "Need more help? http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=phen-us6527 > (Links to web pages and MSKB Articles are posted for the purposes of keeping > the information current) > > > "windows update error number 0x8007041D" <windows update error number > 0x8007041D@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:34B35D0E-7559-4CB6-B24C-0F07448F0D09@microsoft.com... > > > > >
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