Windows Vista AutoUpdate error 8000FFFF

re: Windows Vista AutoUpdate error 8000FFFF

Phil Harland — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:07:55 GMT

Thanks , this fix worked for me after spending 14 days on many other suggestions. I am very grateful for your post.

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Kailash — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:18:54 GMT

Hi Phil, you're most welcome. I couldn't find a resolution online too, which is why I posted it. I'm glad to see that it has been of use!

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Vincent — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:57:40 GMT

Thanks, Update works again. I heard rumors about reinstalling Vista and whatnot, so I'm verey pleased to see a simple, working solution.

Thanks again for posting! :)

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Rodger — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:16:21 GMT

My tech ability is low. When I run "regedit" I see HKEY not HKLM and I'm not finding the files you listed. Can you help me?

Thanks, Rodger

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Kailash — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:38:29 GMT

Hi Rodger, you need to look under the HKEY Local Machine - that's what LM stands for.

To execute this commend you need to click on Start. Then type cmd. When you see the Command application, right click on it and Run as Admin

Type in the command that's posted above and that should execute it fine.

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Rodger — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:16:28 GMT

Kailash, Thank you so much. I was able to find the file, delete it and now, 18 updates later, my system is current once again. I really appreciate your help.

Rodger

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Rodger — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:43:12 GMT

Your fix corrected my problem. Thanks Kailash

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Mike — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:53:40 GMT

copy this file:reg delete HKLM\Components /v AdvancedInstallersNeedResolving

# re: Windows Vista AutoUpdate error 8000FFFF

Hi Rodger, you need to look under the HKEY Local Machine - that's what LM stands for.

To execute this commend you need to click on Start. Then type cmd.in search box. When you see the Command application, right click on it and Run as Admin

Type in the command that's posted above and that should execute it fine.

Monday, October 01, 2007 1:38 PM by Kailash

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Steven Sherman — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:51:36 GMT

I've opened up the registry editor and I looked under HKEY Local Machine and cannot find LM. I don't understand how to enter the fix. Can you help me?

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Steven Sherman — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:36:30 GMT

Where under Local Machine do you type in the fix and how do you do that? Could you give a step by step. I'm nervous about being in the registry. Thank you,

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Kailash — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:05:03 GMT

Hi Steven,

Apologies for not responding earlier. You do not have to go into the registry with regedit.

Click vista pearl, and type cmd in the search box.

In the programs list, you'll find an app called cmd. Right Click on it and select "Run as administrator"

On the command prompt, type in the following:

reg delete HKLM\Components /v AdvancedInstallersNeedResolving

that's all it takes.

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Jim — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:22:17 GMT

Worked for me too. Thanks for the post.

Jim

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Lee — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:45:26 GMT

Perfect! Solved my problem instantly. Thnx Kailash

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Aris — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:06:46 GMT

kailash, when i want to delete the command it says that "The system was unable to find the specific registry key or value" how do i solve it??

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Jos — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:52:15 GMT

thx: This worked for me after spending several hours searching.

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Petemeister — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:54:47 GMT

Thank you thank you thank you.

Couldn't find this anywhere else - was facing a re-install. You're a star!

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Gazza — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:26:03 GMT

Hi, i have just tried this and get error 80070002 instead

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Sarah — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:28:51 GMT

Thank you so much for this. I've searched the internet for months and contacted Microsoft support with no help. But this is wonderful and it's the one suggestion to solving this problem that I felt confident doing. Feel much better now.

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Wendy Olson — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:42:45 GMT

What a great Thanksgiving gift! I decided that this weekend - one way or another - I was going to fix this problem. After months, I found your solution. Thanks so much!

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Christopher — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:10:40 GMT

WOOHOO!! Thanks for your command line fix...Everyone lease note, the registry key is not always present (I did not see mine) but I entered your command line fix and it worked!.

Thanks for your time and effort to let us know!

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Philip88 — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:56:45 GMT

Hello. I did the command line fix.

Now, however, I get error message

80070643.

Any help would be sorely appreciated.

I took MSsupport advice and checked whether the OSE was set to "manual". It was.

So now I don't know what to do.

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Joseph — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:19:30 GMT

Thank you! I just fixed the error using your suggestion. I <3 teh intarwebs!

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pero — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:10:05 GMT

thanks. solve in one second..

LOL

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hari — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:21:49 GMT

now i get this error WindowsUpdate_80073712

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Seymour — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:52:12 GMT

Great, resolved my Windows Vista update problem and also resolved my problem of installing Adobe reader 8 and Photoshop Elements 6.

Thanks

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Captain C — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:38:24 GMT

Worked like a charm! Thanks ... :)

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Alper — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:48:18 GMT

Thank you so much for this solution. I hope it does not have a side effect (!).

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Jeff — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:12:17 GMT

Thsnks very much, I am a tech for a major computer company and just got this issue, and this post kept me from having to re-install Windows for a customer. Thanks again

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tee — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:34:24 GMT

Thanks the command worked well for me and i am prompted for new updates now.

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Mark C — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:08:57 GMT

Thank you, resolved the problem imediately.

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uploading — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:37:21 GMT

Hey guys,

before do this command i must have uninstall this update KB929777 ?

Cause i do all this work on cmd correctly but still "The system was unable to find the specific registry key or value"

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Robear Dyer, MS MVP — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:35:25 GMT

Letting you know that I've posted a reference to this blog entry in Windows Update newsgroup and the posted fix has helped to resolve 8000FFFF errors for many other Vista users.

cf. http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsupdate/browse_frm/thread/e690844c67a01b6d/e62adc58475bff5e

~Robear Dyer

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

https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/profile/robear.dyer

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jen — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:53:09 GMT

This fix is not working. The screen states that the file could not be found. Any suggestions?

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Mattsix — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:08:52 GMT

Kailash,

You're heaven-sent! Thanks a lot. It went smoothly. I've been trouble shooting this for almost a week now. Thanks again!

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ken27 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:55:13 GMT

Help. i don't understand how to use the above fix. i have that in my components folder already. do i delete it?

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tonydoss — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:46:12 GMT

Hi there,

I tried this fix but windows says it couldn't find AdvancedInstallersNeedResolving... I got Vista Home Premium. Any help, please?

Thanks

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Biju — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:22:53 GMT

i run this command but again same problem.when i run this command its showing there is no such key in registry.every time i restarting my machine windows update showing new update ready to install but when i try to install same error coming.I re-installed my operative system(windows vista ultimate) but no use same error....i have 4gb memory.please give me suitable solution.....

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Mike — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:27:20 GMT

Wow that seemed to work great! I was starting to get a little frustrated by this problem

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Cosmin — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:15:39 GMT

ok...so I did all of that, cmd, etc, pasted the "solution", hit enter, but then it asked me: delete the registry value AdvancedInstallersNeedResolving (Yes/No)?

What do I do now?? If I write yes and hit enter, it says: error: the system was unable to find the specified key registry or value

Please, help!!!

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Haley — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:35:06 GMT

Thanks SO MUCH for this, I have been searching for months also, and my laptop is brand new. However, I get "syntax error" for "reg delete" and cannot make it work.

Any suggestions? (I'm just a civilian!!)

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alkass — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:20:50 GMT

I followed your fix correctly but my system responded with "The system was unable to find the specific registry key or value". Please help me to solve this also. I have 17 updates not installed.

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harold — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:58:29 GMT

omg!

ty so much. it took a couple of tries to get it right, but, working like a charm. i thought i was going to have to reformat my drive. you are truly my new best friend

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Bill King — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:02:37 GMT

Hey Kalish,

Thank you, Thank you, After I used your solution I then had error code 80073712 but I found a fix for that. Again, Many thanks

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Robert — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:29:40 GMT

Just copy and paste the command into the windows explorer address bar and hit return.

Its much easier than manually opening the command box.

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Shankara — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:38:55 GMT

Wow this rocks! It worked on my Vista Home Premium machine and has solved all update related problems.

To those of you waiting for MS help, just try this first. It takes just 1 minute! trust me

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Gypsynet — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:15:18 GMT

Don't know if you heard about the debacle of the early SP1 update for Vista. I got hit hard. You are my saving grace with this fix. Rock on.

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Socos — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:35:37 GMT

It would not update!! Tryed the renaming of Software Distribution folder, also eleting PendingXmldentifier"

"NextQueueEntryIndex"

"AdvancedInstallersNeedResolving"

under the registry key: HKLM\Components.

Nothing works! Help, please.

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elmadir — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:10:47 GMT

BIG: THANK YOU!

Running: reg delete HKLM\Components /v AdvancedInstallersNeedResolving

changed this dreadful error into something different, but then I applied advice from http://www.howtofixcomputers.com/forums/windows-vista/working-cure-vista-update-headaches-133816.html and everything now seems to work fine.

Cheers,

Wojtek

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Leonidas — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:38:01 GMT

thank you it worked for me thanks again

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Martin — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:16:22 GMT

The reg thingie worked good!

Thanks.

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rustedshut@gmail.com — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:41:28 GMT

I'm an IT professional and run into this problem frequently. I used this article yesterday to fix one Vista Business Dell XPS laptop yesterday. I used it to fix two more today. Thank you very much!

I used Windows Explorer's address bar to enter:

reg delete HKLM\Components /v AdvancedInstallersNeedResolving and after choosing Y (yes) on the command prompt. I still had to uninstall the 929777 update from Control Panel> Programs & Features> View Installed Updates and finally reboot.

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Jon — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:56:12 GMT

Thx guys, this works for me so far ;)

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flyashy — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:09:26 GMT

Okay I had something similar happening a little while back and found a solution quite accidentally.

I don't remember if I had the same error (8000FFFF) but i remember there were two possible errors one with a series starting with 8xxxx..& the other with 7xxxx... Now incidentally I had trouble logging into my homail account and I google for it and realised that it had to do with my wireless router (netgear). It seems that the default value for MTU in netgear is 1500 while pppoe prefers 1492. Simple i changed the value and viola not only Hotmail loaded but I could also get the automatic updates going again.

I hope this helps someone.

cheers,

ashy

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GriMCW — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:37:02 GMT

I tried this, i tried uninstalling the update 929777 too, neither has worked.

it says the registry entry doesn't exist.

any other leads perhaps?

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Julie — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:36:37 GMT

Need help with error 8000FFFF. Trying tirelessly to clear error. Nothing seems to work.

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vinay — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:53:36 GMT

hey kailash,

thanks for the solution.

worked beautifully

chees

vinay

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Kathleen — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:09:30 GMT

Hi,

I am receiving this error when I am attenpting system restore because of the AutoUpdate loop my computer is going through (3 out of 3 installing 0% complete, shutdown, restart & repeat). I tried the reg delete but when the computer restarts it goes straight back to 3out of 3 screen so I checked the registry and AdvancedInstallersNeedResolving was still there after I deleted it. What am I doing wrong?

error WindowsUpdate_80073712

Mel — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:01:50 GMT

I receive this error when trying to run windows updates? any help would be great.

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A.K. — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:53:40 GMT

This worked perfectly. I spent many hours and many weekends trying to resolve this issue. Kailash, you da man! Many thanks!

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Noel — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:07:27 GMT

HI Kailash,

I have tried several pointers from different websites and their suggestions but nothing has been fixed so I will try yours and hopefully it will work for me as well.

There should be more people like you on this planet that is willing to share their knowledge to others.

Thanks.

Regards,

Noel

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nhel_41 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:09:12 GMT

Hi Kailash,

8000ffff.

Windows cannot locate the registry value set for that thing. How will I be able to update m computer? there any other way?

Thanks,

Noel

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crayz — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:06:20 GMT

Wow!! after months of searching finally it works 22 important updates no wonder it was getting errors can i say it i love you seriously thank you Kailash

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FLOYD MARTIN — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:08:24 GMT

Before you do all of the things you have been told, First turn off you firewall and see it if takes it!

I deleted all the files, pulled my hair out only to find it was my Norton Firewall!

Too make matters worse after through downloading 8000FFFF, I got a message saying that the download was not necessary for my system.

Aint life grand?

But Then you must hide/ignore the download in the settings or it will never go away!

Floyd

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Herbert P SmithIII — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:40:00 GMT

it worked thanks Go start\regedit\hk_loca_machine\Conponponets

then you should see AdvancedInstallersNeedResolving in the right corner right click on it and delete should fix

the problem thanks again

Herb

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Allen — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:08:49 GMT

Kailash,

You da man!! This problem has been a thorn in my side since I purchased a Toshiba Satellite laptop with Vista on it months ago. I tried everything I knew to fix it with no luck. I just wanted you to know your registry edit works for Toshiba products too.

Thank You for posting your fix for others to use.

Allen

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JP — Sun, 11 May 2008 18:31:24 GMT

You're the man! Thanks for fixing my issue! :)

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alex — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:40:15 GMT

Thanks very much. Truly appreciate it.

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Imran Ahmed — Thu, 29 May 2008 06:37:13 GMT

Awesome man ,

I m a tech from HP Technical Support.I had a customer calling in for the same issue after contacting Microsoft.Well I followed your fix and it worked like magic.

Thnax,

Imran

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Harikrishna — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:23:43 GMT

Hey man you are amazing this step is very helpful and it worked amazingly on my customers computer.thank you very much

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David — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:08:41 GMT

Error 8000FFFF can be caused by amount or RAM in the system. If a system has more than 3.5Gig in the system Windows Vista or XP 32 bit wont recognise this so Vista SP1 needs to be installed to recognise this or XP 64 bit installed.

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nyumetsu — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:56:38 GMT

I had high hopes for this, but then it seems as if I can't modify my registry.

When prompted with yes/no, I type y.

"ERROR: Access is denied."

This seems like a very amateur thing. Did I not set the correct administrator privileges or something?

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Tapatun aka Che — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:04:45 GMT

Thx, m8! :)

It really works, i`ve just reinstalled my windows vista, 32 instead of 64 and faced with dis problem.

I hope there are no any side effect too :)

From Russia with Love :D

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Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:08:13 GMT

i tried this but get error: access denied. any ideas?

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Jaz Dosanjh — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:18:46 GMT

Thanks a lot man SERIOUS, You don't understand how much this means to me.. I've reformatted once already today.. and it still came up and trust me people, if your still unsure about doing this then don't be, its worked perfectly fine for me and I wish i did some more research before I reformatted again...

Thanks mate!! :):)

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Brandon Friesen — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:36:02 GMT

Your awesome fixed my new computer right up!!!

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Richie Boy — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:37:58 GMT

I did what u say man. The fix starts a MSDOS window and asks me if i would like to uninstall a large file. I clicked yes.

Then i run windows update and the error keeps appearing.

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meez — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:40:46 GMT

How it worked for me:

1 Klicked on start button and in the search field in the big menu in vista that pops right up i enterd

reg delete HKLM\Components /v AdvancedInstallersNeedResolving

then i typed yes and pressed enter and opend update again and it worked! thanks :D

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Sverre Enger — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:17:01 GMT

This worked for me! thank you sooo much!

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Ron Thomas — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:02:40 GMT

Thanks for the fix...worked a treat..much appreciated

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Nick — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:06:32 GMT

This worked for me also and was really simple to do.... THANK YOU so much!

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Markus Schlegel — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:09:54 GMT

Yeah. That did it. Have a Dell Prescision M90 with 4gb ram.

Things worked fine until recently (same system config since January 2008).

Strange thing.

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SpyderCanopus — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:41:27 GMT

Tried it and now i have a different error number. Oh well, it was worth a shot.

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Uli — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:24:45 GMT

Thank you thank you thank you.

Couldn't find this anywhere else - was facing a re-install. You're really a star!

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Kildar — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:38:50 GMT

I would like to thank everyone who posted about that reg fix. I have been going nuts trying to figure out how to fix that error. What I did was remove 2 gigs of ram and then run the reg fix

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Mike — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:02:09 GMT

OK, THIS WORKED! I have a Dell Inspiron 1420 running 32-bit operating system, Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1, and 3 GB of RAM. Out of the blue, I get this stupid alert from the Taskbar that I am not up to date, and of course when I try to update, I get the "windows could not search for new updates" and error code 8000ffff. When I googled this, I spent 2 hours on all the different forums with the different ideas on what to try (reducing memory, deleting files in regedit, somehting about a hot fix, and one and on it went). All of them sounded very technical, but most seemed to be from back in 2007. In contrast, this thread here seems to have people posting all the way through 2008 that this fix was working for them. So, although this fix is technical too, I crossed my fingers and went ahead and did it, praying I woulddn't permanently damage my registry or something. Well, like magic, it worked and about 15 new updates just got properly downloaded. Thank god for this fix. Dell and Microsoft folks are USELESS. Theie websites are useless. Their Help resources are useless.

And, I hate Vista. Repeat: I hate Vista. I had none of this with XP. I have had nothing but random things like this occur with Vista.

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guillom2127 — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 07:51:31 GMT

thx: This worked perfect for me.

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Patricia — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:50:43 GMT

Thank you for the fix, it worked perfectly. I now got 16 critical updates and 17 recommended updates. Working great!

Patty

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Rina87 — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:35:19 GMT

this worked perfectly thank you so much

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deb bolen — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:28:50 GMT

PRAISE THE LORD!!!! I have just purchased my new laptop 2 months ago and having this trouble scared me to death! I'm not a whizz at this computer thing but your step by step insructions where the perfect fix!!! Now downloading 20 different updates but at least they are available to me!!!! Thanks so very much!!!!

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James Keeling — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:21:49 GMT

I am VERY tech savvy and I couldn't figure this one out for the life of me. The error plagued me for months and I could not find a working fix for the life of me.

Your fix worked PERFECTLY. Thanks so much! You are helping a ton of people by publishing this.

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Wonderful Mother — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:30:30 GMT

Thank you for the fix. Worked perfectly.

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Scott — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:50:11 GMT

Thanks! This really worked for me. I did have trouble using the comand line - I kept getting a syntax error. I was finnaly able to find it and delete it directly by going from the start menu to: computer - local disk c - windows - reg edit(right click and run as Admin) - components - InstallersNeedResolving (one of 5 files listed). When I went to Windows Update then I was able to download all 29 available updates without a problem - including a windows update update. Thanks again!!

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Lisa — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:49:14 GMT

Thank you so much! After 2 frustrating weeks, something that finally worked!

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Praveen Surendran — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:10:35 GMT

Hats Off to the folks who resolved this !!! Its working just fine. Thank you...

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Rowena — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:29:52 GMT

Thanks so much, this worked for me also. I haven't been able to update for the past 5 months and hadn't been able to find a fix for it until now.

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CERSAN — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:05:50 GMT

Incredibly easy to follow the instructions and works as magic! Thank you so much!

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Kristen — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:10:49 GMT

OMG!!!

I did exactly what was said. Command prompt, typed in reg delete HKLM\Components /v AdvancedInstallersNeedResolving it then asked Yes/No and i typed yes. Then I went to my windows update and it asked me to download windows update update, so I did. And OMG it worked!!!! I had 70 updates to install and its been working great. I've been doing my happy dance ever since..much appreciated. xoxoxox

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Paddy Ryan — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:36:49 GMT

Many thanks, spot on fix. Could those slackers at microsoft please add this excellent fix to their database

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Kyri R — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:58:26 GMT

THANK YOU!!! that popup at startup was rly starting 2 tick me off and microsoft support is useless.

Again ty!

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Robear Dyer, MS MVP — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:20:55 GMT

When I open Windows Update in Control Panel, I receive an error code of 8000FFFF

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946414

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John — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:53:43 GMT

Ppl plz stop saying thank-you, because he needs to see what some ppl been having issues, not seeing "Thanks!!." I keep getting "ERROR : the system was unable to find the specified registry key or value."

Please some1 help me

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Kailash — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:43:57 GMT

Hi Guys,

For those who found the fix unsatisfactory, I added the URL provided by Robear Dyer - that has 2 other fixes not covered by my post.

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Kevin0ne — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 01:38:44 GMT

This link to Microsoft page fixed the problem automaticly

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946414

Yahoo

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Ulli — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:11:25 GMT

Thanks so much. All the other fixes did not work and I was ready to re-install.

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Frank — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:21:21 GMT

Works Great on my HP DV2910US laptop, Vista Premium, I had problems with windows update it was hanging on de .net 3.5 update. After removing Registy items works fine agian

Thanks!

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Ben — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:05:01 GMT

Thanks alot, my windows update was causing GB's of error reports but its sweet now.

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Bobbie Files — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:01:17 GMT

The link to: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946414

was the ONLY thing that got rid of the error message.

A million thanks to Robear Dyer and this blog!!

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Steve — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:46:38 GMT

Thank you Kailash you are a legend. This was my first tip-toed forray into the resgistry and damn it felt good! The error was preventing me form downloading SP1 and the windows Live IM too. Thanks again for the fix or I would have been stuck with the release version until it fell too far behind to function.

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lapstam — Sun, 24 May 2009 04:27:01 GMT

To make it easier: copy the string kindly posted by Kailash; go to Start > Run (Or use the win key + r) and paste it in the field, hit Enter. The cmd window will open, check the top if it says you're running as admin. In the black cmd window there should now be a question if you like to delete this key, type the anser (yes) and hit enter. That should be it.

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jean whitton — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:00:02 GMT

Code 80073712 now i get this error code after trying all the fixes and deleting the values

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dababo — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:57:06 GMT

when i did this cmd said the system was unable to find the specified registry key or value

help anyone?

re: Windows Vista AutoUpdate error 8000FFFF

mico — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:23:43 GMT

PLZ. i have a problem for installing this update for windows media centre and tried to install it manually by the stand alone from MS and this didnt work.

Also disabled firewall and antivirus and didnt work too.

Does this fix help me or have any side effects cuz i baught a new laptop ????

I'll be grateful if anyone replies

thnx alot

re: Windows Vista AutoUpdate error 8000FFFF

Craig Lewis — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:56:29 GMT

Thanks alot pal, i've been looking for a solution for weeks now!

I'd like to buy you a gift =D

re: Windows Vista AutoUpdate error 8000FFFF

nix — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:22:38 GMT

10x man. I spent 2 days to fix this issue.