Windows XP SP3 breaking Microsoft Updates fix
Since Microsoft can’t get their head out of their ass i thought i would post this fix here. If you update to SP3 and you can no longer install updates from the windows update system you will need to register the wups2.dll file.
The file is located in c:/windows/system32/
double click wups2.dll and choose “Open With”
Now Choose “Select the program from a list” and hit “OK”
Now Click on “Browse”
A window will pop up now for you to choose the path to the file to open with.
Click on “My Computer”
Then choose your C drive
Next choose your Windows folder
And then your system32 folder.
Inside the system 32 folder is a program called “regsvr32″ Choose and open that program.
Now it will take you back to the Open with screen and you should see “Microsoft(C) Register Server in the List.
Choose OK and you should see a success screen.
That is it!
Now you can use Windows update again and your updates will install this time.
Hope this was helpful to some.
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