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I've seen this problem 3 times now in the last month. 2 PC's with clean install of windows xp home 1 with a repair install of xp pro all 3 were SP2 disks. I went to update.microsoft.com and it promps for SP3 install which I did on all 3. The SP3 install seems to go fine and system works great, THEN update.microsoft.com or automatic updates finds several other post SP3 updates I believe and tries to install them. They download fine but update site or automatic both crash and say updates could not be installed.

I dug around site after site and finally found a page that said open wups.dll with regsvr32. I did that this morning and my automatic updates icon disapeared. Going to try all of them

regsvr32 wuapi.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng.dll
regsvr32 atl.dll
regsvr32 wucltui.dll
regsvr32 wups.dll

Tonight! I hope it works because it's a major issue and uninstalling SP3 is only a temp fix in my mind. I don't think a clean install would make any difference if your using a SP2 disk, be right back to square one. My live messenger installer also errored out, had to download and run the messenger 8.1 installer.

I think whats bad about this is M$ can't put an update out to fix this issue because automatic updates is busted lol, ironic eh? Going to be a rough road ahead for us all I think.