Hi
See if this one helps:
When searching for available updates on the Windows Update site,
you see the 0x800A01AD error while looking for updates
http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/v5consumer/showarticle.aspx?articleid=13&ln=en
If that didn't help, try this one:
You may receive an error message when you search for available
updates on the Windows Update Web site
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=883821
<quote>
0x800A01AD error code
To resolve this error, register the Wuaueng.dll file. To do this,
follow these steps:
1. Click Start, click Run, type regsvr32 Wuaueng.dll, and then
click OK two times.
</quote>
Do the same fot this two DLLs as well:
qmgr.dll
qmgrprxy.dll
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torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
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