Automatic Updates - Error Message 1058

[Tom]

I'm trying to get our PC back up and running again after a virus but can't
get automatic updates to work, I keep getting the following error message
when I go into services.msc and try to 'start' it after setting it to
'automatic':

could not start the automatic updates service on local computer error 1058

I'm assuming that this is why I can't install SP2 as well as during setup
it: cannot copy the file explorer.exe

Any ideas would be most welcome, anything has got to be better than a full
re-install which was going to be my next step. Many thanks

Tom

 

[db.·.. >]

you can manually
download the sp2 file
from microsoft.

then you can boot
into safemode and
launch that sp2
file to initiate
the installation.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...BE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en