Error 0x8007043C

[Danny Lusk]

I just upgraded a Win98 machine, which worked fine, to Win
XP Pro. When I use IE and connect to the windowsupdate
site, I get error 0x8007043C and update fails.
Any ideas?

 

[TDP]

I just upgraded a Win98 machine, which worked fine, to Win
XP Pro. When I use IE and connect to the windowsupdate
site, I get error 0x8007043C and update fails.
Any ideas?

It could be that one or more of the services needed to run this are
stopped/disabled as I had this on a friends pc recently,to check do this:
right mouse on you My computer icon click on "Manage" in the left hand pane
expand the bottom set of programmes and click on "services" carefully look
down the list in the right pane and make sure that these 3 services are
running "Auto Updates","B.I.T.S." service(Background Intelligent Transfer
Service") and "Event logs Service" if one or all are not running just double
click them in turn and in the box that opens select "manual" or "Automatic"
then hit "Start" in the bottom pane then "apply" this should solve your
problem.Hope this helps.TDP.