WinGlass

So I installed XP on an old laptop of mine and ever since I installed Office 2010 on it Microsoft Update took about 10 minutes to check for updates, then I installed Office 2010 SP2 from MU/once it checked for updates and now Microsoft Update is taking a very long time to check for updates, it's been like 10 minutes now and it's still checking for updates, is this Office 2010's fault?

Interesting, I thought going to update.microsoft.com would just redirect to fe2.update.microsoft.com nowadays.

Thanks, and yes it helped me a lot, and I will upvote it.

Some awesome news: I made an XP VM and I followed all the steps and HOLY CRAP I GOT IT WORKING!!! Screenshot: https://ibb.co/SBCGmNx

I thought I did all of the steps but it appears I did not , and yes about the "ProxHTTPS" part I meant HTTPSProxy, I got mixed up. But thank you, when I get home soon I'll make a XP VM and I'll report back if I have succeeded or if I ran to a problem.

Yeah you're right, I might have missed a step and maybe I didn't notice it. But what I've done so far (in order): 1. After installing XP and installing VMWare Tools I updated the certifcates using Cert Updater or whatever it's called. 2. Then I upgraded IE to version 8 3. After that, I applied that POSReady .reg file 4. I installed those four updates and they installed successfully (and yes I did restart after installing and all went well) 5. Then I used the Restore_WU_XP_2003 thing and that dreadful Windows File Protection message popped up after that was done, I clicked Cancel on the box then I restarted and that was successful. 6. I opened the IE settings and did the following: Did the thing that would stop IE from redirecting the Windows Update site infinitely, and yes I did set the Trusted Sites bar to the highest. Unchecked all of the SSL and TLS options (except TLS 1.2, and yes I did "add" TLS 1.1 and 1.2 prior to this step). And "Check for server certificate revocation" was already unchecked btw. 7. And then I installed the certificate for ProxHTTPSProxy (and after I tried ProxHTTPSProxy, I installed the one for ProxHTTPS), then I opened ProxHTTPSProxy and called up Windows Update and it errored out right when it checks for updates, and with ProxHTTPS, it errors as well but with a different error code. (And yes I did download the config files made by you I think). (And fyi, I deleted the VM because I got annoyed eventually, when I get home I'll try again)

Now I'm getting 0x80072F78

Thanks, but I've already done that but I'll read them again to see if I missed anything, and also, I'm using HTTPSProxy instead of ProxHTTPSProxy now to see if I get something and now I'm getting 0x80072F8F, which says: "Your computer's date and time appear to be out of sync with an update certificate. To fix this: 1. In Control Panel, open Date and Time Properties. 2. Ensure that the date and time are correct." But my certificates are up to date and my time and date are correct, so I'm guessing this is coming from HTTPSProxy.

This is my first post on here but I've been following along on this long bulky thread and I'm getting an 0x80072F78 error on Windows Update, I've followed all the steps and I currently have XP SP3, what do I do? Thanks.