On decommissioning of update servers for 2000, XP, (and Vista?) as of July 2019

**WinGlass** · March 19, 2022

Hi, does anyone know how to make WU work on Windows 2000 again. :dubbio:

**maile3241** · March 19, 2022

8 minutes ago, WinGlass said:

Hi, does anyone know how to make WU work on Windows 2000 again.

Yes, but that is a bit more complex. You have to run ProxhttpsProxy on another PC.

**AstroSkipper** · March 19, 2022

6 minutes ago, WinGlass said:

Hi, does anyone know how to make WU work on Windows 2000 again.

I do not use Windows 2000 but afaik MU can be restored there too. Go some pages back and read the conversation between @maile3241 and @WULover.

**AstroSkipper** · March 20, 2022

Hi to all, to avoid unnecessary questions and problems while trying to restore access to MU web site, I have modified and updated the content of my guide "Complete guide for restoring Microsoft Update in IE". Now all steps have been fully numbered for better reference and the order has been corrected to avoid problems when completing all steps. Any assistance should be much easier now! Furthermore I think this will increase the probability of success for all people trying to follow the guide.
Any opinions or suggestions for improvement are always welcome. :yes:
Here is the link once again:

Kind regards, AstroSkipper

Edited March 20, 2022 by AstroSkipper
correction

**LonghornXP** · March 20, 2022

42 minutes ago, AstroSkipper said:

Hi to all, to avoid unnecessary questions and problems while trying to restore access to MU web site, I have modified and updated the content of my guide "Complete guide for restoring Microsoft Update in IE". Now all steps have been numbered and the order of them has been corrected for better reference. Any assistance should be much easier now! Furthermore I think this will increase the probability of success for all people trying to follow the guide.
Any opinions or suggestions for improvement are always welcome.
Here is the link once again:

Kind regards, AstroSkipper

I'm gonna test it on my xp home pc

**AstroSkipper** · March 20, 2022

2 minutes ago, LonghornXP said:

I'm gonna test it on my xp home pc

Very good! Thanks a lot for testing!

**sunsetsansyy** · March 20, 2022

15 hours ago, maile3241 said:

Yes, but that is a bit more complex. You have to run ProxhttpsProxy on another PC.

How do you get ProxHTTPSProxy running on another pc and working? Last time I tried the console just got spammed with SSL errors?

**maile3241** · March 20, 2022

49 minutes ago, sunsetsansyy said:

How do you get ProxHTTPSProxy running on another pc and working? Last time I tried the console just got spammed with SSL errors?

Download this WU patch: https://download.ru/files/DMFZOv3t

First stop the Automatic Update service.

Copy the wuaueng.dll from the x86 folder to c:\winnt\system32\dllcache and to c:\winnt\system32.
Then run the .reg file. Restart the PC and launch WU.

You need this version of ProxhttpsProxy: https://download.ru/files/d4uaSsgD Cr. to @whenever on Tuopf

Start ProxhttpsProxy on your 2nd PC. Install the generated certificate in "local computer". You must install the same certificate in W2k. To do this, simply copy the certificate to W2k using a USB stick and also install the certificate in "local computer".
Run ipconfig in cmd on your 2nd PC and enter the IPv4 address in W2k in the proxy settings under secure and the port (usually 8079). Enable "Use http 1.1 through proxy" and Tls 1.0. Disable SSL 2.0.
Start ProxhttpsProxy on your 2nd PC and open WU in W2k.

To access WU in W2k you need to go to this page: http://fe2.update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/default.aspx?g_sconsumersite
Or check out this post:

W2k WU registry entries.reg

Edited March 20, 2022 by maile3241

**sunsetsansyy** · March 20, 2022

40 minutes ago, maile3241 said:

Download this WU patch: https://download.ru/files/DMFZOv3t

First stop the Automatic Update service.

Copy the wuaueng.dll from the x86 folder to c:\winnt\system32\dllcache and to c:\winnt\system32.
Then run the .reg file. Restart the PC and launch WU.

You need this version of ProxhttpsProxy: https://download.ru/files/d4uaSsgD Cr. to @whenever on Tuopf

Start ProxhttpsProxy on your 2nd PC. Install the generated certificate in "local computer". You must install the same certificate in W2k. To do this, simply copy the certificate to W2k using a USB stick and also install the certificate in "local computer".
Run ipconfig in cmd on your 2nd PC and enter the IPv4 address in W2k in the proxy settings under secure and the port (usually 8079). Enable "Use http 1.1 through proxy" and Tls 1.0. Disable SSL 2.0.
Start ProxhttpsProxy on your 2nd PC and open WU in W2k.

To access WU in W2k you need to go to this page: http://fe2.update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/default.aspx?g_sconsumersite
Or check out this post:

W2k WU registry entries.reg 499 B · 1 download

Is there any patches I need to install? I am just getting stuck on Checking if your computer has the latest version of windows updating software for use with the website.

EDIT: after it took forever to load I got Error code: 0x8DDD0004

Edited March 20, 2022 by sunsetsansyy

**maile3241** · March 20, 2022

On 3/20/2022 at 4:47 PM, sunsetsansyy said:

Is there any patches I need to install? I am just getting stuck on Checking if your computer has the latest version of windows updating software for use with the website.

EDIT: after it took forever to load I got Error code: 0x8DDD0004

OK. I see. You have a freshly installed W2k. You need IE5.5 Sp2, KB891861-v2 and the latest WU agent.

Edited April 5, 2022 by maile3241

**sunsetsansyy** · March 20, 2022

9 minutes ago, maile3241 said:

OK. I see. You have a freshly installed W2k. Download these updates first: https://i430vx.net/files/Win2k/Get working winupdate/

Ok so! New error, I am using a virtual machine with the VMTools installed so I don't understand why this has happened by if you could help that would be amazing.

Here are the 2 machines side by side and as u can see the error code is 0x80072F8F and is related to the time and date but as u can see they are both synced

**maile3241** · March 20, 2022

4 minutes ago, sunsetsansyy said:

Ok so! New error, I am using a virtual machine with the VMTools installed so I don't understand why this has happened by if you could help that would be amazing.

Here are the 2 machines side by side and as u can see the error code is 0x80072F8F and is related to the time and date but as u can see they are both synced

You installed the certificate in the wrong store. Install it like in the photo:

**sunsetsansyy** · March 20, 2022

6 minutes ago, maile3241 said:

You installed the certificate in the wrong store. Install it like in the photo:

EDIT: Ignore that, it seems I had to just replace it one more time and it worked perfectly. Getting many posts to the right place now seems to be working. Thank you!

Edited March 20, 2022 by sunsetsansyy

**AstroSkipper** · March 20, 2022

1 minute ago, sunsetsansyy said:

So for the most part I have gotten it working except for the fact whenever I start the windows update service again it replaces the DLL file from somewhere? I have copied the patched version into both the DLLCACHE and SYSTEM32 but its getting the file from somewhere else

When I restored MU web site in Windows XP, I had the same problem. You can disable SFC by patching a system file.

**sunsetsansyy** · March 20, 2022

Just now, AstroSkipper said:

When I restored MU web site in Windows XP, I had the same problem. You can disable SFC by patching a system file.

Yes, its working fine now I just had to keep trying until i got the prompt about unrecognised windows files

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