I have an XP SP1 scripted build that was working perfectly well with the old windowsupdate.microsoft.com. When this was updated to the new site, I get the download and scan OK but when I try either the Express install or the Custom install I get an error page.

(I'm also having problems with my SUS server, see my other thread)

Has anyone else got problems with the new update website. It only seems to be with the scripted build. A manual build works perfectly OK.

What does the error message say?

Error page says:

We're Sorry error no 0x80244021

Windows update has encountered an error and cannot display the requested page.

please try this . You have Windows XP service pack 1 on yur machine.

here is the desc

Update for Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) 2.0 and WinHTTP 5.1 (KB842773)

and download it from here

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&DisplayLang=en

Maybe you got the virus... because my friend of internet even had this problem... but he can't remember what error message says..so he format hard disk and reinstall XP first... then install XP SP2 and he has no problem now.

The BITS update didn't make a difference. I found something on google refering to the error number being an authentication error against ISA server, which we are using, so I'll have a look at that next.

try enabling "automatic" for BITS in services. obtainable from Start>run>services.msc