Event ID 20

[1boredguy]

Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x8007f01e: Security Update for Windows XP (KB899587).

Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x8007f01e: Security Update for Windows XP (KB896422).

These two updates just aren't installing. There is a very long wait for them to install, but they just don't do it.

Any suggestions? Thanks for any thoughts.

[Asin]

http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/archive/wuc.htm

This ^^ says that the catalog files aren't installing. I don't know if that helps.

[Munkaboo]

You aren't alone, i get this problem too. Please let me know if you fix it.

[luma]

Ugh... same issue here. I can no longer install any windows updates. I've run across suggestions to delete/rename WINDOWS\System32\CatRoot2, but that hasn't helped at all. I've contacted MS through their windows update support website, so we'll see if they have anything to add.

[1boredguy]

I fixed it.

This is how the problem came: It came from an unattended installation CD I made. I integrated Ryan's VM update pack with nLite 1.4 (old integration).

This is how i solved it: re-install with a CD that doesn't have the update pack integrated.

[ryang]

Oi, you're joking right?? Surely there's another way around this... I've now got 3 updates "waiting" to be installed because of this error.

[Martin Zugec]

Try to run this script:

@echo off
Echo . Registracia kniznic
regsvr32 /s msxml3.dll 
regsvr32 /s wups.dll
regsvr32 /s wuaueng.dll
Echo . Registracia skupin
wuauclt /detectnow /resetauthorization
Echo . Zastavenie sluzby
net stop wuauserv 
echo . Zmazanie DataStore
cd /d %windir%\SoftwareDistribution 
rd /s DataStore
Echo . Spustenie sluzby
net start wuauserv 
Echo . Zrestartovanie pocitaca
shutdown -r -f -t 01

[ryang]

Well I'll be damned... That worked like a charm!! Thanks heaps for that.