[Error number: 0x8DDD0004] when using Microsoft Update from Win7
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From: Yetiman on 2 Jun 2010 12:10 I got a new HP notebook Elitebook 8540p with Windows 7 Professional preinstalled. When trying to run Windows Update everything works ok. When I try to run Microsoft Update (http://update.microsoft.com) in order to update all the other Microsoft programs like Office etc I get [Error number: 0x8DDD0004]. Strange thing is that the first add-on ('Windows Update' from 'Microsoft Windows Component Publisher') shows as unknown program from unknown publisher... I would expect it is signed as coming from Microsoft??? As per instruction from Microsoft I followed Article ID 914224 as this shall be also applicable for Windows 7 (even if there were lots of error messages when registering the DLLs and the services have different names) but I figured out how to rename the SoftwareDistribution folder... however without success. Also a Chkdsk, SFC and a CleanBoot (as instructed by Microsoft) did not help. Latest suggestion from Microsoft was an Inplace Upgrade or a fresh install. However I did not get any feedback yet if and how that will effect my installed programs. Does anybody has an idea what to do? I dont see any infos on Microsoft Update under Windows 7 in the newsgroups, however I have seen somewhere that Microsoft Update is NOT working under Vista... Does Microsoft Update really work with Windows 7 as well? Any idea on the effect of an Inplace Upgrade to my installed programs? Or is it the best to drop Windows 7 for now and use the (in the notebook shipment probably for a good reason included) XP Pro / SP3 downgrade and wait until Windows 7 SP2 comes out (as instructed by most of my friends)? |