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Windows Update Error 0x8024402C

Anonymous
2015-09-02T16:22:29+00:00

I have been having issues with windows update recently. I have ran a diagnostic tool on windows update and I keep getting this error 0x8024402C. What does it mean? What should I do to solve this error?

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-09-03T16:02:05+00:00

    Hi,

    Thanks for posting your query to Microsoft forum.

    Please follow the Method 1 to 5 provided in the given Microsoft article:

    Unable to install updates in Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2509997

    Which includes "0x8024402C"

    Hope this information is helpful. If the issue still persists, please post back for further assistance, we'll be glad to assist you.

    Thanks & regards,

    Isha Soni

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-09-04T18:23:10+00:00

    Had this and other error codes, 5 days into a new windows 7 install I have a updated system.  The other error codes were 0x80070003, 80080005, 0x8007002, 0x80190194, 0x8024000B.

    After installing Win 7 on a old XP system the first update was Win update agent.  After that install, when update was started it would run about 10 minutes and the cpu would top out at 100% .  I tried re installing the operating system to have the same thing happen.  Downloaded both Windows update checkers, ran them before, after and during, the failure.  Sometimes the update screen would stop with a error posted, if you ran it while the cpu was at 100%.  Search the net and the machine with the error code.  This is what I did to fix the problem.

    I installed KBKB3060716 not sure this helped but the point where it failed changed.

    Set the update program to- important updates only.  Reduce the number of up dates.

    Set the program to never autoupdate anything.

    Set the Windows Update service to manual.

    rebooted

    Open the C: drive

    created atemp folder.

    Open the Windows directory

    Found the file Windowsupdate.log and right clicked cut

    moved to atemp folder and clicked paste

    Open Windows directory

    Open  SoftwareDistribution directory

    Highlighted all folders and files and right clicked cut

     moved to atemp folder and clicked paste

    click start, typed run in search box

    Typed in Cmd /c ren %systemroot%\System32\Spupdsvc.exe Spupdsvc1.old  and entered

    Started Windows update

    Click install updates button

    Went off and did something else for 3 hrs.

    When I checked the screen said it was ready to over 150 updates.

    When I checked the windowsupdate.log file there was a line entry 1 hour 10 minutes after the last entry about updating datastore, about setting a second timeout time 6hr later.  No errors in the file that time. 

    I selected about 100 updated and started the install process.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-09-04T10:39:50+00:00

    Hi Isha, 

    thank you for the help but it seems like I have gotten another error. I guess I have a few updates I missed or something like that. The error code is 0x80070005. Thanks again!!

    Jad

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