Quite frankly, Windows Update is driving me mad. I cannot download the
Genuine Advantage Validation Tool, which means updates do not happen
automatically.

I have tried:

Setting security settings to Default:Medium
Accepting any Active X controls MS demands.
Putting relevant URLs in the trsuted sites box
Renaming SoftwareDistribution on c:\windows which just mean that Update
didn't even show me the screen to download the validation thing.

I have tried using:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/h...s/default.mspx
which does nothing when "Validate Now" is clicked on.

The error message when I try to get the Validation tool to download is:

Installation Failure

Error Code: 0x80070005
Try to install the update again, or request help from one of the
following resources.

which helpfully enough is not an error I can find in the troubleshooting
guide.

Does anyone have any idea what is going wrong here, because I am
intensly frustrated by this. By the way, my XP system is totally
genuine and came installed with the new laptop.

Thanks.

Billy Zed wrote:

Have a look here:
http://tinyurl.com/hjaz4

Plenty of hits for that error code.

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Billy Zed <zedthebed@ehrhweuirhiewu.com> wrote:

|>Quite frankly, Windows Update is driving me mad. I cannot download the
|>Genuine Advantage Validation Tool, which means updates do not happen
|>automatically.

This use'd to work, not so sure now, but it's worth a try
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/28...enuine_ad.html

|>I have tried:
|>
|>Setting security settings to Default:Medium
|>Accepting any Active X controls MS demands.
|>Putting relevant URLs in the trsuted sites box
|>Renaming SoftwareDistribution on c:\windows which just mean that Update
|>didn't even show me the screen to download the validation thing.
|>
|>I have tried using:
|>http://www.microsoft.com/resources/h...s/default.mspx
|>which does nothing when "Validate Now" is clicked on.
|>
|>The error message when I try to get the Validation tool to download is:
|>
|> Installation Failure
|>
|>Error Code: 0x80070005
|>Try to install the update again, or request help from one of the
|>following resources.
|>
|>which helpfully enough is not an error I can find in the troubleshooting
|>guide.
|>
|>Does anyone have any idea what is going wrong here, because I am
|>intensly frustrated by this. By the way, my XP system is totally
|>genuine and came installed with the new laptop.
|>
|>Thanks.


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Billy Zed wrote:
The following, which worked for me, is copied from a post
in the "microsoft.public.windowsupdate" newsgroup. The post
is entitled "A solution to WGA (KB892130) failure to install"
and was posted by "barrowhill" at 15:29 on 04/03/2006. Here's
what he/she said:

I, like a lot of people with genuine copies of windows, have
experienced problems with installing KB892130. I've been in
and out of a lot of posts on the subject and tried various
offered solutions which have (and have not) worked for some
people. After numerous variations, the following has worked
and I'm now able to run the update service as it was intended.

Download psexec.exe from:-

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsExec.html

and put the file in root directory (C:\)

Download the WGA update executable from:-

http://www.download.windowsupdate.co...82dcea49a0.exe


and install in C:\temp.

Rename the file in C:\temp to WGA.exe (original file toooooo long)

At DOS command line type:-

psexec -i -s c:\temp\WGA.exe

The above tested and works - for me at least - Hope it works for others

Many thanks for all the inputs that got me to this position - there
are too many to mention by name - I just grateful to the newsgroups

In message <p9fVf.29162$u31.1928@newsfe2-win.ntli.net>,
Billy Zed took 32 lines to impart the following:


http://groups.google.com/group/micro...c601b751880667

<Quote>
The WGA diagnostic tool has been updated to correct this problem seen
by some customers. Please download and execute it from:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=52012

After running the tool, please return to Windows Update and try it
again.
<Unquote>
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