28 Jun

Windows XP Pro - Automatic updates won’t run

Category: Windows'y stuff

I had not bothered about this for some time - but I thought I had better get it sorted now as I had not updated for a while.

I kept getting the error Automatic Updates, BITS and Event Log services not running. Even if you go to the services list and find that they are running it still does not work.

I found that the problem was with the Automatic Updates service that was not set to start up automatically - probably something I did a while back when I pretty much switched almost all the services off!

Anyway - to solve this problem - right click on the automatic updates service and change its start up mode to automatic, make sure RPC is running and then restart your machine.

That should do the trick!

Posted Saturday, June 28th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Filed Under Category: Windows'y stuff
Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

0

Comments are closed.