Windows XP and Windows Update Version 5

Windows XP and Windows Update Version 5 

October 10, 2004. Windows XP with all bug fixes applied except for Service Pack 2. Version 5 of Windows Update would not run from the Windows Update web site due to a 0x8DDD0018 error. The error message says that a required service is not running and lists the Automatic Updates service, the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) and the Event Log service. The first time I ran Windows Update, the first two of these services were not running. Then I shut down IE, started the services, started IE again and again went to the Windows update web site. It failed in the exact same way. Beats me why. I did not make the services start automatically, instead I manually started them. Their startup type was Manual.

October 11, 2004. Some research on the Internet turned up the explanation. It is sufficient for the BITS service to be running, however it is not sufficient for the Automatic Updates service to be running - it must also be set to an Automatic startup type. Changing the startup type fixed the problem.  

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