Error number: 0x80244019 in Windows XP Home SP2

Anonymous
2012-09-22T08:27:10+00:00

I just clean installed Win XP Home Edition Version 2002 SP 2 on a Dell Dimension 2400.

I am trying to install windows updates but I get Error number: 0x80244019.

I am able to browse the web through internet explorer on this computer. Connection is fine.

Please suggest how I can access windows updates? I would like to install Service Pack 3.

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Anonymous
2012-09-22T12:10:08+00:00

Hi,

Install SP3 by downloading and running from...

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=24

You can ignore the text that says that it is for network installations and also ignore the text advising Windows/Microsoft Update if only updating one PC.

Whether this will solve the 0x80244019 error is not certain. I know it will solve other errors but I have no specific knowledge of whether it will solve this error so please would you be kind enough to report back to us about this?

Tricky

EDIT: Many people are now reporting that SP3 does solve Windows Update error 0x80244019

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-09-30T03:37:59+00:00

    Hi,

    Install SP3 by downloading and running from...

    http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=24

    You can ignore the text that says that it is for network installations and also ignore the text advising Windows/Microsoft Update if only updating one PC.

    Whether this will solve the 0x80244019 error is not certain. I know it will solve other errors but I have no specific knowledge of whether it will solve this error so please would you be kind enough to report back to us about this?

    Tricky

    Hi, Tricky

    I downloaded SP3 from the link you provided. Just before the installer was about to start I got an error message giving me a long file path  "c:\Documents and Settings\Meridius\My documents\Downloads\WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-SNU.exe is not a valid Win32 Application" It will not let me download this SP. Please help me out!

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-09-30T00:48:54+00:00

    I just wanted to say that this is a very valuable link to a clean install of Win XP SP3. Every tech should have this install on a flash drive for earlier versions of Windows.

    I had the same error code and this worked great. Another piece of feed back is that when I tried to run Windows update it installed the first activeX program but before it could run the second one I got an error code 0x80072EE2 which I found out was a connection issue. At the time I was using a remote desktop program. I just closed Windows update and then reopened it and I get no error codes and update runs fine.

    Thanks for the help

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-09-25T09:52:50+00:00

    Thanks for the feedback.

    Tricky

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-09-25T09:08:05+00:00

    thanks, this worked for me.

    i was able to download and install the XP Service Pack 3 from the link you gave. After that Windows Update has been running smoothly without any errors.

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