Windows Update Error (80244FFF)

I'm currently taking a look at Process Monitor, but filtering the log to something browseable is going to take a while.

What I do is just filter for  Operation Is Write  (or actually lately more generally,  Category Is Write).  Doing that shows you all the writes to all the logs correlated with accurate timestamps and lengths.  You can use ProcMon's Ctrl-J to open a file you are interested in.  So, if you are using Notepad to view it, it is useful to turn off Word Wrap and turn on the Status bar.  Then you can press End and see how long a line is.  Then you can try to match up with a trace record:  both the time in the log and the length and further try to confirm your assumption by doing the same thing with preceding or following records and trace entries.  (Note that the time in the log will be earlier than the trace entry's timestamp and the length of the write may be 1 or 2 bytes bigger.)  Then, once you are confident that the write you have selected is the one which output the log record you are interested in you can remove the filter and go back to find out what might have been happening to have caused it.

Good luck

Robert

Disk checks and log file parsing is what went on back in November when this first happened.  There are too many people with the same problem for this to require unqualified end users to debug.  Further, this is not an isolated issue, this is a Microsoft problem and we're on a Microsoft forum.  This error number didn't magically appear out of thin air and I'm getting kind of tired of Microsoft ignoring it.

Here's an idea:  Someone drag a developer into the codebase and find out what piece of code generates that error.  Then ask them pretty please to find out what it means.

After 6 months of farming this out to the MVP amateur sleauthing communitiy, it's about time Microsoft owned up to the problem and quit wasting all of our time.

Hard to dispute ScanIAm says in his 6 May post, especially given the looming deadline, as non-enterprise users at least are likely somewhat disappointed in the multiple problems in getting KB2919355 to install correctly (providing, of course they have prerequisite updates such as KB2919442 installed,

and the steps outlined in the Microsoft Support articles Install the latest Windows 8.1 Update and Windows Update error 80070002 have proved of no avail).

      Nevertheless, users determined to eliminate this headache may wish to attempt the steps for installing KB2919355 on a clean-booted box running only Windows services as outlined by Thenrik in his May 7 2014 post to page 90 of the thread (yes, as Community Moderator, MVP and renowned patch expert Susan Bradley mentioned on an earlier page, that thread is approaching a "world record" for length) "Windows 8.1 Update 1 Failing to Install with errors 80070020, 80073712 and 0x800f081f".  Given that he reports having performed this successfully on three different builds, it would appear there may be more than mere anecdotal evidence that this approach works; one caution to bear in mind is the reported expenditure of time required, 6-8 hours per machine - which of course reinforces the position of ScanIAm and many other Community members that Microsoft needs to resolve this problem.  In their defense, the volume of notifications I've received about new revisions of KB2919355 would seem to imply that this is the current "hot topic" in the Halls of Redmond (the latest updated package released 5 May and the fact that the 7 May revision of the accompanying Knowledge base article is the 19th would surely confirm such).

Mika,

There's an article in the following link which has similarities to your own problem: http://www.kapilarya.com/fix-windows-8-1-unable-to-check-for-new-windows-updates

Only the error code differs, but since it concerns Windows inability to search for new updates which is the same as your own error, it might be worth your while taking a look at it.

I gave up and did a full reinstall from a Windows 8.1 image. I'm still in the process of reinstalling.. well, everything, but at least Windows Update is working.

Here's the list of updates that Windows Update gave me afterwards:

HotFixID                                        Description     InstalledOn

--------                                        -----------     -----------

KB2899189_Microsoft-Windows-CameraCodec-Package Update          20140705

KB2843630                                       Update          20140705

KB2862152                                       Security Update 20140705

KB2868626                                       Security Update 20140705

KB2876331                                       Security Update 20140705

KB2883200                                       Update          20140705

KB2884846                                       Update          20140705

KB2887595                                       Update          20140705

KB2892074                                       Security Update 20140705

KB2893294                                       Security Update 20140705

KB2894029                                       Update          20140705

KB2894179                                       Update          20140705

KB2894853                                       Update          20140705

KB2898514                                       Update          20140705

KB2898742                                       Update          20140705

KB2898871                                       Security Update 20140705

KB2900986                                       Security Update 20140705

KB2901101                                       Update          20140705

KB2901128                                       Security Update 20140705

KB2902892                                       Update          20140705

KB2903939                                       Update          20140705

KB2904266                                       Update          20140705

KB2906956                                       Update          20140705

KB2908174                                       Update          20140705

KB2909210                                       Security Update 20140705

KB2909569                                       Update          20140705

KB2911106                                       Update          20140705

KB2911134                                       Update          20140705

KB2912390                                       Security Update 20140705

KB2913152                                       Update          20140705

KB2913270                                       Update          20140705

KB2913760                                       Update          20140705

KB2914218                                       Update          20140705

KB2916036                                       Security Update 20140705

KB2917929                                       Update          20140705

KB2917993                                       Update          20140705

KB2919355                                       Update          20140705

KB2919394                                       Update          20140705

KB2919442                                       Update          20140705

KB2919907                                       Update          20140705

KB2922229                                       Security Update 20140705

KB2923300                                       Update          20140705

KB2923528                                       Update          20140705

KB2923768                                       Update          20140705

KB2925418                                       Security Update 20140705

KB2928680                                       Update          20140705

KB2929961                                       Security Update 20140705

KB2930275                                       Security Update 20140705

KB2933809                                       Update          20140705

KB2936068                                       Security Update 20140705

KB2939087                                       Update          20140705

KB2942844                                       Update          20140705

KB2959977                                       Update          20140705

KB2961887                                       Update          20140705

KB2962140                                       Update          20140705

KB2964358                                       Security Update 20140705

KB2964444                                       Security Update 20140705

KB2964757                                       Update          20140705

KB976002                                        Update          20140705

One thing that immediately grabs my attention is that the list is much, much longer than what WSUS Offline gave me, so it's not a comprehensive substitute for the real deal.