Service registration is missing or corrupt

After days of trial and error, this did the trick for me:

1. Open command prompt and type "NET STOP WUAUSERV". This will stop the spazzing Windows Update Service.
2. Follow up with typing "WUAUCLT /DETECTNOW". This will detect, download, and process all necessary updates behind the scenes. Depending on how many your system requires, this could take A LOT of time. I had 110 updates needed, so it took a while.

Is this a permanent fix? Probably not, but it should get you up to date on all critical updates released at the point in time these commands are run (hopefully).

Is there any more on this issue?

 

I recently have re-built 2 machines from fresh using the Dell Win XP - SP3 OEM disk and when going to update it just runs and runs and never actually seems to find anything. I have set Windows update for a certain time and that doesnt kick in either.

 

I have ensured that both the Automatic Updates & the BITS service are both running again i noticed a Fix-It solution from http://support.microsoft.com/mats/windows_update/?wa=wsignin1.0 and when installing this it required .NET frameworks 2 which i installed for it to run. When the Fix-It tool ran through it found errors and fixed some bar the 1 and this was shows as 0x80070005 Service registration is missing or corrupt. Thus now landing me to this page.

 

Both machines are doing the same... Anyone have any ideas much appriciated.

 

Thanks

Dan.

Reg "Corupt" has got me too.

Their ending support on XP in April http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/endofsupport.aspx

..,looks like their shutting the gates early..

They wont be happy until they've forced everyone into Win8. Its impossible to get xp to run right anymore.

Harder to find drivers than ever before too.They've destroyed the web. I wish I could say Ive seen revolts for less than this but i havent...In less than 5 years the internet will be worthless, unless the people are brainless idiots./

"their will always be more dumb people than smart ones"  Im going back to BSD

I have this same problem:  "Service registration is missing or corrupt"

I ran the fix it from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971058

And it returned this report:

Issues found	Issues found	Issues found
Service registration is missing or corrupt	Not fixed
	Reset service registration	Succeeded		<br>	---	---	---
Check for missing or corrupt files	Fixed
	Repair missing or corrupt files	Succeeded		<br>	---	---	---
Windows Update error 0x8007000D(2013-11-30-T-02_27_46P)	Fixed
	Resetting Windows Update data store	Succeeded		<br>	---	---	---
Problems installing recent updates	Fixed
	Repair Windows Update	Succeeded		<br>	---	---	---

Issues checked	Issues checked	Issues checked
Windows Update environment variables are incorrect	Checked
Some security settings are missing or have been changed<br><br><br>Some security settings are missing or have been changed	Checked
Corrupt Patch Registry keys	Checked
Windows Update services are not running	Checked
Cryptographic service components are not registered	Checked

I too have experienced this issue many times.  I always spend a vast amount of time trying to work a solution, today though its time to put some comments to microsoft to resolve this issue.  I am not a lone voice with a single issue, this is clearly related to demise of xp in a few months from now and MS  don't give a tinkers that we can't update.  I 've tried all the fixits, tips tricks, dot net etc. No resolution.  Microsoft are you listening, respond with a fix.

I too have experienced this issue many times.  I always spend a vast amount of time trying to work a solution, today though its time to put some comments to microsoft to resolve this issue.  I am not a lone voice with a single issue, this is clearly related to demise of xp in a few months from now and MS  don't give a tinkers that we can't update.  I 've tried all the fixits, tips tricks, dot net etc. No resolution.  Microsoft are you listening, respond with a fix.

Hi scot,

The solution I posted in the following link worked according to the OP:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-windows_update/background-intelligent-transfer-service/62418f22-4803-41a2-9e41-5f4616366d47