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Feb 9, 2009 By Jared Heinrichs 13 Comments

Windows XP Missing Automatic Updates service

Windows XP Update fails because it is missing Automatic updates service / Automatic update service will not start.

I came accross this when working on a customers machine.

The first thing you will want to do is download the latest version of Dail-a-fix. Run the windows update and MSI fixer. Next you should open a command prompt by hitting: START – run – "cmd". In the command box window type:

regsvr32 wuaeng.dll

This will re-register this service.

EXTRA NOTE – An inplace repair install of XP will not correct this issue.

Filed Under: Windows XP

Comments

  1. Grr says

    May 6, 2011 at 5:03 pm

    Very useful tip..thanks

  2. Michael Kean says

    May 31, 2011 at 10:17 pm

    You missed an a – it’s regsvr32 wuaueng.dll

    Worked for me 🙂 Thanks.

  3. Jared Heinrichs says

    Jun 1, 2011 at 5:56 am

    Thanks! Sorry about the Typo.

  4. Alan in Fleetwood, uk says

    Jun 22, 2011 at 12:07 pm

    many thanks worked a treat ~~ with the ‘a’ lol

  5. Bill says

    Aug 22, 2011 at 10:44 pm

    This worked Great. Many thanks!!!

  6. Dave R says

    Sep 10, 2011 at 5:11 am

    Thanks fixed the problem for me too

    regsvr32 wuaueng.dll

  7. DStones says

    Sep 29, 2011 at 5:26 am

    Lifesaver! I’ve tried about 10 proposed solutions with no results before i came across yours.

    Don’t know if correcting the typo on the post is possible or not, almost got discouraged until i read comments! haha.

    Thanks man!
    Dstones

  8. tom says

    Dec 10, 2011 at 1:59 pm

    http://winplat.net/post/2011/12/11/Windows-update-service-missing.aspx

  9. Eugene says

    Dec 29, 2011 at 12:31 pm

    Worked great! Thanks for sharing!!

  10. Djr says

    Jan 1, 2012 at 4:58 pm

    Excellent. This had been bugging me for months. Id never heard of the dial a fix tool before but worked like a charm!
    Not sure why it happened in the first place but glad its fixed.

    Thanks again.

    Djr

  11. Sariel Leung says

    Jan 5, 2012 at 12:13 am

    Works, thank you very much

  12. TheLazyComic says

    Jan 26, 2012 at 1:48 am

    Thanks for this. I was about ready to toss a hand grenade into my PC… and run from it. After days and days of no luck, I found this great fix tool. Thank you.

  13. Miss Kim says

    Oct 23, 2012 at 7:17 pm

    Thank you so much. Somehow Automatic Update service was lost on my Windows XP laptop, which I hadn’t used for several months. I had tried several fixes, and had lost touch on XP as my PC is Windows 7. I just ran regsvr32 wuaueng.dll, without Dial-A-Fix and it still worked. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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