Regarding the manual approach to updating Windows XP SP2 via the Windows Update (WU) web site [refer to:
http://bbs.blackviper.com/index.php/topic,1059.0.html], versus the Automatic approach, which includes setting the Automatic Updates (
AU) service to
Automatic (started) and the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (
BITS) to
Manual (not started)...
Today, I discovered a relationship between opening
Add or Remove Programs and the following "DCOM error" message that gets logged in the
Event Viewer under the
System section:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: DCOM
Event Category: None
Event ID: 10005
Date: 8/2/2008
Time: 10:15:58 PM
User: Pawluk
Computer: Pawluk
Description: DCOM got error "The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. " attempting to start the service wuauserv with arguments "" in order to run the server: {E60687F7-01A1-40AA-86AC-DB1CBF673334}
When
AU is set to
Disabled and I click to open
Add or Remove Programs the above "DCOM error" is logged to the
Event Viewer.
However, when
AU is set to
Manual and I click to open
Add or Remove Programs the above "DCOM error" does not appear.
I suppose there may be something wrong with my operating system and that's why I get this error. However, I prefer to believe that the relationship between
AU and
Add or Remove Programs that generates this "DCOM error" is just another Microsoft system irregularity.
For those whom also prefer the manual approach to WU, have you experienced this "DCOM error" relationship with
Add or Remove Programs?
Regards,
Pawluk
