Security Centre Could Not Change Automatic Update Settings – Windows XP
Had a very annoying problem with Automatic Update & Security Centre on Windows XP earlier today.
Had the red icon warning that automatic updates were turned off. Clicked the icon which opens Windows Security Centre tried to enable Automatic Updates but wouldn’t work instead it gave me a lovely message stating
“Security Centre Could Not Change Automatic Update Settings”
… very helpful!
I found out that somehow Windows XP had gone a little screwy on the Windows Update side of things and more importantly i found out how to get Windows Update & Security Centre talking nicely to each other.
Here’s how I fixed this problem:
Click Start, select Run (or hold WinKey + R) and type:
regsvr32 wuapi.dll
Press enter after this and wait for the success message
“DllRegisterServer in filename.dll succeeded”
Then do the same for all the files below:
regsvr32 wuaueng.dll
regsvr32 atl.dll
regsvr32 wucltui.dll
regsvr32 wups.dll
Hope this helps you. If it does give me a tweet and let me know :)
If not, i guess it’s back to Google for you!
Note: There may be another reason for this…
If, when visiting the Windows Update website and searching for available updates, you see the 0x8007043B error
This error may occur if WUAUSERV and BITS services are not configured correctly in the windows registry.
See Microsoft article here: http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/v5consumer/showarticle.aspx?articleid=19&ln=en