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Recently I Freemaned my work PC. Everything worked fine for a few weeks, but over the past month, Windows Update hasn't worked. The updates would download, but when the install started, things would just sit there. The PC was usable, but updates never installed. I did some web searched but didn't come up with anything specific. I finally posted a message in a newsgroup and got help from Steve Wechsler (aka MowGreen), a Windows MVP. He suspected some part of Windows Update didn't start correctly and had me reregister the Windows Update DLLs. Here's what I did, all from the command window.

net stop wuauserv
regsvr32 wuapi.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng1.dll
regsvr32 wuauserv.dll
regsvr32 wucltui.dll
regsvr32 wups2.dll
regsvr32 wups.dll
regsvr32 wuweb.dll
net start wuauserv

Sure enough, that fixed things. My work PC is now up to date.