Stealth Windows update prevents XP repair
Thursday, September 27th, 2007If you use a Windows XP CD to perform a repair of XP, you’ll find that Windows Update won’t work correctly afterwards. There are some DLLs that come with the latest version of WU that don’t register with the system, and this prevents WU from running correctly. There is no official fix from Microsoft as of this writing, but it’s pretty easy to fix things manually.
Windows Secrets has all the details here.