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MU (Microsoft Update) fails, Error number 0xC8000408

Posted on Monday, 19 October 2009No Comment

My backup PC (2003 DIY desktop, W2K, IE6) has been duly updated each month for years using MU [link] , last time was last week on 13 Oct (2nd Tuesday). Today, discovering (on another PC, 2006 12in laptop, Win XP Pro, IE6) that a lot of updates have been posted AFTER last Tuesday, I came on my backup PC and launched MU. This time it launched a NEW big splash screen saying (approx, from my memory) “New! With Microsoft Update you can now update Windows and Office at the same time!” (yes, Microsoft just discovered that itself had built MU some years|decades|centuries ago).


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