Trying to run Windows update on a Win2K Pro box sometime after installing SP4 I got the Error 0x800A0046 error. Tried all the fixes that have been posted by M$ without luck. Tried the fixes I found through newsgroups, google etc such as RPC, BITS, auto updates etc to local and still no luck.
In the mean time my son, who thought he was doing me a favor, installed the WinXP Pro with SP2 upgrade I had purchased a couple months earlier but not yet installed. I hadn’t installed it because I was trying to find a solution to the error I was getting. So now I have the same error showing on the now upgraded to WinXP box.
With both OS’s I was getting the icon in the Sys Tray telling me an update was available from M$, but when I click on it it just goes away for approx 1 min and comes back.
I’m not a guru on M$ but can usually find my way around for soultions. This one has me stumped. I really don’t want to have to format and re-install. Seems it would be easier to put in a new HDD and move what I want from the old if there is no solution for this.