Comments on: Error(s) Found: Code 80244019 when trying to run Windows Updates in Windows Vista

By: Dan Fiore

Dan Fiore — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:13:10 +0000

This happened to me on Windows 7 Ultimate after installing SQL server. The registry tweak did the trick. Thx!!

By: Dee

Dee — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:16:51 +0000

I have this error code on Windows 7 and this solution worked like a charm! Thank you very much.

By: Dale Gedge

Dale Gedge — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:01:43 +0000

Yeah great this worked changed the dword value from 1 to 0

Many thanks

Dale

By: Eduardo Carpena

Eduardo Carpena — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:28:50 +0000

It Works !!!

By: Roberto

Roberto — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:36:47 +0000

Looks like a dns problem Folks. I have had the problem for awhile and finally found the time to really work on it. Thanks to this thread I resolved it. I had manual dns entries in my ipconfiguration. I recorded them and allowed my machine to be automatically assigned DNS. (don’t even remember why i used static entries in the first place.) Now i am just finishing updating the machine.

Thanks all.

By: Alexandet

Alexandet — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:46:10 +0000

I got a problem, when I navegated to Microsoft/Windows directories, “WindowsUpdate/AU” were missing, any help?

By: Silvio6

Silvio6 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:15:34 +0000

Hello,

In my case, I was using Windows Seven in a Virtual PC 2007.

DNS was set to automatic, and ipconfig/all was showing 3 DNS picked up, 1-My router, 2-My ISP DNS and 3-My second ISP DNS.

My DHCP was set to a virtual address 10.192.131.254.
I simply set my DNS to this same address.

I hope this will help some1, as it seems different proxy problems have the same error message.

Cheers

By: Kie

Kie — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:39:16 +0000

surendra (AND ALL OTHERS WHO CAN’T LOCATE THE WINUPD FOLDER)

1 Click Start
2 All Programs
3 Accessories
4 Command Prompt
5 Type “Regedit”
6 SOFTWARE
7 Policies
8 Microsoft
9 Windows
10 Right Click on Windows and Select “Find”
11 Type in “WindowsUpdate”.. FindNext
12 If the value for “DontPromptForWinUpd” is set to 1.. Then change the value to 0

By: Francis

Francis — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:53:47 +0000

hey for some reason my computer has the same error code but when i go to regedit and follow all the steps to “Windows” there is no folder labeled “Windows Update” therefore i have no idea what to do. Also my computer is a Vista. If anyone can help me thanks a bunch

By: surendra

surendra — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:25:32 +0000

There is not \WindowsUpdate\AU
So now what do I do?

By: nilofc

nilofc — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:18:02 +0000

For Windows 7:

(1) Go to Control Panel
(2) Click Network and Sharing Center
(3) Click “Manage Wireless Network”
(4) Click on your Network Connection on the list
(5) …then Click Adapter Properties
(6) Click Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4). Click Properties
(7) Check Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:27:50 +0000

I am really really REALLY happy to download updates again. I’m even so happy that I figured I’d leave a comment!

In fact I never really expected to be able to update ever again without reinstalling Vista. What helped me was
Malwarebytes anti-malware

A long time ago Spyware Search&Destroy found a Trojan-DNS changer, I thought it had removed it completely. Well, I thought wrong.
After a scan with Malwarebytes it found 6 entries in my register, fixed those, and right now I’m downloading 63 updates (550,3 MB).

Thank you very much
Peter

By: tehkore

tehkore — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:54:21 +0000

“Hi
Ive been messing around with exactly this problem for a couple of days now. Windows would not update as it couldne find the server and my google was also messed up, sending me to you tube and a pay per click site whenever i selected a link. I did all the virus removal stuff, to no avail. Finally, i gave the Dutch guys idea a go and finally sorted the problem. The translation he gave needed a little fettling so here is my version. Im running Vista home premium by the way.
1 go to control panel
2 select network and sharing center
3 under network (public network) click view status next to local area connection
4 on the popup box that appears, click properties and click continue on the acknowledgement (if it appears)
5 scroll down to “Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)” and select it with a single click
6 Select properties
7 Under the general tab you will see two sets of boxes, one to select the IP address and one to select the DNS server. Both of these should be set to obtain automatically. If you have numbers in the boxes and the “use the following (IP/DNS server) address is selected, make a note of the numbers (just in case!) and select automatic instead. Click ok and close down all open pages.
I then had to close windows update as it was coming upo with unable to do an update as it was already doing on. Either reboot or alternatively (and quicker) click start, type cmd in the search, on the command prompt icon right click and select run as administrator and acknowledge the popup. type net stop wuauserve and press enter. This will stop windows update. close the command prompt and run windows update and hey presto. Good luck!”

^^^^

THIS WORKED LIKE A CHARM!!!!!
ANYONE THAT HAD THE 80244019 ERROR DEFFO NEEDS TO TRY THIS OUT BECAUSE IT WORKED PERFECTLY!

JUST MAKE SURE U REBOOT AFTER YOU MAKE ALL THE CHANGES AND THEN GO INTO UPDATE.

Thanks A LOT Drew!!!!

By: Helen Wolfe

Helen Wolfe — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:32:00 +0000

I followed your steps all the way to
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\SOFTWARE
\Policies
\Microsoft
\Windows
\WindowsUpdate
\AU

There is not \WindowsUpdate\AU
So now what do I do?

By: LoverlyinVan

LoverlyinVan — Fri, 29 May 2009 04:40:52 +0000

SO – I am extatic I found this site and these suggestions, I’ve been racking my brains for nearly 3 months uninstalling and reinstalling my mcaffee to learn that it wasn’t mcaffee. I’ve been running SuperAntiSpyware now for 2 hours and it’s picked up 4 trojans (including the changer and a second called .dropper Gen). Not sure why it’s taking so long to finish… any thoughts?