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i also found your advice worked but i must note that this problem only
started to occur after i installed sp2. whats up with that, anyone knows?

"Reggie" wrote:

> Nikhto,
>
> I also encountered the problem and read some posts below and came up with
> the answer. Even if all the services that are mentioned are started, they
> must be set to "Automatic". It is not absolutely clear why the services must
> be set to automatic, but I'm guessing that there are cases when installing an
> update requires the user to reboot the computer and the update needs for
> certain services to be running at bootup. Just a hunch. Hope this helps.
>
> Reggie
>
> "Nikhto" wrote:
>
> > When going to the Windows Update page I get error message 0x8DDD0018.
> > I've enabled and started Automatic Update (even though I didn't neeed it
> > before)
> > I've enabled and started Background Intelligent Transfer Service
> > Events Log was already started
> > Still getting the same error message!
> >
> > System Info:
> > OS: Windows XP Pro SP2
> > CPU: Pentium P4 2.4GHz
> > RAM: RAMBUS 1.5Gb
> > HDD: IDE Seagate 40Gb 7Gb free
> >
> > Can anyone help me?
> >