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This is a note from awhile ago, and I’m not sure what the original source for this solution is.

The Problem: The Service Pack 3 installation would start, but was unable to complete successfully.

The Solution involved registering a bunch of .DLL files by running the below commands. A popup appears after running each line.


net stop wuauserv
regsvr32 wuapi.dll
regsvr32 wuweb.dll
regsvr32 atl.dll
regsvr32 wups2.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng1.dll
regsvr32 wups.dll
regsvr32 MSXML3.dll
regsvr32 wucltui.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng.dll
net start wuauserv


I converted my main workstation at home to a virtual machine, and started connecting to it via RDP from a thin client machine. I found that images didn’t look quite right, and had banding instead of proper gradients. The color depth was set to 16-bit and couldn’t be raised, even when setting the depth higher using the RDP client.

Remote Desktop server on Windows XP, by default runs at a maximum 16-bit color depth. However up to 24-bit color is supported. Read the rest of this entry »