my automatic update functin says that it is turned off when i never turned it
off, and when i try to turn it on , I get a message that says " that it cant
be turned on". I've tried everything even did the whole thing by gong to run
then type services.msc and try to start it tat way but nothing works. can
someone help me?

Re: update problems by TaurArian

TaurArian
Fri Jul 11 19:39:55 PDT 2008

Considerations: -

System may be infected with malware "Vundo"
http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Entry.aspx?name=Win32%2fVundo

Service does not start and displays "Error 1058"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/241584

You cannot manually start the Automatic Updates service and you receive an "Error 1058"
error message on a computer that is running Windows XP or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
2005
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896224

"Could not start the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Service. Error 1058" error message when
you manually start the Remote Procedure Call service
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/838428



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"brandon" <brandon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B3725237-F717-4A60-B254-990E2D55994F@microsoft.com...
| my automatic update functin says that it is turned off when i never turned it
| off, and when i try to turn it on , I get a message that says " that it cant
| be turned on". I've tried everything even did the whole thing by gong to run
| then type services.msc and try to start it tat way but nothing works. can
| someone help me?



RE: update problems by jzapata

jzapata
Fri Jul 11 23:28:01 PDT 2008

I just received an update from Zone Alarm that resolved the issue. Zone
Alarm identified the KB951978 issue. Once I updated the program no more
worries. It was a pain in the interim......Good luck!!


"brandon" wrote:

> my automatic update functin says that it is turned off when i never turned it
> off, and when i try to turn it on , I get a message that says " that it cant
> be turned on". I've tried everything even did the whole thing by gong to run
> then type services.msc and try to start it tat way but nothing works. can
> someone help me?