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Vista Update Service missing

Hello,

I am trying to solve an issue that seems to be asked before but none of the suggested solution have worked. My aim is NOT to format the computer.
So, I keep encountering an 80070424 error with Windows update. When I try to install the update Agent installer I get Fatal Error, without any code. Anything other update that i try to install manually gives me an error of a missing or ungregistered service. Having checked two Vista machine healthy has wups2.dll in registry whereas the second machine doesn't. Apparently, please correctly if I am wrong, I seem to have an unregistered service. How do I solve this??????

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I have the exact same problem, Vista laptop x64 and I am unable to obtain Windows updates.  I have gone over all the steps I could find on Experts-Exchange so far.  I tried downloading Vista SP2 and I got an error that states ERROR SERVICE DOES NOT EXIST 0x80070424 which is oddly enough the same error code I get when trying to do a Windows Update out of control panel.  Can anyone help here?
Have you activeted your Windows OS installation ?
Hi gkarydis,

Have you tried running Dial-a-fix? Here's a link http://wiki.lunarsoft.net/wiki/Dial-a-fix
Yes I tried that, it doesn't run against Vista
I ended up wiping the machine.  I only had the weekend to work on it and my buddy has to go back to school now so we had to wipe it.  
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