Comments on: Windows Update – Error Code 80073712

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:02:16 +0000

Frank Grubbs: WAY TO GO – IT WORKS ************

By: sittal

sittal — Fri, 27 May 2011 15:55:13 +0000

Sorry to bump this, but after a week of working on a computer for a friend, this page led me to fix it. Not sure what step it was. but I did everything in one go (didnt have pending.xml though), rebooted and updates began downloading by themselves

thanks folks

By: MarkTech

MarkTech — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:33:34 +0000

Same error while working on a customer’s laptop when trying to run Windows update in Vista 32 bit. No service packs installed, In fact no updates showing at all. Has Google desktop installed but I disabled in msconfig.

Most suggestions near the beginning of this thread and others are to run sfc /scannow. Tried that and got error message that an update was pending and to restart the computer and try again. Did that and did that. No change. The key word pending got me curious and I found the pending.xml file in c:\windows\winsxs folder. Had to take ownership of it then added the user Everyone and gave it full control. Then I was able to delete the file.

Restarted the computer and installed SP1 and SP2 no problem. Everything working now.

By: J CRANE

J CRANE — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:03:43 +0000

MY WIFE IS SITTING HERE WITH A MAC AND HAVING NO PROBLEMS. I DON,T EVEN WANT TO TELL HER WHAT I AM TRYING TO DO WITH ALL OF MY CODES!

By: Mitchell Nemteanu

Mitchell Nemteanu — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 02:12:39 +0000

Microsoft sucks and leads the world at the same time. This is scary. We are doomed!

By: Lynn

Lynn — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:09:54 +0000

For over over a year I have tried to install vista sp2 and never managed as I kept getting the Error Code 80073712 dispite following instructions (some very complex) on every website I could find (including this thread) but, what did work was the very simple fix given by
ComputechApril 8th, 2009 at 2:16 am

Well done Computech

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 04:08:46 +0000

Same here. The updater did a self-update and now it updates normally.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:43:22 +0000

Deleted Pending.xml Updater comes to life

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:35:28 +0000

Glomerulus’ fix (posted October 9 2008) above worked for me.

By: Windows Vista Update – pendig.xml löschen - watermeyer.info

Windows Vista Update – pendig.xml löschen - watermeyer.info — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:16:06 +0000

[...] Blog Post bei SaintJohnShawn Veröffentlicht am Freitag, den 12. Februar 2010 um 18:14 Uhr Abgelegt unter: Lösung, Software Tags: 80073712, berechtigung, ntfs, Windows, windows update Trackback-Adresse Kommentare verfolgen oder selbst einen verfassen Gelesen: 3 | zuletzt: 12. February 2010 [...]