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Windows XP: Restore Automatic Updates after database corruption

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While reviewing the event logs on my Windows XP client, I encountered these two errors:

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Event Type: Error
Event Source: ESENT
Event Category: (3)
Event ID: 453
Date: 2/11/2009
Time: 1:39:16 PM
User: N/A
Computer: IVAN-VM-01
Description: wuaueng.dll (3172) SUS20ClientDataStore: Database C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb requires logfiles 678-682 in order to recover successfully. Recovery could only locate logfiles up to 681.
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Event Type: Error
Event Source: ESENT
Event Category: (3)
Event ID: 454
Date: 2/11/2009
Time: VM1
User: N/A
Computer: IVAN-VM-01
Description: wuauclt (3460) Database recovery/restore failed with unexpected error -543.

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The client had not received any security updates since these events started. For an unknown reason, the SoftwareDistribution database used by the "Automatic Updates" service had become corrupted.

Restore Automatic Updates

  1. Open Services.msc and stop the "Automatic Updates" service.
  2. Go to C:\Windows and rename or delete C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\.
  3. Start the "Automatic Updates" service.

As soon as the service started, my client downloaded the patches from the WSUS server.

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