My Windows 2000 Now Updating OK

[Guest BuddyToBud]

I don't know whether this will be of use to anyone but until today, my W2K

has not been updating correctly for a couple of weeks and other strange

things have been happening - in particular the event service failing to start.

 

I tried all the troubleshooting articles, trawled though all the security

policy settings and went through the registry with a fine toothcomb - all to

no avail. On a whim, I looked at the security settings on the .evt files in

%SYSTEMROOT%/System32/config and found that only my user had full control so

I added SYSTEM, SERVICE and Administrators to the folder security settings

and bingo - I could start the event service and view the event logs. I looked

at Sytem32 and the same was the case so in for a penny in for a pound did the

same to system32 - no error codes for Windows Update now but not all updates

would install - particularly .NET updates. What the hell I thought and

repeated the process on the next level up (i.e. %SYSTEMROOT% - WINNT in my

case) and all is now well in the land of BuddyToBud.

 

How long this will last is up for debate as I still don't know how this

happened in the first place and could well be due to an undetected virus or

trojan on my system or could just be a freak disk failure.

 

I would be interested to know if this is useful to anyone or have an

explanation as to how this occured so it can be avoided in the future.

 

Cheers, BuddyToBud