Did windowsupdate for Windows XP close down? Error number 0x80248015

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When I visit windows update (http://update.microsoft.com/) the page does not load. It displays

[Error number: 0x80248015]

and the message:

The website has encountered a problem and cannot display the page you are trying to view.

Is anyone else getting this error on Windows XP? I looked around the Microsoft Community pages for a fix but did not want to try any of the weird things they suggested.

I am guessing that the site no longer works and that Microsoft has shut down this service for Windows XP. Support for Windows XP ended on April 14 of this year. Previously I did not have this problem (within the last few weeks) and I was able to load the page to see all the latest patches where installed and so forth ...

Does a solution to this problem exist?

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asked on Super User Nov 19, 2014 by sigma4500

3 Answers

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One user has found a workaround by downgrading muweb.dll to -> 7.6.7600.256.
See this post at MSFN.

Basically, download the .cab file below and extract the .dll and copy to System32 directory.

X86 http://download.windowsupdate.com/v9/1/microsoftupdate/b/selfupdate/WSUS3/x86/Other/muweb.cab

X64 http://download.windowsupdate.com/v9/1/microsoftupdate/b/selfupdate/WSUS3/x64/Other/muweb.cab

I tried out and it seems to work correctly. I was able to immediately connect again to Windows Update site without error.

answered on Super User Nov 26, 2014 by Sanjay Sheth
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I manage about a hundred XP boxes, and when I see this I install the latest service packs, SP3 for 32 bit and SP2 for 64 bit. Then I hit the update again and it finds the update site and continues with the few subsequent updates. Dunno where you will find the service packs, I have them on my file server.

answered on Super User Nov 20, 2014 by Timbo
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It must be a MS issue - whether accidental or contrived remains to be seen.

I have this problem on 32-bit XP machines of three different architectures (Intel P4, AMD X64, Intel Atom) connected on two different ISPs running through different routers and firewalls and with different/no anti-virus software. All of those machines were fully updated as of last Patch Tuesday (11/11/2014). Two of them had been powered off since that update and showed the 0x80248015 error when attempting to connect to Update servers immediately after power-up.

As a test I installed a cloned back-up drive from 11/2/2013 into the P4 system, and attempted to connect to the Update servers immediately after power-up. Exact same 0x80248015 error.

The MS/Win Update service is the only things all of these systems have in common.

answered on Super User Nov 20, 2014 by guest

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