x86 or x64 install? A loader should not be affected by this update.. don't tell me that u use Chew and RemoveWAT at the same time.. Try System Restore if sfc /scannow does not work.
@secr9tos: thanx for replying x86 = 32bit maybe not but its only after this update failed, things started to go south. i was able to install 10 other updates before this one and two more after this one. oh yeah, although the update kb974431 failed, i think that wasnt the cause of the checking of new updates to fail i read in some thread on this forum: 1) stop windows update service via services.msc 2) delete the softwaredistribution folder (i renamed it to -old) 3) start windows update again via services.msc 4) reboot the machine and try to manually install the update again. i did all of the above but the update still failed to install but by then i had lost the history (not the updates themselves) of update installations. and then i tried checking for new updates and got the c0000022 error so i again did all of the above steps except this time i deleted the newly created softwaredistribution folder and renamed the -old one back to the original name but that didnt help to restore the updates installation history nor get rid of the c0000022 error while checking for newer updates and the manual installation continued to fail at reboot like before. good question....i remember installing removewat and rebooting to see if it fixed the prob (which it didnt) then i tried chew. but i dont remember if i restored wat before using chew. so i cant recall that i wud love to but cant, surprisingly system restore shows that there r no restore points when i specifically remember turn on system protection for all my partitions (windows drive protection was already on) and manually creating restore points for each of these partitions. infact, i recall creating restore points right before i tried removewat (incase anything wud go wrong) and i also remember that i never turned off system protection at all right now, i just need an original sppcomapi.dll and/or a way to turn on Software Protection service. i think the service 'sppsvc' and the dll 'sppcomapi.dll' r dependent on each other and r one and the same thing so if u or anyone here can plz help me with this specific prob, that wud be gr8 thanx
ive already undone removewat and chew i confirmed by running them again and they both give me an option to install them so i now they have been uninstalled. sfc /scannow was ran after uninstalling both and it worked for many of the modded files it found, except for 'sppcomapi.dll' so i kept running it specifically for this dll from cmd (as admin), like so: sfc /scanfile=c:\windows\System32\sppcomapi.dll but it keeps failing, even from safe mode. i need to original unmodded version of this dll so can anyone plz provide me that or a link to download it? @rolmos: what do u mean by "Use an untouched DVD this time" ? do i need to have the dvd inserted in the dvd drive before i run sfc /scannow? i have manually searched for the file 'sppcomapi.dll' in the dvd but cudnt find it.
takeown /f %windir%\System32\sppcomapi.dll icacls %windir%\System32\sppcomapi.dll /reset sfc /scanfile=c:\windows\System32\sppcomapi.dll should fix it
thanx for reply hazar the takeown and icalcs commands did the trick coz when i ran the sfc /scanfile command, it said there were no integrity probs. but i still cant start the Software Protection service (sppsvc) via services.msc it says 'Access denied'. i even tried to start the service from cmd (as admin), as follows: takeown /f %windir%\System32\sppcomapi.dll net start sppsvc but i got the following msgs: The Software Protection service is starting. The Software Protection service could not be started. A system error has occurred. System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied. once i get Software Protection running again, im sure i wont have probs installing the update kb974431 and also successfully checking for new win updates. we r almost there guys! thanx for ur quick responses and all ur help so far EDIT: i tried to take ownership of sppsvc.exe too as i did for sppcomapi.dll like so: takeown /f %windir%\System32\sppsvc.exe icacls %windir%\System32\sppsvc.exe /reset sfc /scanfile=c:\windows\System32\sppsvc.exe but still it gives me access denied when i try to start the service. plz help.
This might help someone: I also got this problem. Which stopped med from installing the certificate with daz. In my case the problem was simply that permissions for sppsvc.exe had been modified to deny access from NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE. This service is by default run with NETWORK SERVICE and it can't be run with for example Local System account. So I restored permissions for the file and ran the service with NETWORK SERVICE.
@John Peterson WoW you are awesome, giving life to a dead thread almost 1 year later... impressive LOL
what process did you use to restore teh permissions. i need to do the same thing on mine, but havent been able to, i just fiddled arround by right clicking, going to properties and clicking a few things in the security tab. no success, can you give me the correct steps to change the permission?