Error 8024402f on Vista SOLVED

So there are a few Microsoft fixit options that ol'gates has put out there, wich in some instances has worked. But I was recently dealing with the far often to common "8024402f" that cannot be resolved by anything other than a system restore. many people have reported this but no one fix exists. Well here to add to the list of solutions is this.

From the machine that cannot update, Go to your network connections, Right click whichever connection you are using, go to properties, select "tcp/ip ipv4" right click and properties again. In this window that appears you have the option to manually set your ip and subnet mask, or also manually set your DNS. For those of you wondering, DNS stands for " domain naming service" It associates the name of a website to a unique IP address. This allows all user around the world to locate the named server solely by the URL and not by the 4 octet binary based address. Back to the solution at hand...

So now that we are on the screen to change the DNS, you will want to check this box to set manually, then enter in the first box for the primary " 8.8.8.8" and in the secondary DNS box type " 8.8.4.4" these are googles DNS server, and should allow you to update windows now. Go to properties of my computer, then on the left hand pane near the bottom, select windows updates. Click check now.

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