80073712

Suggestions has been made for performing the delete task of pending.xml
another one suggests reinstalling the windows update agent..
Actually i dont believe these "workarounds" has anything todo with the
actual error
i tried, and tried and tried.. but no change what so ever..
i started out having 15 hotfixes that couldnt install.. at some point in
time 11 suceeded.. (no change anywhere beside alot of booting, BSOD restarts
etc.)

I have seen 1, i repeat 1 comment from a MSFT engineer. The advice was call
support!?!?!? I belive from the threads all over the net that this has been
tried and the suggestion always is, no solution, re-install vista. Sigh.

I have been there more than once now.. Initially installed 64bit version on
a SLI680I Mobo with a quad core q6600 CPU, 4Gb Corsair RAM (now removed 2
because of the BSOD problem etc. All good quality parts and ontop aproved by
MSFT for running Vista.
I ask myself repeatedly: "Why do i spend days mocking around with this BETA
software? its not even beta i actually paid for the OS" WinXp would have been
running in 2 hours, Redhat in 2 hours, hell i believe i could even get Debian
to run in 3.. Vista 64bit took 4 days with endless BSOD´s.. gace up and
bought a 32bit instead.. now im running.. only having BSOD evry 1 hour !!
wow.. nevertheless IE crashes suggestion run update.. which leads me to the
question.
WHAT IS MICROSOFT GOING TO DO IN ORDER TO PROVIDE A FIX THE 80073712
ERROR??????

Hello pf,

Maybe the MSFT engineer forgot to mention this
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/931712

:-) actually i forgot. I trird it and i seem to belong to the group of ppl
that does not have this key.

I completely agree with PF.

I have been stuck with this error for 2 weeks, and I am thinking about going
back to XP. I have had NOTHING but problems from day 1.

Engel,
Thanx, I have seen and tried that solution. All I see when I try to put
that into practice is an error, which goes something along the lines of you
don't have anything called storedirty.

What kind of f*ing file or command line is that solution supposed to be
anyway?
MICROSOFT - would you please fix this???

see my new posting above with a fix for this problem

I was getting the 80073712 error for a couple of weeks. I tried the
commands people suggest. I kept looking for other solutions.

The other day when I turned my laptop on, I got something new, and don't
know what to do.

The windows vista home basic comes up and has my icon (but no icon for the
administrator) Now I didn't usually have this page coming up, since I'm the
only authorized user. It has a little icon in the left corner that when
clicked brings up some accessibility options with a voice that reads the
options to me. None of the options is something I need.


I click on my account icon, it says "welcome". and then it says The User
Profile Service service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded.

And there is an "ok" button. I click the "ok" button and it brings me back
to the screen with my icon. I cannot get into VISTA at all

HELP ME PLEASE.

If you can tell me how to get rid of Vista all together and put my Windows
XP in, please tell me details how to do it. I'm not very sophisticated when
it comes to computers, but I can't live without my laptop!!!!

A very specific one I suspect. Just because you get a code doesn't
mean that the fix that someone else who got the same code will work
for you. Details matter. What are your symptoms beside the code?
E.g. look in the logs for the context of the code.

BTW you may get more informed help in a Vista specific newsgroup.
Cross-posting to one for reference.

Hi,

Logon in safe mode as administrator,

Thanks to everyone.
I am somewhat unsophisticated at this new group stuff, so I apologize to
those who think I posted in the wrong place.

I am hoping I solved my problem. I have taken my laptop to an expert and
will fork over money to have XP installed.