today I installed Windows XP SP2 Home on a computer. I went to try to run Windows Update on it and was greeted with "The website has encountered a problem and cannot display the page you are trying to view — error number 0x8024400A"
I've encountered this kind of problem a lot of times. I remember when I worked at a computer repair shop 6 or so years ago I encountered it on a lot of computers running Windows XP. I never figured out how to fix it other than to do a reinstall of Windows. Googling for the error number never came up with any solutions either.
What is it that causes this problem and how do I fix it?
Edit:
Well, now I've installed windowsupdateagent30-x86
and that got me to where I can now browse a list of needed updates, but when I go to install updates I get the same generic error message, but with error number 0x80070715
Best Answer
Got this problem too on a VM I'm setting up for IE8 testing for websites. This was happening even after patching to IE8 and SP3 manually.
Googling around I found this blog post.
The guts of what is suggested is:
There are other suggestions listed at this MS link.
UPDATE: The following fixed the problem for me:
This will download the fixit app to attempt to resolve the problem (note that it needs .net framework 2.0 so you can save time by pre-installing this).
In my case there were three areas that it fixed: