Comments on: How To Fix Windows Update Error 80072EFD In Vista SP1?

By: Tech

Tech — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:45:08 +0000

Worked fine,thanks

By: lee

lee — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:15:07 +0000

None of this worked for me, but gave me the idea to try from terrycyber (thanks!)

Brand new Dell 620 Inspiron, Win7Pro, started my updates at home, had no problem. Brought into the office and got the evil 80072EFD. Not my firewall, I’ve got 5 other Win7 clients running on this network with no problem. So I tried everything – 5+ hours on Google. I ended up UN-CHECKING the “Automatically Detect Settings” and it fixed the problem.

So…

Step 1:
IE (internet Explorer) > Tools > Internet Options

Step 2:
Click “Connections” Tab then click on “LAN settings” Button

Step 3:
Remove check box for ”Use automatic configuration script” (probably not checked for typical user)

Step 4:
Remove check box for ”Automatically detect setting” (usually checked by default)

Step 5:
Click ok

My Dell is now updating just fine.

Thanks to all who take the time to post answers – we are indebted to you all.

By: dwight

dwight — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 20:47:21 +0000

I worked on this for 2 days and finaly found this sight.great work thanks

By: lisa

lisa — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:12:29 +0000

this is UNBELIEVABLE. I have not had an update since 2008!!!!! And have had so many internet problems!! I had 78 updates to install. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

By: ntall

ntall — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:48:32 +0000

Thank You so much for this information I have been looking online all morning doing all the tips suggested by microsoft and stumbled onto your site you fixed my problem in less than 2 min. You are a lifesaver

By: John

John — Tue, 24 May 2011 09:18:28 +0000

Just to add to the praise for you solution. Having been pulling my hair out trying to fix my niece’s laptop even doing an upgrade installing but with no luck. This fixed the problem in seconds. Now have 92 updates to install. Will definitely add your site to my favourites.

Thanks!!!!

By: X.E.R.O.

X.E.R.O. — Mon, 23 May 2011 22:51:22 +0000

Exactly, I’ve noticed an odd correlation.

This has happened before and somehow it kinda got fixed on its own. For the record, unfortunately none of the tips mentioned here haven’t worked for me, for starters, theres no proxy servers but a direct access.

K heres the 3 things I’ve noticed going down simultaneously.

1) Unable to update : BTW I use Windows Vista SP1. Error Code : 80072EFD. When my internets working perfectly fine and since the updates worked earlier with my firewall on, no reason y it should suddenly start creating problems.

2) Can’t login to Yahoo Messenger.

3) Unable to load pages in Internet Explorer (Version 8). To add to it, Internet Explorer occupies almost 50% of my CPU. Other browsers including Chrome, Mozilla and Opera however working perfectly fine.
Heres the stack from Process Explorer

ntkrnlpa.exe!KeWaitForMultipleObjects+0xab7
ntkrnlpa.exe!ExfAcquirePushLockExclusive+0x3a5
ntkrnlpa.exe!PsGetCurrentThreadTeb+0×377
hal.dll!KfRaiseIrql+0xd1
hal.dll!KeRaiseIrqlToSynchLevel+0×70
hal.dll!HalEndSystemInterrupt+0×73
hal.dll!HalInitializeProcessor+0xcc1
msadm.dll!GetLspGuid+0x80a2
ws2_32.dll!closesocket+0x4a
WININET.dll!GopherGetLocatorTypeA+0x67a
WININET.dll!InternetSetStatusCallbackA+0x1e3
kernel32.dll!BaseThreadInitThunk+0×12
ntdll.dll!RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0×63
ntdll.dll!RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0×36

Even my Sidebar takes up bout 50% of CPU memory

And well the stack of all these apps taking up too much memory shows similar elements towards the end :

Making any sense to you ?