For the past 10 months I've been unable to download updates from Windows Update Site. Even when their are updates to download. So I've been using Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer to get my updates. This is getting old I want to be able to download my updates again off of the Windows Update site. I've tried everything. I've disabled Automatic
Updates to see if it does anything. I've even kept Automatic Updates on still I get the same error. Please some help me. I have Windows XP Professional OEM just for reference, and yes it's nice and legal.

What error do you get?

when i had the problem it was because i didnt have a language installed in the internet properites. soon as i installed uk eng, it let me run updates.

I had this problem when I had the Cryptographic Service disabled. Check that.

Use http://techspot.com/tweaks/updates/ instead.

Thanks it was the language setting. Thanks a lot (IT WORKS HA HA).