Naruto Uzumaki Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 Hey guys I recently had to do a recovery reinstall using my hp recovery disk to restore the computer to an out of factory state. Before I did this the pc updated just fine and sidebar worked fine too. now that I recovered sidebar wont work and windows update gives me error code 80073712. I have repeatedly tried to enable sidebar by using the run bar in the start menu and trying to enable it from control panel. Windows update, I have no clue what to do to get it updating my pc again. Can anyone help me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 Do a fresh format and install and try this (I found it on a forum): OldBones Posts: n/a Re: Error Code 80073712 I had the 80073712 error code and it is now fixed. I had to email MS for the fix. This is what they told me. Run chkdsk c: /f Reboot Copy Vista disk to to hard drive. Run Vista Setup from the hard drive and choose update. I was able to do the windows update after that. Good luck -- OldBones If that doesn't work I found another solution: In the Start menu, find "Command Prompt". Right-click and choose "Run asAdministrator". At the command prompt, type "regedit" and press enter. The Registry Editor window will open. Highlight the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\COMPONENTS key, in the left-hand pane. Go to the Edit menu and choose Find In the Find dialogue, for "find what" enter storedirty Under the Look at options, clear Keys and Data, and leave Values checked Press the Find Next button When the Find command locats a StoreDirty value, highlight it in the right-hand pane of Regedit. Right-click and select "Delete". If you get an Access Denied, go to the Edit menu, and choose Permissions. The Permissions dialogue for the Key will appear. Examine the permissions for the Registry key, to see what permissions might be missing. But before you get that far, double-check that you are reallly running teh REG command in the context of the Administrator user. Hope it helps .... -- Andrew McLaren amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 Do a fresh format and install and try this (I found it on a forum): Don't reinstall, I had the same problem. Go into your BIOS and properly set the date and time. It makes a world of a difference, believe me it worked here!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 Really MoC? Dats pretty sweet, but I wonder how date and time affects how update and sidebar works... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Really MoC? Dats pretty sweet, but I wonder how date and time affects how update and sidebar works... Yeah, it makes my mind go nutty but hey, that's Vista for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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