Jalaj P. Jha

I heard a few cries for help on the web looking for Windows Update Agent 5.8.02469.

“Can someone plz tell me where I can download windows update agent 5.8.02469?”

“How to get the Windows Update Agent 5.8.02469 which is needed to install windows Live?”

A search on Google should have pointed to a page from microsoft for the download but unfortunately the pages shown are from other illegal download sites. Querying further I reached a Microsoft page that indeed tells how to download the latest Windows Update Agent. The steps to be performed are :

1) Download http://update.microsoft.com/redist/wuredist.cab from microsoft site.

2) Open the cabinet file and you will find an xml manifest wuredist.xml. Open it using notepad or so. The lines wuld look similar to those below

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<WURedist>
  <StandaloneRedist Version="30">
    <architecture name="x86" clientVersion="7.0.6000.381"
downloadUrl="http://download.windowsupdate.com/WindowsUpdate/redist/standalone/
7.0.6000.381/WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe"/>
    <architecture name="x64" clientVersion="7.0.6000.381"
downloadUrl="http://download.windowsupdate.com/WindowsUpdate/redist/standalone/
7.0.6000.381/WindowsUpdateAgent30-x64.exe"/>
    <architecture name="ia64" clientVersion="7.0.6000.381"
downloadUrl="http://download.windowsupdate.com/WindowsUpdate/redist/standalone/
7.0.6000.381/WindowsUpdateAgent30-ia64.exe"/>
    <MUAuthCab RevisionId="6"
DownloadURL="http://download.windowsupdate.com/v7/windowsupdate/redist/standalone/
MUAuth.cab"/>
  </StandaloneRedist>
</WURedist>

3) Check the DownloadUrl attribute (as per your OS architechture x86, x64, ia64) for the download url from where you can get the download file. Say for 32 bit x86 platform download url would be
http://download.windowsupdate.com/…/7.0.6000.381/WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe

4) Download and it’s done. Install it as you would do with any other software. The version thus downloaded would be the latest one and would work fine for the requirement of 5.8.02469 or later

Going through this exercise for installing Windows Live Writer or other Windows Live service??
Don’t forget to check this article too Windows Live Writer, Error during Install which documents all errors (including this one) that I came across while installing Windows Live Writer.

Ref : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa387285(VS.85).aspx

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