Office update error 57a

This requires patience in your part. The Registry Editor should open. You may have seen this Registry Editor Disclaimer several times now but I shall reiterate it:. I will not guarantee that problems resulting from the incorrect use of Registry Editor can be solved. Use Registry Editor at your own risk. Once in Registry Editor look for the registry key in question.

Do you still have that Error from Event Viewer? We need to look for it now. Make sure you use the first part of that very long key.

Click FIND. Registry Editor should find that key for you. We need to gain access to those keys, else the Update will continually fail. Choose Properties. Another window should appear. Make sure that you select Full Control after adding Administrators. Adding the Administrators as Full Control only gave you permissions for the key but not ownership. This is not enough.

We need to be the Owner of this subkey. Hit OK after highlighting Administrators from the list. Finally, hit OK. You should now have a full roster of the default permission of the Registry key. Never forget to apply the same steps for adding Permissions and Ownership of the SUBKEYS or else you will end with the same error since not all of the problematic keys have the necessary permissions to allow modification.

This entry was posted on October 13, by Aiscer. Thank You so much!! Your solution helped me a lot. After reading this i was on right track and finally i solved my problem. Thank you very much. In my case, I needed to repeat the procedure several times, since each time, a different registry key was shown in the event log, but after fixing some permissions, my Windows Update is back on track.

I check ALL them, but automatically it turns unchecked…. You only need to set Administrators as the Owner and with Full Control rights as seen under Step 3: d and e. If you now see the entries for Creator Owner, System, and Users there would be no need to set them also to Full Control, only the Administrators group is need.

You may now proceed by trying Windows Update again. Thank you very much! It really helped! I felt desperate after so many hours of fruitless attempts to do something with Office updates, I could not also uninstall or repair it. A long fight with Office Updates, won with this guide… Thanks. This solved my windows update problem with Office When finished, the CMD window will automatically close.

You can now reboot your computer and then head off to Windows Update and install the Office update. I tried the three different suggestions from the Windows tech person on their support site — manual installation, using Microsoft Fixit and disabling UAC — none worked. I have an error with the windows update, for wich i get error 57a.

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