wuauboot error message

From time to time for apparently no reason I get a pop-up
window saying that "Wuauboot" has caused an error in
unknown and will not shut down. What is this and how
do I stop it from happening?

Courtesy of MikeM.
Joan

wuauboot.exe together with wuaupd98.dll, auhook.dll, wuaures.dll and
wuauclt.exe as well as the control panel applet wuaucpl.cpl form Win Me's
Automatic Update feature.

The purpose of wuauboot.exe is to check for possible updates for your
system
after it has successfully booted up and only if it is able to find an
opened
connection to the Internet. If it does not find a connection to the
Internet,
it terminates. wuauclt.exe does a similar job but whilst the system is
running and is triggered by an internal timer.

Not knowing what is causing your precise problem a first suggestion would
be
to try resetting Automatic Updating. Do this by opening the Automatic
Updates
applet in the Control Panel, select "Turn off automatic updating", and OK
out.
Now go to your Program Files\Windows Update folder and delete the file
AUState.cfg. Reboot and then go back to the Control Panel and reopen the
Automatic Updates applet and configure AU to meet your requirements.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP


MBH wrote:
From time to time for apparently no reason I get a pop-up
window saying that "Wuauboot" has caused an error in
unknown and will not shut down. What is this and how
do I stop it from happening?