Adding this information. This is happening exactly every 5 minutes. I have been monitoring this since I posted the origingal message. This started happening yesterday, never seen it before and sure would like to know what it is.
Now it does not show an error, it is under event viewer then applications, and in the column it says information and to the right it says ESENT.
wuaueng.dll is related to the Windows Update/Automatic Update engine, and may be found in various instances on your system (see image below, which represents the instances on a WinXP SP2 system). Depending on your configuration, there may be several versions with assorted dates. Why it's causing the error messages you're getting isn't clear, but you may want to consider doing a System Restore to a point prior to when this started happening, and see if that fixes things up.
First of all, it is worth mentioning that this poster, as he emphasizes himself, is not seeing any error messages at all. The messages he sees are informational. They are also entirely normal for the operation of the new version of Windows Update (v 5). Finally, the entries come in sets of four (I think), with some of them being indeed 5 minutes apart, but the whole set repeats (or should repeat) on the order of roughly six hours or so (the period is not exactly regular, though, and depends on a number of parameters). In any case, there is nothing at all to worry about, least of all is there any reason to do a system restore or to resort to even more drastic measures.
Dietmar, that is exactly what happens and yes I am running the newer version of the windows update. I am so glad that there is no problem and that it is normal. And yes it is NOT errors, just information.
Thanks and also thanks for everyone who helped out to.
Dietmar, you have a second career waiting as a United Nations translator
I doubt that, but I may have had an unfair advantage over you, in that I have seen the second post of this gentleman, in which he clearly refers to the event viewer.
Perhaps it would have been easier to make some sense of the original post(s) if you had mentioned that what you were seeing occurs in
Event Viewer, rather than in the course of more mainstream use - "in the Application" is a bit vague, particularly given some of the pidgin English in use here (Dietmar, you have a second career waiting as a United Nations translator
). I was also a bit thrown by the fact that you identified your OS as "winxp sp1 home edition," since the only time I've seen any instances of the v5 version of WU in use have been on systems running the beta or final versions of SP2.
Sounds like you are being a little hard on me, Mr. Flooby, you know what I mean? What, just do you mean by the "Pidgin English" phrase? This forum is suppose to help people out, not make fun of them. Mr. Dietmar does not have to be a United Nations Translator, he was helping me out, and guess what? He knew exactly what I was talking about.
And yes I am running windows xp sp1 home edition and I am waiting for the sp2 to come out like everyone else. I have been using this forum ever since I owned my first Dell in 2000. I have never been made fun of, only other people helping me out, and to all of them I thank you very much. I am not an expert as you can tell, but I do try, and when I see something that is unusual, or something that is not working, then I will post it and see if I can get some help. So if you ever see my post again Mr. Flooby, dont worry about replying to mine, some other kind lady or gentleman will help me out, I am sure. That is what this forum is all about. Kind people helping each other out.
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Adding this information. This is happening exactly every 5 minutes. I have been monitoring this since I posted the origingal message. This started happening yesterday, never seen it before and sure would like to know what it is.
Now it does not show an error, it is under event viewer then applications, and in the column it says information and to the right it says ESENT.
Please help
Annie70
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August 11th, 2004 22:00
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5BLN%5D;278316
I have never heard of ESENT however a Google Search turned this up.
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August 11th, 2004 22:00
wuaueng.dll is related to the Windows Update/Automatic Update engine, and may be found in various instances on your system (see image below, which represents the instances on a WinXP SP2 system). Depending on your configuration, there may be several versions with assorted dates. Why it's causing the error messages you're getting isn't clear, but you may want to consider doing a System Restore to a point prior to when this started happening, and see if that fixes things up.
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August 12th, 2004 01:00
Wonder what all the excitement is all about...
First of all, it is worth mentioning that this poster, as he emphasizes himself, is not seeing any error messages at all. The messages he sees are informational. They are also entirely normal for the operation of the new version of Windows Update (v 5). Finally, the entries come in sets of four (I think), with some of them being indeed 5 minutes apart, but the whole set repeats (or should repeat) on the order of roughly six hours or so (the period is not exactly regular, though, and depends on a number of parameters). In any case, there is nothing at all to worry about, least of all is there any reason to do a system restore or to resort to even more drastic measures.
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August 12th, 2004 02:00
Dietmar, that is exactly what happens and yes I am running the newer version of the windows update. I am so glad that there is no problem and that it is normal. And yes it is NOT errors, just information.
Thanks and also thanks for everyone who helped out to.
Joe
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August 12th, 2004 10:00
Dietmar, you have a second career waiting as a United Nations translator
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August 12th, 2004 23:00
To Flooby
Sounds like you are being a little hard on me, Mr. Flooby, you know what I mean? What, just do you mean by the "Pidgin English" phrase? This forum is suppose to help people out, not make fun of them. Mr. Dietmar does not have to be a United Nations Translator, he was helping me out, and guess what? He knew exactly what I was talking about.
And yes I am running windows xp sp1 home edition and I am waiting for the sp2 to come out like everyone else. I have been using this forum ever since I owned my first Dell in 2000. I have never been made fun of, only other people helping me out, and to all of them I thank you very much. I am not an expert as you can tell, but I do try, and when I see something that is unusual, or something that is not working, then I will post it and see if I can get some help. So if you ever see my post again Mr. Flooby, dont worry about replying to mine, some other kind lady or gentleman will help me out, I am sure. That is what this forum is all about. Kind people helping each other out.