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Yesterday I battled with the unpleasant experience of having a corrupted Windows Update. As a result every time I logged into Windows XP I got a svchost.exe application error “0×745f2780″. Performing a system restore failed on each attempt and since no other application or hardward modifications had been made I assumed a problem had a occured with the Windows Update from the prior day. Here are some steps I performed to finally resolve the problem.

• Checked for errors in the Windows Update Log. The Windows Update Log can be found in the following paths:

• C:\Windows\Windows Update.log (Win XP & Win98/Me)
• C:\WINNT\Windows Update.log (Windows 2000)

Following these steps seemed to resolve the problem and hopefully this will be of benefit to others that run into the same issue.

*Another tip is not close the error windows that appear as that causes windows to freeze.