Thanks to a gentleman by the name of Igor Franchuk, he has found the
fix to this problem, and it so easy, it makes me mad.
Here is what we sent to me:
" I've encountered the same problem as you did today. When searching
the
Internet for the same error in hope for a ready solution in
some discussion forum I surfed over quite a few responses and none
of them were solutions.
After giving up I came up with a solution of our problem. It seems
like there was actually a mistake in the previous versions of
windows update.
After disassembling wuweb.dll that is responsible for webControl
update ActiveX object that is actually handling web based updates
I discovered the place where reboot required message is generated.
After looking in around the code I found that the condition
the message is generated is the presence or absence of
If the key exists - the message is generated by that brand new v5
update and it fails to work further causing [Error number:
0x8DDD0007].
I assume this key was set up in my registry long ago by the when the
old automatic
update (taskbar version) was uploading a new software and failing to
install it.
The solution then is simple remove the key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto
Update\RebootRequired