Some of you may encountered an error code 0x80000FFF when updated your Windows Vista using Windows Update or Microsoft Update. In addition, we often met this errors update when we run Windows Update from Control Panel.
To fix this, first please check your Windows registry, is there any one of the values below:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\COMPONENTS\PendingXmlIdentifier
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\COMPONENTS\NextQueueEntryIndex
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\COMPONENTS\AdvancedInstallersNeedResolving
If you encounter one of them, please do the procedure below to resolve the error code 0x80000FFF in Windows Vista.