serverXMLHttp 0x80244019 crypt32 event 8

People I though I would save you sometime. If you are having problems using serverXML which will make windows update not work, the green bar will continue forever. And cause the crypt32 event id 8 to should up in the application log. And really cause every problem imaginable. Do no listen to those people who say, heheheheh disable the root server updates. Thats not the problem. The problem is with winHttp. The fix for me was to disable a proxy that I never set. To do that this simple command.

proxycfg -d

That should disable all proxies. After a quick restart everything started working. And finally things started working. If you can use XMLhttp but serverXMLhttp doesn’t work this will fix it. I hope this saves you all time. This all was happing on a Windows 2003 SP1 machine.