Windows Update fails

I find Windows update on of the lesser stable parts of the Windows OS (XP pro). On a fresh installation my windows update failed with the following error (%windir%\Windowsupdate.log):

FATAL: Error: 0x80004002. wuauclt handler: failed to spawn COM server


Google to the rescue. The following fixed my problem (from a command prompt):

net stop wuauserv
regsvr32 wuapi.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng1.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng.dll
regsvr32 wucltui.dll
regsvr32 wups2.dll
regsvr32 wups.dll
regsvr32 wuweb.dll
net start wuauserv


Some extra info: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910359.