{"id":1777,"date":"2014-11-16T16:01:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T12:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2014-11-17T10:16:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T06:16:14","slug":"reagentc-operation-failed-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/windows\/reagentc-operation-failed-3\/","title":{"rendered":"ReAgentC: Operation failed: 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I mentioned that whenever I run ReAgentC<\/code> I get the following error –\u00a0<\/p>\n

C:\\Windows\\System32>reagentc \/info\r\nREAGENTC.EXE: Operation failed: 3\r\n\r\nREAGENTC.EXE: An error has occurred.<\/pre>\n
I posted<\/a> to the Microsoft Community forums hoping to get a solution. The suggested\u00a0solutions didn’t seem to help but oddly ReAgentC is now working – not sure why.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One thing I learnt is that the error code 3 means a path is not found<\/a>. My system didn’t have any corruptions (both sfc \/scannow<\/code> and\u00a0dism\u00a0\/Online \/Cleanup-image \/Scanhealth<\/code> gave it a clean chit) and I did a System Restore too to a point back in time when I know ReAgentC<\/code> was working well but that didn’t help either.\u00a0Windows RE itself was working fine as I was able to boot into it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the end I shutdown the laptop and left it for a\u00a0couple of days as I had other things to do. And when looked at it today ReAgentC<\/code> was surprisingly working!<\/p>\n
I am\u00a0not sure\u00a0why it is now working. One theory is that a few updates were applied automatically as I was shutting down the laptop so maybe they fixed some corruption. Or maybe when I booted into Windows RE and booted back that fixed something? (I don’t remember whether I tried ReAgentC<\/code> after booting back from Windows RE. I think<\/em> I did but I am not sure).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Here’s a little PowerShell to find all the updates installed in the last 3 days. Thought I’d post it\u00a0because\u00a0I am pleased I came up with it and also maybe it will help someone else.\u00a0<\/p>\n
PS> Get-WindowsPackage -Online | ?{ $_.InstallTime -gt [datetime]::now.AddDays(-3) } | \r\n    %{ Get-WindowsPackage -PackageName $_.PackageName -online } | ft Description,ReleaseType,InstallTime\r\n\r\nDescription                                                         ReleaseType InstallTime\r\n-----------                                                         ----------- -----------\r\nFix for KB2976536                                                        Update 13\/11\/2014 21:38:07\r\nFix for KB2978126                                                SecurityUpdate 13\/11\/2014 21:38:07\r\nFix for KB2992611                                                SecurityUpdate 13\/11\/2014 21:38:07\r\nFix for KB2993958                                                SecurityUpdate 13\/11\/2014 21:38:07\r\nFix for KB3002885                                                SecurityUpdate 13\/11\/2014 21:38:08\r\nFix for KB3003057                                                SecurityUpdate 13\/11\/2014 21:38:08\r\nFix for KB3003667                                                        Update 13\/11\/2014 21:38:08\r\nFix for KB3003743                                                SecurityUpdate 13\/11\/2014 21:38:08\r\nFix for KB3004150                                                        Update 13\/11\/2014 21:38:08\r\nFix for KB3005607                                                SecurityUpdate 13\/11\/2014 21:38:08\r\nFix for KB3006178                                                        Update 13\/11\/2014 21:38:08\r\nFix for KB3006226                                                SecurityUpdate 13\/11\/2014 21:38:08\r\nFix for KB3008188                                                        Update 13\/11\/2014 21:38:08\r\nFix for KB3008627                                                        Update 13\/11\/2014 21:38:09\r\nFix for KB3010788                                                SecurityUpdate 13\/11\/2014 21:38:09<\/pre>\n
This will only work in Windows 8 and above<\/a>\u00a0(I haven’t tried but I think installing the Windows Management Framework 4.0<\/a> on Windows 7 SP1 and\/ or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 will get it working on those OSes too).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Update<\/strong>: And it stopped working again the next day! The laptop was on overnight. The next day I rebooted as it had some pending updates. After the reboot we are back to square one. Of course I removed those two updates and rebooted to see if that helps. It doesn’t.\u00a0<\/p>\n
PS> Get-WindowsPackage -Online | ?{ $_.InstallTime -gt [datetime]::now.AddDays(-3) } | \r\n    %{ Get-WindowsPackage -PackageName $_.PackageName -online } | ft Description,ReleaseType,InstallTime\r\n    \r\nDescription                                                         ReleaseType InstallTime\r\n-----------                                                         ----------- -----------\r\nFix for KB2995388                                                        Update 17\/11\/2014 05:34:19\r\nFix for KB2996799                                                        Hotfix 17\/11\/2014 05:34:19\r\n\r\nPS> Get-WindowsPackage -Online | ?{ $_.InstallTime -gt [datetime]::now.AddDays(-3) } | Remove-WindowsPackage -Online\r\nDo you want to restart the computer to complete this operation now?\r\n[Y] Yes  [N] No  [?] Help (default is \"Y\"):\r\n<\/pre>\n
\u00a0Fun! :)<\/p>\n
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The other day I mentioned that whenever I run ReAgentC I get the following error –\u00a0 C:\\Windows\\System32>reagentc \/info REAGENTC.EXE: Operation failed: 3 REAGENTC.EXE: An error has occurred. I posted to the Microsoft Community forums hoping to get a solution. The suggested\u00a0solutions didn’t seem to help but oddly ReAgentC is now working – not sure why.\u00a0 … Continue reading ReAgentC: Operation failed: 3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[85],"tags":[53,227,332,320],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}