JSI Tip 6573. Your Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 Application event log contains Event ID 8 with Source crypt32?

Your Application event log contains one or both of the following:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: crypt32
Event Category: None
Event ID: 8
Date: xx/xx/xx
Time: hh:mm:ss
User:
Computer:
Description: Failed auto update retrieval of third-party root list sequence number from: with error: This operation returned because the timeout period expired.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: crypt32
Event Category: None
Event ID: 8
Date: xx/xx/xx
Time: hh:mm:ss
User:
Computer:
Description: Failed auto update retrieval of third-party root list sequence number from: with error: The specified server cannot perform the requested operation.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

If the Update Root Certificates component is installed, and the computer cannot connect to the Windows Update site, you will receive these errors.

NOTE: The Update Root Certificates component automatically updates trusted root-certificate authorities from the Windows Update site at regular intervals.

Your computer must have access to the Internet or you must turn off the Update Root Certificates component:

1. Control Panel / Add/Remove Programs / Add/Remove Windows Components.

2. Clear the Update Root Certificates box and follow the on-screen instruction in the Windows Components Wizard.

NOTE: If you have a temporary connectivity problem, resolve it.