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Error 12175: ERROR_INTERNET_DECODING_FAILED

Windows Error Code Lookup: Decode Windows error codes: Win32, HRESULT (0x80070005), NTSTATUS, Windows Update, msiexec and blue-screen stop codes, with what to check next.

Paste the number from an error dialog, event log, script or setup log: 0x80070005, 80070005, -2147024891, 1603, 0xC0000005, a stop code like 0x7E, a name like E_ACCESSDENIED, or a few words. You get every way Windows could mean that number (an HRESULT often wraps a Win32 error, so 0x80070005 is "Access is denied" too), its parts decoded, and what to check for the common ones. Names and messages come from the Windows SDK headers and Windows' own message tables; see Microsoft's System Error Codes and [MS-ERREF] for the full references.

Try: 0x80070005, 1603, 0xC0000005, 0x800F081F, 0x8024402C, 0x7E, access denied

0x00002F8F = 12,175

Win32 error 12175 (0x2F8F)

ERROR_INTERNET_DECODING_FAILED
WinINet

Content decoding has failed

ERROR_WINHTTP_SECURE_FAILURE
WinHTTP

A security error occurred

Means different things in WinINet (content decoding failed) and WinHTTP (TLS failure). For Windows Update and services it's WinHTTP: check the clock, root certificates, TLS settings and any proxy that inspects HTTPS.

As an HRESULT (HRESULT_FROM_WIN32): 0x80072F8FWININET_E_DECODING_FAILED: Content decoding has failed