With the release of QGIS 0.9 imminent , I decided to install in on Windows XP and noticed that the geocoding plugin was failing… sure enough I had hardcoded linux temporary directories. So I reworked the python code to determine the temp dir in a more cross-platform way (using tempfile.gettempdir() ) and it works fine.

The update can be downloaded here.

Assuming you’ve installed qgis in the standard location, just unzip this into C:\Program Files\Quantum GIS\python\plugins (windows) or /usr/share/qgis/python/plugins (Linux) and you should be good to go. Note that you’ll have to create the “plugins” directory if it doesn’t exist.