Davej said:I noticed that Microsoft Windows Update is now behaving oddly for XP.
You get to a page that says it will no longer update a pc running SP2
but even if you manually install SP3 it says the same thing.
No problems here. I have WinXP Pro SP3 x32 OEM and never had
a problem with Windows Update.
The Internet Explorer web page is coming up now, as it normally does.
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7585/winupdate.gif
And when I click Custom, there are maybe seven items which
might be relevant to you (i.e. new since last month, security
related).
There is some kind of ActiveX thing, which runs on that page.
Perhaps yours is so old, it is broken ? In the past, mine would
automatically update when that happens (tell you the old one
was no good, and start the install process for a new
ActiveX thing).
As far as I know, Microsoft provides free support for
certain topics, and I think Windows Update is one of them.
If Windows Update bricks your computer, you're supposed to
be able to get support from them.
Paul
Davej said:I have no problems updating my XP-SP3 laptop that has been kept
up to date -- but my game pc which I reformatted yesterday does
not seem to be able to update. I manually installed SP3 and IE8
but still I get redirected to a page that says SP2 pc's are no
longer supported by Windows Update.
Davej said:I have no problems updating my XP-SP3 laptop that has been kept up to
date -- but my game pc which I reformatted yesterday does not seem to
be able to update. I manually installed SP3 and IE8 but still I get
redirected to a page that says SP2 pc's are no longer supported by
Windows Update.
Paul said:There is a joke of a page here you could try.
The idiots expect you to install Silverlight, so you can get help!
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949104
If you look in Add/Remove, have ticked the "show updates" box,
see if SP3 is listed in there. The SP3 file I have on disk here
is KB936929. See if there is an entry for it.
Anyway, there is a WindowsUpdateAgent download, and you'd probably
want the x86 version.
I have to hurry off, because in the process of viewing the 949104
page in Internet Explorer, Explorer is hung. So I now need to reboot...
Paul
OK, there are three choices of WindowsUpdateAgent, and you want the
X86 one, the first one, for a 32 bit OS.
http://download.windowsupdate.com/WindowsUpdate/redist/standalone/7.4...
http://download.windowsupdate.com/WindowsUpdate/redist/standalone/7.4...
http://download.windowsupdate.com/windowsupdate/redist/standalone/7.4...
More info here.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa387285(VS.85).aspx
"Additionally, if Windows Update on the box is in a broken state,
so that automatic self-updates are failing, there's no way to use
the WUA API to recover from that. So, as a programmer, the only
way you can get out of these situations is either to prompt the
user to install KB949104 or to manually install the latest WUA.."
So that appears to have something to do with Windows Update,
but I don't know whether it would help or not. I don't know
if it actually helps with manual updates done via the web browser.
Paul