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Jesper Dybdal
Until a few days ago, I was using Windows 2000 Pro (English).
A long time ago, I had made a registry change so that the
"ProgramFilesDir" was C:\P instead of C:\Program Files (I don't like
directory names containing space characters). That worked fine in
Win2K.
I have now upgraded to XP Pro. During the update, XP has changed that
registry setting back to C:\Program Files.
Everything works fine, except Windows Update - and Microsoft Update,
which I changed to in the hope that it would help.
But Windows/Microsoft Update now does not work at all, regardless of
which of the directories I set as the ProgramFilesDir value.
I am convinced that the problem has something to do with this (earlier)
registry setting. At one time, there was an Event log message
suggesting that - unfortunately, and somewhat surprisingly, I cannot now
find that message.
I have searched the registry for entries that might be relevant and are
still pointing at C:\P, and changed them to point to C:\Program Files
instead. I have copied everything that seemed possibly relevant from
C:\P to C:\Program Files.
Nothing helps - Microsoft Update is able to determine what should be
updated, but it cannot do it. It cannot even register the attempt in
its list of performed and failed updates.
I had no problems doing a "manual" installation of SP3, but that did not
help with the update problem.
I don't really like running Windows without automatic updates. But I
don't want to have to reinstall Windows and everything else again,
either.
So I would really appreciate any good ideas on how I can get Microsoft
Update to work.
A long time ago, I had made a registry change so that the
"ProgramFilesDir" was C:\P instead of C:\Program Files (I don't like
directory names containing space characters). That worked fine in
Win2K.
I have now upgraded to XP Pro. During the update, XP has changed that
registry setting back to C:\Program Files.
Everything works fine, except Windows Update - and Microsoft Update,
which I changed to in the hope that it would help.
But Windows/Microsoft Update now does not work at all, regardless of
which of the directories I set as the ProgramFilesDir value.
I am convinced that the problem has something to do with this (earlier)
registry setting. At one time, there was an Event log message
suggesting that - unfortunately, and somewhat surprisingly, I cannot now
find that message.
I have searched the registry for entries that might be relevant and are
still pointing at C:\P, and changed them to point to C:\Program Files
instead. I have copied everything that seemed possibly relevant from
C:\P to C:\Program Files.
Nothing helps - Microsoft Update is able to determine what should be
updated, but it cannot do it. It cannot even register the attempt in
its list of performed and failed updates.
I had no problems doing a "manual" installation of SP3, but that did not
help with the update problem.
I don't really like running Windows without automatic updates. But I
don't want to have to reinstall Windows and everything else again,
either.
So I would really appreciate any good ideas on how I can get Microsoft
Update to work.