ErnieK
06-23-2002, 07:03 PM
I have cut and pasted the following from Fred Langas News Letter. I thought it might be very usefull to forum users
So all credit for this information goes to him with thanks
[qoute]Dear Fred, Microsoft has recently updated their Windows Update
Site and in the process has made it unavailable to thousands
of XP users. This bug seems to effect those XP users who have
a broadband connection or users who are behind a corporate
network....
Microsoft again has kept this problem quiet while trying to
develop a fix for a problem they have created. However, they
do have a work around with further options if needed (see
below, forwarded from Microsoft). I have always enjoyed your
newsletter and thought your readers might find this
information useful since it is unavailable at Microsoft's
support site. Yours truly, Chuck Joseph
I'll link you to the official Microsoft fix in a moment, but you may not
need it: If you can access the Update site normally, you do NOT need to
do anything further.
On the other hand, if your system is set up to check for automatic
updates, you may have missed updates and not known it; you may have the
site-access problem and not realize it.
So: I suggest that you take a moment and click to the Update site. It's
usually available via a link on the Start menu, or via the Link menu of
Internet Explorer. If you can access the site normally, you're OK.
If not, the following fix will get you going again. The fix is long---
involving 18 separate steps!--- so rather than load it all into the
newsletter, I've posted it on the web:
Windows Update Access Fix:
Standard Edition Subscribers (public site):
Windows Update Access Fix:
http://www.freetune.com/extras/broken_updates.htm [/quote]
[This message has been edited by ErnieK (edited 06-23-2002).]
So all credit for this information goes to him with thanks
[qoute]Dear Fred, Microsoft has recently updated their Windows Update
Site and in the process has made it unavailable to thousands
of XP users. This bug seems to effect those XP users who have
a broadband connection or users who are behind a corporate
network....
Microsoft again has kept this problem quiet while trying to
develop a fix for a problem they have created. However, they
do have a work around with further options if needed (see
below, forwarded from Microsoft). I have always enjoyed your
newsletter and thought your readers might find this
information useful since it is unavailable at Microsoft's
support site. Yours truly, Chuck Joseph
I'll link you to the official Microsoft fix in a moment, but you may not
need it: If you can access the Update site normally, you do NOT need to
do anything further.
On the other hand, if your system is set up to check for automatic
updates, you may have missed updates and not known it; you may have the
site-access problem and not realize it.
So: I suggest that you take a moment and click to the Update site. It's
usually available via a link on the Start menu, or via the Link menu of
Internet Explorer. If you can access the site normally, you're OK.
If not, the following fix will get you going again. The fix is long---
involving 18 separate steps!--- so rather than load it all into the
newsletter, I've posted it on the web:
Windows Update Access Fix:
Standard Edition Subscribers (public site):
Windows Update Access Fix:
http://www.freetune.com/extras/broken_updates.htm [/quote]
[This message has been edited by ErnieK (edited 06-23-2002).]