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Can not update XP
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When I try to update XP it continually says: Checking for the latest updates for your computer... This goes on idefinitely. I have a fast active connection. Is there a diagnostic program i can run to see what's wrong? How can i fix this? Thanks. Using XP. |
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"goldtech" wrote in message ...
Hi, When I try to update XP it continually says: Checking for the latest updates for your computer... This goes on idefinitely. I have a fast active connection. Is there a diagnostic program i can run to see what's wrong? How can i fix this? Thanks. Using XP. http://support.microsoft.com/mats/windows_update/ Ben |
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goldtech wrote:
Hi, When I try to update XP it continually says: Checking for the latest updates for your computer... This goes on idefinitely. I have a fast active connection. Is there a diagnostic program i can run to see what's wrong? How can i fix this? Thanks. Using XP. Try installing KB2888505 first. If you can. It's not necessarily the installation of that update that fixes it. It's a side effect of using that update, that makes a difference to Windows Update. Windows Update appears to be working out the supersedes information for Internet Explorer. The code that does it, gets stuck in some kind of loop. Eventually, Windows Update screen will appear. When it does, you can install KB2888505 from there. It will be offered to you. On my machine, before the fix, it takes roughly 30 minutes before the Windows Update list of updates appear. Last month, it was taking 10 minutes. The time varies from month to month, as security fixes are issued for Internet Explorer, changing the supersedes list for IE. Once KB2888505 is done, successive attempts to use Windows Update should run faster. This is not a fix, and it could break again at any time. Until the root cause is fixed. It's been broken for a while. The thread "Are WinXP updates still coming from MS?" earlier in this group, discusses this bug. Paul |
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"Paul" wrote in message ... goldtech wrote: Hi, When I try to update XP it continually says: Checking for the latest updates for your computer... This goes on idefinitely. I have a fast active connection. Is there a diagnostic program i can run to see what's wrong? How can i fix this? Thanks. Using XP. Try installing KB2888505 first. If you can. It's not necessarily the installation of that update that fixes it. It's a side effect of using that update, that makes a difference to Windows Update. Windows Update appears to be working out the supersedes information for Internet Explorer. The code that does it, gets stuck in some kind of loop. Eventually, Windows Update screen will appear. When it does, you can install KB2888505 from there. It will be offered to you. On my machine, before the fix, it takes roughly 30 minutes before the Windows Update list of updates appear. Last month, it was taking 10 minutes. The time varies from month to month, as security fixes are issued for Internet Explorer, changing the supersedes list for IE. Once KB2888505 is done, successive attempts to use Windows Update should run faster. This is not a fix, and it could break again at any time. Until the root cause is fixed. It's been broken for a while. The thread "Are WinXP updates still coming from MS?" earlier in this group, discusses this bug. Paul This is the direct download link for the November Cumulative Security Update for IE8 (KB2888505): http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downl....aspx?id=41074 Install the above and reboot. |
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On Sunday, November 24, 2013 12:31:18 AM UTC-6, Smirnoff wrote:
"Paul" wrote in message ... goldtech wrote: Hi, When I try to update XP it continually says: Checking for the latest updates for your computer... This goes on idefinitely. I have a fast active connection. Is there a diagnostic program i can run to see what's wrong? How can i fix this? Thanks. Using XP. Try installing KB2888505 first. If you can. It's not necessarily the installation of that update that fixes it. It's a side effect of using that update, that makes a difference to Windows Update. Windows Update appears to be working out the supersedes information for Internet Explorer. The code that does it, gets stuck in some kind of loop. Eventually, Windows Update screen will appear. When it does, you can install KB2888505 from there. It will be offered to you. On my machine, before the fix, it takes roughly 30 minutes before the Windows Update list of updates appear. Last month, it was taking 10 minutes. The time varies from month to month, as security fixes are issued for Internet Explorer, changing the supersedes list for IE. Once KB2888505 is done, successive attempts to use Windows Update should run faster. This is not a fix, and it could break again at any time. Until the root cause is fixed. It's been broken for a while. The thread "Are WinXP updates still coming from MS?" earlier in this group, discusses this bug. Paul This is the direct download link for the November Cumulative Security Update for IE8 (KB2888505): http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downl....aspx?id=41074 Install the above and reboot. That link brought up a question. It has been quite a while, but sometimes I had to use I.E. to install or download some things. Is that still true ? If it isn't, I can forgo I.E. patches and just not use it at all. Thanks, Andy |
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Andy wrote:
On Sunday, November 24, 2013 12:31:18 AM UTC-6, Smirnoff wrote: "Paul" wrote in message ... goldtech wrote: Hi, When I try to update XP it continually says: Checking for the latest updates for your computer... This goes on idefinitely. I have a fast active connection. Is there a diagnostic program i can run to see what's wrong? How can i fix this? Thanks. Using XP. Try installing KB2888505 first. If you can. It's not necessarily the installation of that update that fixes it. It's a side effect of using that update, that makes a difference to Windows Update. Windows Update appears to be working out the supersedes information for Internet Explorer. The code that does it, gets stuck in some kind of loop. Eventually, Windows Update screen will appear. When it does, you can install KB2888505 from there. It will be offered to you. On my machine, before the fix, it takes roughly 30 minutes before the Windows Update list of updates appear. Last month, it was taking 10 minutes. The time varies from month to month, as security fixes are issued for Internet Explorer, changing the supersedes list for IE. Once KB2888505 is done, successive attempts to use Windows Update should run faster. This is not a fix, and it could break again at any time. Until the root cause is fixed. It's been broken for a while. The thread "Are WinXP updates still coming from MS?" earlier in this group, discusses this bug. Paul This is the direct download link for the November Cumulative Security Update for IE8 (KB2888505): http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downl....aspx?id=41074 Install the above and reboot. That link brought up a question. It has been quite a while, but sometimes I had to use I.E. to install or download some things. Is that still true ? If it isn't, I can forgo I.E. patches and just not use it at all. Thanks, Andy IE is used for more than browsing. Some other things on your computer, use the HTML engine to present dialogs and windows. The IE stuff serves dual purposes. So no matter what version you use, keep it patched. Because you never know when it is being used, or when it is about to be exploited. (Attempting to open an image file, opens it in IE instead.) Paul |
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On 11/23/2013 02:53 PM, goldtech wrote:
Hi, When I try to update XP it continually says: Checking for the latest updates for your computer... This goes on idefinitely. I have a fast active connection. Is there a diagnostic program i can run to see what's wrong? How can i fix this? Thanks. Using XP. Though it will no longer work with IE6, I assume you have IE7 or IE8 by now...the problem seems to be on Microsoft's end. I've had a lot of machines on my workbench during the last few weeks and all the Win7 machines have been updating smoothly, but any XP machines I've had exhibited the same problem you've observed. In some cases, I tried again the following day and the update process worked. |
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