OK, I found the MS Knowledge Base article on how to deal with your problem. Not exactly a walk in the park:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923100 On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:04 PM, John Emmerling <[email protected]>wrote: > a.) A quick visit to Google tells me you have a difficult problem if you > are getting this error message 0X643. A quick overview suggests you will > need some technical savvy to get your way through it. If practical, you > might want to try reinstalling Windows at this point. The way I avoid this > type of problem is to just allow Windows Update to perform whatever update > it wants to, whenever it wants to. Maybe Geeks on Call (or someone else on > this list) can help. On the other hand, if you are not experiencing other > symptoms than this Windows Update error, then you could just ignore it for > the time being. > b.) I don't know how to tell whether any given program requires .NET. I > determined (again via Google) that Office 2007 requires .NET v1.1. It is > mostly a programmer's concern. For a long time, the programming tool of > choice for Windows was Visual Basic. I suspect a lot of software being sold > is still written in that, which will run just fine. The .NET equivalent of > this is VB.NET, plus a brand new language known as C# was introduced at > the same time, which grew rapidly in popularity. But if you're not a > programmer, you could care less. Unfortunately, both "traditional" Visual > Basic and "new fangled" VB.NET and C# compilers create files with either > the extension ".exe" or ".dll". I don't know how to tell from looking at > these how the programs were written. > > A lot of software running on Windows is cross-platform, in which case it > may have been written in C++ and compiled on Windows using Visual C++. > There is also some stuff written in Java (I am a Java programmer). The Java > programs are easiest to identify, but tend to be used by people having > specialized interests. > > Hope this helps somewhat! > > --John Emmerling ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
