Sorry for starting a new thread, but I lost the original message here. Recently, there was a question on the list, from a user, who had nott got any high priority updates for his Windows, for a long time. I did deal with a similar problem, last year. There is a few things, that might prove helpful, before rushing to the huge step of reinstalling your system. I will go through some of them, and hope it will be of any assistance:
1. The trouble might be caused, in the case there has been a failure to an earlier update installation. You might want to go to your systray, ins-S, and look for the message, telling that there is updates available for your computer. If this message is to be found in your SysTray, press Enter on it, and follow onscreen instructions. 2. Going to the update site, there will be two choices. The first one, which is the most commonly used, is to have Windows automatically checking for high priority updates. If this fails, you can always give the second choice/method a try. This will give you a list of ALL available updates for your system, and you should be able to run a COMPLETE install of all this stuff. Usually, this will hold only a few language files for your Internet Explorer, except from all the high priority updates available. 3. I also have seen this happens due to the fact that a certain ActiveX has got deleted from your system. An ActiveX is a small script like thing, that installs on your PC, and gives other computers access to your system. Although this can be dangerous, in Microsoft's case, it simply lets the server collect the necessary information about your microsoft products installed, and which versions is currently running. Based on this collected information, the Microsoft server will determine which updates will be of interest to you. Normally, first installed, this ActiveX will stay permanent on your PC. Yet, I have seen registry cleaning software - like Advanced System Care - removing the ActiveX from your system, on each run. So, if this is the case, trying to run the update feature of Windows, the server asks for collection of information, and your PC 'does not know' what to do, and hence gives no information to the server; causing the server to tell, that there is no updates to be found. How can you work around this? When getting to the p update site of Microsoft, please check to see, if there is an information bar. In Internet Explorer, you can try to press ALT-N. If there is an information bar, you will be taken there, by this hotkey. Press Space, and R twice, and the ActiveX will be reinstalled, and your system should communicate fully with Microsoft's server, and get updated. Hope this will be of help to you, whoever it was asking the initial question. -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 1357 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
