Winterlight wrote:
At 09:59 PM 6/18/2005, you wrote:
I have seen this and it is ( or was ) related to Norton firewall in my
case.
may be just them and it will clear up on it's own.
you might try safe mode with networking ( for grins )
fp
I don't have Norton anything on my laptop, but it might be some other
third party... good idea on the safe mode .... if it will update in
safe mode.
I had my first nasty "windows update erroring out" scenario a few days
ago in my Thinkpad. I would just keep getting some weird error
everytime I would update and there was little information on my specific
error. While you just hang for a long long time vs my erroring out
after I let it hang for a long time, maybe the solution is the same.
For starters, you can look for the WindowsUpdate.log or Windows
Update.log (they changed the name after one of the service packs). It
should be in the Windows System Root directory (C:\Windows or C:\Winnt,
etc). See where you are hanging.
And, no, I did not have spyware (so far my systems are practically
immune with the hardened IE Zones, firefox usage, mozilla usage, running
as a normal user, and common sense) although I rechecked just in case
something finally did break through.
I turned off automatic updates as a service, and the background
intelligent transfer service (BITS 2.0). Then I went to the Windows
System Root directory and renamed the SoftwareDistribution to
SoftwareDistribution.old. Then retry the Windows Update.
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- Carroll Kong
