Hi pommie susiecue, welcome to the Windows Update Newsgroup.
The first thing you should do is familiarise yourself with the procedure on how to get
assistance.
How to ask a question:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
Then start a new thread explaining what your problem is the best way you can and then
perhaps someone may be able to assist you. If further details are required from you, then
no doubt someone will ask for further information.
K
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"pommie susiecue" <pommiesusiecue@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2858E005-8BBB-41BF-A484-22DA2066312A@microsoft.com...
| Hi there, fisrt time on this site hopefully you can help me.
| have very little knowledge of computers so little worried i might make
| further errors. can anyone sent details so that this dummy may be able to
| fix problem
| --
| susiecue from coffs harbour
|
|
| "Frustr8d_lady" wrote:
|
| > Hi Shenan Stanley
| > I am having the same problem with the error code coming up everytime i try
| > to download MSN messenger live, and after searching everywhere I could think
| > of on the net... ( a couple of hours) I have finally found some advice which
| > provides a plausable solution!... (you're advice
)
| >
| > I did everything that you said, step by step however the error message is
| > still showing??? However, I didnt understand the bit where you wrote about
| > the command line switch "wuforce"???
| >
| > Could you please offer some advice?
| >
| > VERY FRUSTRATED!
| >
| > "Shenan Stanley" wrote:
| >
| > > Hinkywil wrote:
| > > > I have been trying to do updates for months now, thinking it was
| > > > just a problem within Microsoft windows. I still can't install,
| > > > don't have a clue as to what that error code means. Does anyone
| > > > know or can you tell me how to find out what that error code
| > > > means??? I'd be extremely grateful for anyones help on this
| > > > matter...
| > >
| > > Shenan Stanley wrote:
| > > > See the response(s) to your almost identical posting in this
| > > > newsgroup...
| > >
| > > PaulE wrote:
| > > > Well gee thanks Shenan, that was about as helpful as a cut finger
| > > > in a glass of vinegar! I'm having the same problem as Hinkywil and
| > > > your smart response directing us to a link explaining how to ask
| > > > questions the smart way was, well, simply pathetic. Did it not
| > > > occur to you that Hinkywil and people of a similar frustration need
| > > > help and not some smart geek telling us how stupid we are. It's bad
| > > > enough Microsoft not making matters easier by introducing these
| > > > issues without people like you adding to the frustration!
| > > >
| > > > Does anyone have a suitable and acceptable answer to this annoying
| > > > issue with Microsoft update?
| > >
| > > Shenan Stanley wrote:
| > > > First off - that is always my signature - never changes. Has been
| > > > for two+ years. If you took offense to it - it was for lack of
| > > > research on your part and knowing that is *not* directed at anyone
| > > > in particular - but is left there as a general reference - always
| > > > in my signature.
| > > >
| > > > If you had actually took what I said and searched for Hinkywil's
| > > > other posting you would have not only seen that my signature was
| > > > the same in the other answer - but that there was a suggested
| > > > procedure to follow to help resolve their issue (assuming they were
| > > > usiing Windows XP - like you there has been no information of
| > > > substance given to resolve a problem that only the poster sees.) I
| > > > told the responder to see my response to their other (identical)
| > > > question as they must have mistakenly posted it twice and I saw no
| > > > need to answer it twice - they could just see the message they
| > > > posted earlier about the same issue and the associated answers. I
| > > > am sorry you did not take that advice and decided to take out your
| > > > frustrations on me.
| > > >
| > > > For *your* benefit - here is what I asked/told them:
| > > >
| > > > Operating system in question?
| > > > Updates in question?
| > > > What have you 'tried'?
| > > >
| > > > Get Dial-a-Fix:
| > > >
http://wiki.djlizard.net/Dial-a-fix
| > > >
| > > > Use its options to fix:
| > > > - Windows Installer
| > > > - Windows Update
| > > > - All the Registration Center options.
| > > >
| > > > Turn off the "Empty System32\Catroot 2"
| > > > Do NOT do "Flush SoftwareDistribution".
| > > >
| > > > Then click "GO" and wait until it is done... Reboot will be needed.
| > > >
| > > > - Download/Install Windows Update v3.
| > > >
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...fc-5f56-4a38-b838-de776fd4138c&DisplayLang=en
| > > > (You *will* need to install it using the command line switch
| > > > "/wuforce" right
| > > > after the reboot - immediately after logging in.)
| > > >
| > > > - Download/Install the 927891 patch.
| > > >
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7A81B0CD-A0B9-497E-8A89-404327772E5A
| > > >
| > > > - Reboot.
| > > >
| > > > - Visit
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ and scan for/install
| > > > updates.
| > > >
| > > > - Come back and let us know how things went!
| > >
| > > PaulE wrote:
| > > > In which case I sincerely apologise.
| > > >
| > > > My frustration clearly caused a narrow focus and I'd not understood
| > > > the first line of your response.
| > > >
| > > > I've experienced too many pointless and superior responses to
| > > > questions in the past, having clearly explained the particular
| > > > problem, and have grown tired of knowledgeable people putting down
| > > > the less knowlegeable.
| > > >
| > > > I'm grateful you don't simply ignore my purile response and
| > > > repeated your previous advice to Hinkywil which, I'm glad to say,
| > > > has solved my problem.
| > > >
| > > > Mia Culpa
| > >
| > > I am gload the solution worked for you. Hope your computer and yourself
| > > stay healthy - for the former, you can always come here and ask for help.
| > > ;-)
| > >
| > > --
| > > Shenan Stanley
| > > MS-MVP
| > > --
| > > How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
| > >
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
| > >
| > >
| > >