Did your M$ Window$ updates crash?

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Dear Forum,

The M$ Window$ updates for October 2009 updated without any problem here.

What about yours?

I had 21 updates which took a looooooooooooooooooong time to install!

Avastfan1

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No problems here with Windows 7 RC1 or Vista.

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Hi folks,

None on Windows XP SP3 either, “warm an snug like a mother’s hug of health cream Shrink in the Health Beauty Parlor”,

polonus

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As always - the Avast gurus keeping it real! Cracking job lads! Keep up the great work!

Avastfan1

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Everything went fine for me on both machines. One had 17 updates and this one only 14 because it has no form of the .NET Framework installed. I have never had a problem with any MS updates in my 11 years of using Windows and Office.

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what’s M$ ? ::slight_smile:

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To avastfan1,

Check your computer’s date and time.

Do you have any Firewall running?

Turn off all Startup Items and 3rd party services in Msconfig.
Start/run and type “msconfig”

Disable all Startup items, and under the Services tab check the box called “Hide all Microsoft services”, and uncheck what ever is left.You should still be able to get online, unless you ISP needs a certain app to run on boot; but most do not

Also…
Control Panel/Internet Options/General Tab/Settings button/View Objects button.

On the page that loads remove the item called Update Class, that is the ActiveX contol that Windows Updates puts in.

Then try your WU again,

Sometimes one could experience a corrupted edb.log file but then one could not log in as admin.

"Catalog Database (784) Corruption can be here logfile C:\WINDOWS\System32\CatRoot2\edb.log. The Data not matching the log-file fill pattern first appeared in sector 9. This logfile hcan be damaged and is then unusable, try to recover through a back-up in that case if you have one,

polonus

@Logos

  • M$ is an acronym for Micro$oft- the associaton might be obvious,

pol

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I had no problems

I had 17 updates as i had NET Framework installed
Win Xp Home SP3

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@ Polonus

oh you mean just like £inux ;D
just as obvious ::slight_smile:
…and may be also just as obvious as how sarcastic my post was :smiley:

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I have finally Updated all of our computers…which took time but I didn’t keep watching computer screens, of course. All went well.

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• Linux is only free if your time has no value — Jamie Zawinski
http://keithdevens.com/quotes/Zawinski.Linux.free

My systems updated without problems.