Hi essexboy, glad you stepped in.

I don’t know, you will have to check with the OP by yourself. This is not really my battlegrounds here… I was just about to pm you for help.

;D

But it seems that it’s not .net.

I had this problem on one I was playing with last week for a friend. What I did was run the fixit in aggressive mode and then started downloading updates from the latest to the oldest - and everytime I got to a dotnet update I had to do the whole rigmarole again ;D

What is “aggressive mode”…? ::slight_smile:

Maybe she is using a pirated version of XP ???

Got a pirated copy of XP? Expect to be nagged
http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2008/08/got_a_pirated_copy_of_xp_expect_to_be_nagged.html

Was thinking about that too… but until now the updates seem to have worked.
And she never came back after the last tool I gave her - maybe that solved the problem?
We’ll wait and se…

Aggressive mode is where windows updates is reset to its pristine condition - as if it was straight out of the box

There are signs of a cracked/illegal windows and none were present that I could see ;D

How do you reset to pristine condition?

[edit] …learning nice new english words… pristine. I like that one. ;D

We are here to educate the unenlightened masses ;D ;D ;D

What do you want off the context menu? Edit the screenshot and mark the context menu options. :slight_smile:

When I think of pristine I get a nice image. :wink:

So do I.

still wont work. dont know whats the problem is/

does this have to do with how i reformat the pc? cause when we reformat the pc the Local Disk C change its name to Local Disk D; then the Local disk D; Change to disk C: dont know what happened

That could be part of the problem… ::slight_smile:

Let’s try this one: MS Tool 2

Go there with Internet Explorer, click the “Fix it for me”. There will be two options: normal mode & aggressive mode.
Try the normal mode first, reboot, test. If that did not fix it, try the aggressive mode, reboot and check again.

Please report back after you tried that.

:wink:

failed, again

it didnt worked

Could you try again please to get updates - and when it fails note the error for me

You noticed her screenshot, essexboy? System drive is "D:"… Any impact on this problem?

Shouldn’t do if it was initially installed on that drive - as all variables should point to D

it says that. "Problem: A problem on your computer is preventing updates from being downloaded or installed "

With all due respect to the professional folks here I really think that post up there needs some explanation. This is mighty weird under any circumstances. Changing partition size, or adding a partition I am familiar with, but I’m not understanding what is meant here by “reformating” the PC. What exactly was “reformatted” and when? And the “name changing” business needs explanation.

In other words, I think y’all should forget about the updates for now and refocus attention on some sort of system screwup on a not so small scale. I’d also recommend getting personal data, documents, pictures, etc. stored onto a memory stick or something before doing anything else, as I smell trouble right around the corner. Of course, you’ve probably already done that, but a reminder is standard when getting into such troubleshooting.