So I’m installing updates on an old PC of mine before handing it over to it’s new owner and I’m near the end of the 80 or so security updates since SP2 and I remember about the ‘optional’ updates Microsoft offers.
10 optional software upgrades and 1 hardware upgrade available to download. So I click the links and guess what happens:
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What happened is that the link opened up inside the frame usually reserved for content, but opened up the entire website all over again. It happens in both IE6 and IE7 and since Microsoft only allows access to the site via Microsoft browsers – it’s now impossible for me to get at these updates.
Automatic updates only allow high priority updates to be downloaded.. so the new PC owner is now without Windows Media Player 11, .net framework 2.0 and whatever hardware update which happened to be on that hidden page.
Another reason why macs are so much better…
You may want to see this if you are going to install vista..
http://my.break.com/media/view.aspx?ContentID=218084
What a waste..
I’ll probably install Vista eventually.. but as long as I can get IE6 and IE7 running in parallels through XP I’ll leave the upgrade :)
I wouldn’t install vista for a good 6 months and yea i agree a waste could ave a least given the money 2 charity instead off wasting it on a video.
The reason you could not install optional updates was because you were using IE lol . Jk/s
I bet of those many, many required updates it was asking you to install – a few of those were patches to Internet Explorer. If you just let it apply those patches first, then come back and try to grab the optional patches this won’t happen. You may also want to ensure that if you’ve got any whacky IE plugins or odd security settings, that you at least set *.microsoft.com as a trusted site and also disable any 3rd party IE plugins you think might be causing problems (you can do that within IE btw, don’t need to uninstall anything).
That’s part of the problem Eli.. there’s 87 required updates to install for XP since SP2. And most of the optional updates can’t be installed until at least 5 of the required updates are installed.
This install is also as fresh as you can get.. freshly partitioned and put on, only drivers installed – no programs.
Yep, I know the feeling :) I’ve had to do a few XP re-installs and I’m very glad I have an SP2 install disk so I don’t have to deal with *all* the updates.
disable the bitcomet plugin. If that doesn’t solve it try disabling Browser Helper Objects…