Comments on: Hey Microsoft – can I install optional updates please?

By: George

George — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:26:25 +0000

disable the bitcomet plugin. If that doesn’t solve it try disabling Browser Helper Objects…

By: Eli Sand

Eli Sand — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:14:33 +0000

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.

By: Jamie Huskisson

Jamie Huskisson — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:30:17 +0000

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.

By: Eli Sand

Eli Sand — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:25:43 +0000

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).

By: Gordon Swaby

Gordon Swaby — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:32:55 +0000

The reason you could not install optional updates was because you were using IE lol . Jk/s

By: Darius

Darius — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:46:22 +0000

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.

By: Jamie Huskisson

Jamie Huskisson — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 23:46:22 +0000

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 :)

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:48:08 +0000

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