Can't Access Microsoft Update

I recently installed a new, larger hard boot drive and cloned all the
data from the old drive to the new. When I tried to access Microsoft
Windows Update, I got the following message:
Thank you for your interest in obtaining updates from our site.

This website is designed to work with Microsoft Windows operating
systems only.
To find updates for Microsoft products that are designed for Macintosh
operating systems, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/mac/.

Also, I get control panel program errors for hotplug.dll and
hdwwiz.cpl when I try to safely remove a USB flash drive. Both
problems seemed to start at the same time.

I am running Win 2K sp4 on a dell pc. Might anyone have a suggestion
on how to fix this?

wrote:
> I recently installed a new, larger hard boot drive and cloned all the
> data from the old drive to the new. When I tried to access Microsoft
> Windows Update, I got the following message:
> Thank you for your interest in obtaining updates from our site.
>
> This website is designed to work with Microsoft Windows operating
> systems only.
> To find updates for Microsoft products that are designed for Macintosh
> operating systems, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/mac/.
>
> Also, I get control panel program errors for hotplug.dll and
> hdwwiz.cpl when I try to safely remove a USB flash drive. Both
> problems seemed to start at the same time.
>
> I am running Win 2K sp4 on a dell pc. Might anyone have a suggestion
> on how to fix this?
>

Go to the MS website and download and install IE6 sp1. This should
rectify the www.windowsupdate.com issues.

Steve

Youre problem(s) lie in active X,open internet options,settings,view objects,
R.click on each 1 @ a time,select update.You'll find they are corrupted after
cloning the hd

"" wrote:

> I recently installed a new, larger hard boot drive and cloned all the
> data from the old drive to the new. When I tried to access Microsoft
> Windows Update, I got the following message:
> Thank you for your interest in obtaining updates from our site.
>
> This website is designed to work with Microsoft Windows operating
> systems only.
> To find updates for Microsoft products that are designed for Macintosh
> operating systems, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/mac/.
>
> Also, I get control panel program errors for hotplug.dll and
> hdwwiz.cpl when I try to safely remove a USB flash drive. Both
> problems seemed to start at the same time.
>
> I am running Win 2K sp4 on a dell pc. Might anyone have a suggestion
> on how to fix this?
>
>

<> schrieb:

>I recently installed a new, larger hard boot drive and cloned all the
> data from the old drive to the new. When I tried to access Microsoft
> Windows Update, I got the following message:
> Thank you for your interest in obtaining updates from our site.
>
> This website is designed to work with Microsoft Windows operating
> systems only.
[...]
> I am running Win 2K sp4 on a dell pc.

In case you're accessing the Windows Update via Internet Explorer 6 SP1
(6.0.2800.1106) and still get the error message:
Go to http://winware.org/de/browsertest.php
What's the shown there in the User-Agent line while accessing the
site whith Internet Explorer?

See also http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817144 - "Method 4".

Bye,
Freudi