Difficulties accessing windowsupdate

Hello all.

Am I the only one experiencing difficulties accessing windows update in the
last two days or is it a general issue?

I am accessing from Italy and encountering slow downs and subsequent locks.

Any help appreciated.

Stefano

No you are not the only one. I just noticed it Friday night and when I went
in to check windows update I found out that I apparently have had the problem
for over a month. It started on November 11, 2005. But, before I realized
that, I thought I had done something wrong, like adding a game or bringing
down the wrong web site, etc. I tried, to no avail to clean up, system
restore, etc. I've been in a big mess ever since. I still haven't corrected
the problem. I just turned to microsoft website for the newsgroup just now.
I was in touch with microsoft, or rather, I wrote to them about the problem,
BUT, they did realize that my whole web function had collapsed. All weekend
I have been trying to right this situation. Finally, just to get my website
back up and receive e-mail, I begged my dsl carrier to reset the web for me.
They did, but there apparently is no real answer to this problem. I have
been reading the other mail, and it seems very technical to me. I am afraid
of doing such stuff because I don't know if I make a mistake that I will be
able to revert back to the default. Especially if the web freezes up again
as it has done all weekend.

"Stefano Ferrante" wrote:

> Hello all.
>
> Am I the only one experiencing difficulties accessing windows update in the
> last two days or is it a general issue?
>
> I am accessing from Italy and encountering slow downs and subsequent locks.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Stefano
>
>
>

Stefano Ferrante wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> Am I the only one experiencing difficulties accessing windows update in the
> last two days or is it a general issue?
>
> I am accessing from Italy and encountering slow downs and subsequent locks.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Stefano
>
>
I had difficulties but i did not know what to tie it in to.

I found a resolution courtesy of google and some insights on this forum
(some of which lead to detecting a pair of (alleged) trojans that seem
to have slipped by Zone Alarms, Ad-aware, S&D (try Trend Micros Homecall)

Plus I identified some errors on my part by not alerting scans to a
multi-platter arrangement so i may have missed what happened on data
drives by focussing on system disk exclusively.

The only other changes I made were to install Google Earth, Firefox 1.5
and google toolbar (Earth & toolbar now ditched)

"Stefano Ferrante" wrote:

> Hello all.
>
> Am I the only one experiencing difficulties accessing windows update in the
> last two days or is it a general issue?
>
> I am accessing from Italy and encountering slow downs and subsequent locks.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Stefano
>
>
>

Some have reported that simply re-registering the MSXML3.DLL seems to fix the
problem.
1. Click Start.
2. Choose Run.
3. In the Run box, type: regsvr32 MSXML3.DLL
Press okay

If that hasn't helped you may need to re-registered some more files:

1. Click Start.
2. Choose Run.
3. In the Run box, type (pressing okay after each one) :-

net stop wuauserv

Repeat for the following:
regsvr32 wuapi.dll
regsvr32 wups.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng1.dll
regsvr32 wucltui.dll
regsvr32 wuweb.dll
regsvr32 MSXML3.dll
regsvr32 qmgr.dll
regsvr32 qmgrprxy.dll
regsvr32 jscript.dll

net start wuauserv

Gary

"Stefano Ferrante" wrote:

> Hello all.
>
> Am I the only one experiencing difficulties accessing windows update in the
> last two days or is it a general issue?
>
> I am accessing from Italy and encountering slow downs and subsequent locks.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Stefano
>
>
>

"Viking" <> ha scritto nel messaggio
news2426DBB-CD04-4C75-BC01-...
> Some have reported that simply re-registering the MSXML3.DLL seems to fix
> the
> problem.
> 1. Click Start.
> 2. Choose Run.
> 3. In the Run box, type: regsvr32 MSXML3.DLL
> Press okay
>
> If that hasn't helped you may need to re-registered some more files:
>

Thx for your support but the problem fixed itself magically today; it was
something wrong with Microsoft, not my pc ;-)

S.