Manual W.U./How do I change URL to V4 ?

Hi,

I tried to manually run W.U. by clicking on tools->Windows Update from IE.
The address bar indicated that the connection was to
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

The connection was made to the website but the page appeared blank and
the status indicated "Done but with errors on page". I did some research
which led me to try a different URL, http://V4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
This worked fine.

I would like to have W.U. point to this "v4 URL" instead of the old URL.
How can I force this change?

Also, am I using the correct version? I'm running Windows 2kPro and all
critical patches are up to date.

Thanks, Frank

Your original link should be fine - and redirect to the appropriate vX level
for your PC.
It may be that something in the redirect is faulting because of security
settings that you are running (although I'd have expected it to also fault
on the v4 site), or that you are running with a proxy, firewall or other
such, that has interfered.

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"Frank_tech" <> wrote in message
news:703219BF-E378-4425-9358-...
> Hi,
>
> I tried to manually run W.U. by clicking on tools->Windows Update from IE.
> The address bar indicated that the connection was to
> http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
>
> The connection was made to the website but the page appeared blank and
> the status indicated "Done but with errors on page". I did some research
> which led me to try a different URL,
> http://V4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
> This worked fine.
>
> I would like to have W.U. point to this "v4 URL" instead of the old URL.
> How can I force this change?
>
> Also, am I using the correct version? I'm running Windows 2kPro and all
> critical patches are up to date.
>
> Thanks, Frank