Try changing your default from Microsoft Update to Windows Update and seeing
if the problem persists: Go to Microsoft Update > Click on Change Settings
in left pane > Scroll to bottom of page > To Stop Using Microsoft Update >
Disable Microsoft Update software and let me use Windows Update only
(check).
NB: With Windows Update as your default, you will need to check in at Office
Update to keep your Office applications fully patched:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/do...incatalog.aspx
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear), working offline
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org
Eliot wrote:
> I have the same problem and when I click that link I get the Microsoft
> Update site - NOT windows update. What does that mean?
>
> "PA Bear" wrote:
>
>> If you click on this link http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com, are you
>> taken
>> to Microsoft Update website or Windows Update website?
>> --
>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
>> MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
>> AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org
>>
>> HuntinHippysnr wrote:
>>> I have tried to update my Window Defender Definitions and have been
>>> unable to do so. I have tried updating from Windows Defender and
>>> recieved
>>> error code 0x80070643. I then tried doing so from Windows Update on
>>> Windows
>>> Vista Ultamate and recieved error code 80070714. The update wouldn't
>>> download from Windows Defender Update and did from Windows Vista
>>> Ultimate
>>> Update Extras. It created a restore point but would not install. I
>>> didn't
>>> find any documentation at MS online for either of these error codes as
>>> of
>>> 4/19/07. Between the two attempts PC Tools Spyware Doctor removed a
>>> cookie.
>>> I do not depend on Windows Defender to protect my PC. I have McAfee
>>> Security Center installed on the computer as well as the Spydoctor. If
>>> you
>>> can help me with this issue it would be most helpful if you could give
>>> me
>>> the source for these error codes.
>>> Thanks.
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