Windows Update has encountered an error and cannot display the req

It wouldn't let me install dot net framework 3 until I uninsrtalled 3, 2, and
1. So I did. I rebooted. Now I'm getting:

Windows Update Error
Windows Update has encountered an error and cannot display the requested page.

I'll omit the profanity-laced opinions of microsoft and how they treat their
customers, and merely ask:

Dear Hadji in Pakistan:
Do you have any idea why this is happening? And while you're at it, how
about telling those funny programmers at MS to, like, specify WHAT is wrong
rather than just say "sorry, can't do it, go away".

I mean, if a server is down, say that. If VB crashed, tell what module.
Don't just tell me to uninstall the core of my application runtime system,
then say:

Windows Update has encountered an error and cannot display the requested page.

Thank you.

--flk

PS
In the unlikely case that anyone actually looks at my problem, and in the
even unliklier case that that person knows a solution, would it be too much
to ask for you to, like, email it to me so I don't have to find this forum
and look every day to see if the damage you've done to my mission-critical PC
can be fixed or not?



-- faye kane, homeless brain
Read more of my smartmouth opinions at http://blog.myspace.com/fayekane

Got Google?...

You receive a "Windows Update has encountered an error and cannot display
the requested page" error message when you try to install an update:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883614

Error message when you try to install updates from the Windows Update Web
site on a Windows XP-based computer: "Windows Update has encountered an
error and cannot display the requested page":
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914226
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/


Faye Kane, homeless brain wrote:
> It wouldn't let me install dot net framework 3 until I uninsrtalled 3, 2,
> and
> 1. So I did. I rebooted. Now I'm getting:
>
> Windows Update Error
> Windows Update has encountered an error and cannot display the requested
> page.
>
> I'll omit the profanity-laced opinions of microsoft and how they treat
> their
> customers, and merely ask:
>
> Dear Hadji in Pakistan:
> Do you have any idea why this is happening? And while you're at it, how
> about telling those funny programmers at MS to, like, specify WHAT is
> wrong
> rather than just say "sorry, can't do it, go away".
>
> I mean, if a server is down, say that. If VB crashed, tell what module.
> Don't just tell me to uninstall the core of my application runtime system,
> then say:
>
> Windows Update has encountered an error and cannot display the requested
> page.
>
> Thank you.
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