Windows Update Problems on new PC

Hi. I just got a brand new PC with Vista two days ago...and since I got it, I
have gotten several Windows Update errors. I cannot remember the first one I
got, but I tried one fix for it I found and that produced another error
message so I thought I undid what I did. However, now I'm getting this
situation. Wndows Update connects and says it has to install an update to the
Windows Update software. It connects, appears to install this update,
restarts Windows Update and then I get error 8007007B, saying it could not
search for updates. I click Try again, and then it tries to download this
update for the Windows Update software again. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Error message when you try to install updates on a Windows Vista-based
computer by using Windows Update or when you try to perform a backup: "Code
0x8007000b":
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939399/en-us

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AJakeWR wrote:
> Hi. I just got a brand new PC with Vista two days ago...and since I got
> it,
> I have gotten several Windows Update errors. I cannot remember the first
> one I got, but I tried one fix for it I found and that produced another
> error message so I thought I undid what I did. However, now I'm getting
> this
> situation. Wndows Update connects and says it has to install an update to
> the Windows Update software. It connects, appears to install this update,
> restarts Windows Update and then I get error 8007007B, saying it could not
> search for updates. I click Try again, and then it tries to download this
> update for the Windows Update software again. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Thank you, I did run that... but that was not for the right error code...my
code is 80007007B notice the 7 at the end, not 7000B. So, any thoughts guys?
Thanks

"PA Bear" wrote:

> Error message when you try to install updates on a Windows Vista-based
> computer by using Windows Update or when you try to perform a backup: "Code
> 0x8007000b":
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939399/en-us
>
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
> AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
> DTS-L http://dts-l.org/
>
> AJakeWR wrote:
> > Hi. I just got a brand new PC with Vista two days ago...and since I got
> > it,
> > I have gotten several Windows Update errors. I cannot remember the first
> > one I got, but I tried one fix for it I found and that produced another
> > error message so I thought I undid what I did. However, now I'm getting
> > this
> > situation. Wndows Update connects and says it has to install an update to
> > the Windows Update software. It connects, appears to install this update,
> > restarts Windows Update and then I get error 8007007B, saying it could not
> > search for updates. I click Try again, and then it tries to download this
> > update for the Windows Update software again. Any suggestions? Thanks.
>
>

free Windows Update support incident request:
https://support.microsoft.com/oas/de...spx?gprid=6527

If would be appreciated if you post back the solution MS give you so as to assist other
Vista users.

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"AJakeWR" <> wrote in message
news:0E7D3D9E-F5CE-4E2F-920F-...
| Thank you, I did run that... but that was not for the right error code...my
| code is 80007007B notice the 7 at the end, not 7000B. So, any thoughts guys?
| Thanks
|
| "PA Bear" wrote:
|
| > Error message when you try to install updates on a Windows Vista-based
| > computer by using Windows Update or when you try to perform a backup: "Code
| > 0x8007000b":
| > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939399/en-us
| >
| > --
| > ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
| > MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
| > AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
| > DTS-L http://dts-l.org/
| >
| > AJakeWR wrote:
| > > Hi. I just got a brand new PC with Vista two days ago...and since I got
| > > it,
| > > I have gotten several Windows Update errors. I cannot remember the first
| > > one I got, but I tried one fix for it I found and that produced another
| > > error message so I thought I undid what I did. However, now I'm getting
| > > this
| > > situation. Wndows Update connects and says it has to install an update to
| > > the Windows Update software. It connects, appears to install this update,
| > > restarts Windows Update and then I get error 8007007B, saying it could not
| > > search for updates. I click Try again, and then it tries to download this
| > > update for the Windows Update software again. Any suggestions? Thanks.
| >
| >

"AJakeWR" <> wrote in message
news:0E7D3D9E-F5CE-4E2F-920F-...
> Thank you, I did run that... but that was not for the right error code...my
> code is 80007007B notice the 7 at the end, not 7000B. So, any thoughts guys?


<cmd_output OS="XPsp2">
G:\>set /a c = 0x7B
123
G:\>net helpmsg %c%

The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

</cmd_output>

So, which filename, etc. is incorrect?

Codes by themselves are usually useless.
Find the context of the hex value (or the equivalent decimal value)
in any logs that the update wrote to.


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