There are fixes available to repair Windows Update.

I have a friend with a "white box" from a company out of business,
and his Windows Update NEVER worked.
I was never able to fix it. (In all fairness to myself, I never tried more
than 30-60 minutes, and gave up since it did not respond to the
standard fixes, AND he has two kids and lots of trash in/on the computer.

Its legal, and everything else works, so nobody cared...
I had to "force" these people off of Netscape 3 for email when it got too
old...  <grin>

                                             Rick Glazier

From: "Ian" <[log in to unmask]>
> Here's a curious thing - a customer, running W98SE, had never updated or
> patched his originally installed
> Internet Explorer 5.
>
> So I sat with him and showed him how to get to the Windows update site, then
> looked for available updates.  There were none available!  No patches, no
> updates, nothing available for him to download.
>
> So I applied an archive that I keep on a CD, that took his IE5 to IE 5.5.  I
> use this one regularly to take new W98 builds to within about 75% of a full
> upgrade, then I finish them off online.
>
> But after rebooting with IE upgraded to 5.5, still no Microsoft updates
> available.
>
> I've never seen this behaviour before - can anyone comment?

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