ladies n Gents,

I am not really that computer savy, but after reading several posts
from different sites and this pretty cool place, I have learned a bit.

I have a Dell Inspiron 1721 laptop running Vista Home Premium. About a
month ago, when I got home from the desert, I noticed that it was not
installing updates. The last to install in a long line of "successful"
updates was "windows update agent 7.2.6001.788" There after, most
everything would fail with the exception of the sporadic malicious
software removal tool or junk email filter. Also, when watching movies
in WMP, it would result in the blue screen of death, but restart fine.

So I looked at the installed updates to see if I could locate the
"windows update agent 7.2.6001.788". The last one to successfully updae
and delete it and then reinstall it, but I didn't I didn't see it listed
by name or date installed.

After reading a lot here and there about the update issue, I came about
the sfc /scannow. I figured out how to get it in the command elevated
prompt and in administrative mode. It would only run to 12% and stop
but sfc/ verify would run to completion. So checking the cbs.log file,
it had a ton of stuff in there, but I have no idea what I am looking at.
Would it be appropriate to post it in here, or is there a location to
copy it to elsewhere?

Again, I'm not to smart on this stuff, anything that would help would
be appreciated.

Thank you in advance,

Jake


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Jake, I see it's been awhile since you posted this with no replies. I'm not
too savy with computers either, but I can telll you of my experience lately.
I had update problems a couple of time over the months and had, as it turned
out, two different problems.

First off I had a virus that thwarted any attempt my automatic process made
to update Microsoft apps. It was a "redirect" virus and I think I may have
gotten it from sitting on cyber toilet seats, but with the help of four
applications: gmer, hijackthis, superantispyware and autorun I got rid of it.
But of course that tied other knots in my cybertail. I had to do a restore
eventually which negated all I had done.

Another thing (and Microsoft support won't hear of this) during that time I
called the microsoft "safety" security phone number and a recording told me I
had to try OneCare first (which is good for ninety days free). I downloaded
and installed it, but to install it, it requires that you uninstall any
security or antispyware you have installed. Oh, it doesn't require you
disable your antispyware, it requires you to uninstall it. I was disgusted
but I threw away Avira antispyware that costed me $29 to buy.

Then Onecare took over my life. I'm not going to go into detail, but it also
disallowed not only any updates of any of my other software, but even would
not allow any Microsoft updates either. I tried to open a hole in Defender's
firewall but it made no difference. I finally decided to uninstall OneCare
but that's not so easy to do. I had to call the support phone number and
argue with some guy from India before he provided me with a temporary weblink
to download an uninstaller.

Then I was finally able to do the updates. I'd really like to know why
Onecare is such an unreasonable dictator. My second wife was the same
way...... LOL

"jake1ekaj" wrote:


ladies n Gents,

I am not really that computer savy, but after reading several posts
from different sites and this pretty cool place, I have learned a bit.

I have a Dell Inspiron 1721 laptop running Vista Home Premium. About a
month ago, when I got home from the desert, I noticed that it was not
installing updates. The last to install in a long line of "successful"
updates was "windows update agent 7.2.6001.788" There after, most
everything would fail with the exception of the sporadic malicious
software removal tool or junk email filter. Also, when watching movies
in WMP, it would result in the blue screen of death, but restart fine.

So I looked at the installed updates to see if I could locate the
"windows update agent 7.2.6001.788". The last one to successfully updae
and delete it and then reinstall it, but I didn't I didn't see it listed
by name or date installed.

After reading a lot here and there about the update issue, I came about
the sfc /scannow. I figured out how to get it in the command elevated
prompt and in administrative mode. It would only run to 12% and stop
but sfc/ verify would run to completion. So checking the cbs.log file,
it had a ton of stuff in there, but I have no idea what I am looking at.
Would it be appropriate to post it in here, or is there a location to
copy it to elsewhere?

Again, I'm not to smart on this stuff, anything that would help would
be appreciated.

Thank you in advance,

Jake


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