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I don't use Automatic Updates, but if you do, and find the yellow shield never goes away, you may be experiencing this problem.

To see, try running Windows Update manually from the website to insure it can install patches. A brief search turned up forum postings at Microsoft. The thread includes an email from Microsoft technical support with three possible fixes. One of them, involving re-registering DLLs, was my fallback if the first suggestion didn't work. Finally, let me repeat a warning about upgrading to Internet Explorer 7.

When you first install IE7, you get a known buggy version. After rebooting, run Windows Update immediately to get the patch shown below. Update July 27, After installing XP SP3 and all the subsequent patches on three more computers, my best guess is that the problem has to do with the type of license for Windows. On all four machines that were purchased from the same hardware vendor very different models , Windows Update broke.

However, a copy of Windows XP purchased at retail in a shrink-wrapped box had no problems with Windows Update. See a summary of all my Defensive Computing postings. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. January 21st, at Thanks very much Phil. Your fix is absolutely great! Now if I could only get my Win 7 machine working the way I want it …. January 25th, at It really worked! How come Microsoft cannot fix it when you can?

January 27th, at January 28th, at January 29th, at January 31st, at Alan C. February 3rd, at Thank you Phil. February 9th, at February 13th, at It just worked — brilliant!!

February 18th, at February 24th, at Hi Phil, that works perfect! Regards, Joe. February 25th, at Thanks again, it was much appreciated and worth every penny!

February 28th, at Randy Nolte. March 2nd, at Liked it so much I donated twice Thanx for the fix. March 18th, at March 20th, at Excellent tool! I tried it on two xp-computers and both work fine now! April 4th, at June 5th, at May 7th, at Roger Wright. June 2nd, at Thank you thank you thank you. Comment pages « Previous 1 2 3 Name required. E-Mail will not be published required.

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