Re: CORRECTED POST-Windows update local network problem-can you help?

From: PA Bear (PABear_at_mvps.org)
Date: 08/21/04


Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 23:09:33 -0400

Look in iuhist.xml (a file on your machine) for errors associated with the
failed installs. Compare them to those found here:
http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/v5consumer/default.aspx?ln=en

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Benny wrote:
> Using Win XP Pro (no SP2 installed yet), I have a laptop networked to my
> desktop computer. Since I installed the new v5 Windows Update software,
> the networked laptop will not accept any updates (worked fine before). The
> desktop is the internet interface, and has the XP firewall running- the
> laptop firewall is off. The laptop's Windows Update page listed several
> updates, but then gave a fail message without anything appearing to be
> downloaded. Manual downloads of the update files from the individual KB
> pages to the laptop worked fine. The desktop update worked OK.
> I suspect there may be some simple setting on my networked laptop that I
> need to change to get it to accept updates from the v5 update page- but
> what is it? 


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