Re: Help Me PLEASE

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From: mica (no_nomine_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:52:18 GMT

Windows XP Pro, SP2 and v5 windows update software. Guess what - I too get
stuck at the searching for the latest version message when running windows
update.

When I tried the v4 windowsupdate link, it told me that I needed to be
logged on as administrator to do this. I WAS logged on as administrator!! I
even checked to make sure that administrator still had administrative
permissions (in case SP2 messed with that too, as a 'security measure'). I
even launched the (v5) update checker application in system32 with 'run as'
and set it to administrator and entered the password.

It sounds like there's some security/permissions screwup going on here,
between SP2 and. v5 of windows update.

M

"Melissa" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:934a01c496c3$7891b2a0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> You can still access the old update page. Use the
> following link to download windows update using version 4.
>
> http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/catalog/en/default.a
> sp
>
> Click on window update in the left hand pane under see
> also. run window update like normal
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >i open the update site and it tries to search for
> updates and the box were
> >you choose install or yes dont appear...... please help
> me is there anything
> >i can do to make it work?
> >.
> >

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