Re: Unable to connect to windows update site

Ruud,

It appears there's a number of things not being detected properly, or definitely needing your attention.
Your Platform is not being detected properly. Your Windows is not being identified properly.
One of the things likely causing that is that apparently ActiveX Controls are not enabled, OR, going back to your browser, it is being mis-identified as Netscape4 (which cannot support ActiveX & thus a show-stopper at W U).

With IE6 at SP2 & XP-SP2 (using IE) --- the results should read as follows:
ASPNET's HTTPBrowserCapabilities object reports that based on the User-Agent, your Browser has the following capabilities:

Type = IE6
Name = IE
Version = 6.0
Major Version = 6
Minor Version = 0
Platform = WinXP
Is Beta = False
Is Crawler = False
Is AOL = False
Is Win16 = False
Is Win32 = True
Supports Frames = True
Supports Tables = True
Supports Cookies = True
Supports VBScript = True
Supports JavaScript = True
Supports Java Applets = True
Supports ActiveX Controls = True
SecEnhanced.

Ruud: Are you running a firewall program? If so, which & did you add Windows Update site onto its "approved" list of sites?
Are you running an AV program? which one?

Do you see Set Program Access and Defaults on your menus? Check it out. See that Internet Explorer is the default browser.
--
Maurice N
MVP Windows - Shell / User
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Ruud wrote:
> I have the information
>
> From javascript:navigator.userAgent:
>
> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR
> 1.1.4322)
>
> From http://www.fiddlertool.com/useragent.aspx:
>
>
> Your browser sent the following headers:
>
> Connection=Keep-Alive
> Accept=image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg,
> application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-excel,
> application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, */*
> Accept-Encoding=gzip, deflate
> Accept-Language=en-us,nl;q=0.5
> Host=www.fiddlertool.com
> User-Agent=Mozilla/4.0
>
>
> ASPNET's HTTPBrowserCapabilities object reports that based on the
> User-Agent, your Browser has the following capabilities:
>
>
> Type = Netscape4
> Name = Netscape
> Version = 4.0
> Major Version = 4
> Minor Version = 0
> Platform = Unknown
> Is Beta = False
> Is Crawler = False
> Is AOL = False
> Is Win16 = False
> Is Win32 = False
> Supports Frames = True
> Supports Tables = True
> Supports Cookies = True
> Supports VBScript = False
> Supports JavaScript = True
> Supports Java Applets = True
> Supports ActiveX Controls = False
>
> Where does Netscape 4.0 comming from??? I never installed Netscape

.

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