Re: Can't install updates Error code 0X80070643

In which case I sincerely apologise.

My frustration clearly caused a narrow focus and I'd not understood the
first line of your response.

I've experienced too many pointless and superior responses to questions in
the past, having clearly explained the particular problem, and have grown
tired of knowledgeable people putting down the less knowlegeable.

I'm grateful you don't simply ignore my purile response and repeated your
previous advice to Hinkywil which, I'm glad to say, has solved my problem.

Mia Culpa


"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

PaulE wrote:
Well gee thanks Shenan, that was about as helpful as a cut finger
in a glass of vinegar! I'm having the same problem as Hinkywil and
your smart response directing us to a link explaining how to ask
questions the smart way was, well, simply pathetic. Did it not
occur to you that Hinkywil and people of a similar frustration need
help and not some smart geek telling us how stupid we are. It's bad
enough Microsoft not making matters easier by introducing these
issues without people like you adding to the frustration!

Does anyone have a suitable and acceptable answer to this annoying
issue with Microsoft update?

First off - that is always my signature - never changes. Has been for two+
years. If you took offense to it - it was for lack of research on your part
and knowing that is *not* directed at anyone in particular - but is left
there as a general reference - always in my signature.

If you had actually took what I said and searched for Hinkywil's other
posting you would have not only seen that my signature was the same in the
other answer - but that there was a suggested procedure to follow to help
resolve their issue (assuming they were usiing Windows XP - like you there
has been no information of substance given to resolve a problem that only
the poster sees.) I told the responder to see my response to their other
(identical) question as they must have mistakenly posted it twice and I saw
no need to answer it twice - they could just see the message they posted
earlier about the same issue and the associated answers. I am sorry you did
not take that advice and decided to take out your frustrations on me.

For *your* benefit - here is what I asked/told them:

Operating system in question?
Updates in question?
What have you 'tried'?

Get Dial-a-Fix:
http://wiki.djlizard.net/Dial-a-fix

Use its options to fix:
- Windows Installer
- Windows Update
- All the Registration Center options.

Turn off the "Empty System32\Catroot 2"
Do NOT do "Flush SoftwareDistribution".

Then click "GO" and wait until it is done... Reboot will be needed.

- Download/Install Windows Update v3.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=889482fc-5f56-4a38-b838-de776fd4138c&DisplayLang=en
(You *will* need to install it using the command line switch "/wuforce"
right
after the reboot - immediately after logging in.)

- Download/Install the 927891 patch.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7A81B0CD-A0B9-497E-8A89-404327772E5A

- Reboot.

- Visit http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ and scan for/install updates.

- Come back and let us know how things went!

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html



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