Re: MS Update won't install on Vista with SP1.

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I don't have the option you mentioned. I've clicked on the option "Get updates for more products" which gets me to the MS Update screen. However this is not the same site that my VPC test system gets me too.


"Milhouse Van Houten" <btvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e7A$4FpbIHA.1960@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Gary, unlike on XP, "Microsoft Update" on Vista is not a separate thing or separate URL. By that I mean you access it via the normal Windows Update, but a WU update which is opted in to use Microsoft Update. Just run WU, click Change Settings, and then check "Use Microsoft Update" and rescan.

"Gary" <garyshap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:#S#HcqobIHA.4208@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Greetings:

I'm having a problem installing Microsoft Update.

I am running Vista Ultimate with SP1. The SP1 install went fine btw. Since using Vista for over a year I only used Windows Update which works fine and always has. Now that I installed Office 2007 I decided to install MS Update so I can get Office fixes too.

In a nutshell it appears when I go to the MS Update website to install it I being redirected to what might be the XP version of it. I am presuming this because I ran Vista SP1 under VPC and installed MS Update without a problem. The websites I was directed to were completely different then the ones on my 'real' machine.

The resulting MS Update installed on my 'real' machine eventually results in an error code of 0x80070002. This error was produced by the install itself which never got installed.

Here are the initial web sites that I get into when I begin the MS Update install on my 'real' and virtual machines.

Real:
http://www.update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/muoptdefault.aspx?returnurl=http://www.update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate&ln=en-us

VPC:
http://www.update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/vistadefault.aspx?ln=en-us

Notice that the VPC version has Vista in the URL. Even if I go to this address it gets redirected to the second on my real machine. I read of another problem like this on Vista without SP1 and a reinstall of Vista was the only thing that fixed the problem. All the other tips mentioned failed to work as they did with me.

So assuming something is screwed up on my machine is their a way of correcting things so I can use MS Update? Windows Update still works so I am not at my wits end.

Thanks.




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