windowsupdate won't work

What kind and version of WIndows du you got?!

krukken: Maybe XP, when this category is the Win. XP-categori!... :o)

yup.. XP in did

Lytter lige med :)

Windows update dosn't work on my win2000 or win98 machine either.

ok. I found this solution but I havn't tested it yet. I will let you know how it went later on..

"download the latest virtual machine (Build 3802, dated 1/25/01).

http://download.microsoft.com/downl...US/msjavx86.exe

Windows Update should work perfectly then"

Her er et link der duer: http://www.microsoft.com/java/vm/dl_vm40.htm?FinishURL=%2Fdownloads%2Frelease%2Easp%3Freleaseid%3D36820%26area%3Dtop%26ordinal%3D6%26redirect%3Dno

håber jeg.

Virker ikke her!!!

OK.. Problem solved.

Believe it or not, I actually send the error number to Microsoft. Their suggestion was:

- Set IE security to low
- Clean temp files and cookies
- Unregister and delete wuv3is.dll
- Delete downloaded objects

I did that but NADA - It didn't help !

In a desperate attempt, I decided to bypass the company's firewall and connected my laptop to a different ISP through my mobile phone - and guess what... Windowsupdate worked !!!

What I then figured out was that the problem was all along on the Cisco PIX firewall which was set to filter activeX commands, Java applets, and other HTML <object> usages from outbound packets. Once removed, windows update was working again from within our LAN.

What got me all confused there, was that although the activeX filter was set, I did not have problems using windows update on windows 2000 clients at any time. That led to me to believe the problem was OS related.

/Michael