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It has today's date. And do you people read anything. I said I uninstalled SP3 and still have the same issue. I know when you first login to Windows Update you have to download some kind of active x thingy. I deleted them all...but it's not asking me to redownload it.
Is that weird?
You may think you uninstalled it but check the registry. Sometimes things don't get completely deleted, even after cleaning out the cache.
With this being a production machine, you really should think about purchasing software like ImageCast or Ghost. Get a good, solid build on a machine and get an image of it. Keep it on file and when you have something like this happen, it will only take 20-30 minutes to get that machine back up to where it was before it got hosed.....At least that's what my company does.
Also, go to Google Groups and do a search to see if anyone else has had the same problem. Find out what they did to resolve it.
Good luck in finding your solution.
Have you tried contacting Microsoft on this? I remember reading a few weeks ago (I'm not sure where) someone who reported a similar problem at another site. They e-mailed Microsoft and they were directed to an article which discussed what to remove from the hard disk and registry to enable you to re-download the necessary ActiveX controls to get WindowsUpdate to work again. If I recall correctly, it was not a SP3 issue, specifically, but could happen on any Windows 2000 system if something within the environment was set up wrong.
AJ
I have had this problem too many times...
I have seemed to get around it when I use this link.
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.co...riticalupdates
If I don't use this link, I get stuck everytime. That is for both 2k and xp with the latest services packs.
With win2k, If I had sp2 on it, it would work just fine, if not it would freeze.
I found many more solutions that seemed to help other people.
Let the windows update time out and copy the error code. just put the error code in google and I found many groups that had similar problems.
Hope this helped.
Phish I will try that out tonight thanks.
Another option you can use is from BigFix
They make their own patch detection software that connects to Microsoft and Macromedia. It runs in the SystemTray, and every day it checks your machine against their own database of patches for any you are missing. When/if it finds one, it lets you know, and gives you a link to download and install the patch.
I am running BigFix on my machine with SP3. I keep Windows Update service disabled; I don't like the machine statictics sent via the new WindowsUpdate (check out the disclaimer on the WindowsUpdate site for details).