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Ok heres the deal. Installed Windows SP3 on about 10 machines.
8 of the machines had SP2 on them and are fine.
THe other 2 machiens only had SP1 on them. I updated them to SP3. Afterwards, Windows Update will scan for updates but when you try to view the updates the browser just times out.
I cleared the Internet Cache and Cookies and Deleted the Windows Update directory. I also tried uninstalling SP3. NOthing worked....
Anyone else run across this?
Louie --
When I was working with comps with SP2 on it, everything worked fine. SP3 screwed things up. The Sys Admin that I was working for said the same thing. He agreed that SP3 made things worse. He said there have been random glitches and crap, as well as a noticeable performance-decrease.
Hope this helps,
ura
My PC was at no service pack when I installed sp3, it worked fine for me, I think the best way of installing service packs is to do it straight after you get your computer or reformat it.
Umm, quick question, but why does it say uraloony was banned?! Sorry, but my advice is to reformat, it could have been a problem when installing. But, how/why was ura banned?
Uraloony was banned today because of misconduct in IRC.
Reformatting is not really an option right now. This is a production environment and I don't have enough time to do this currently.
Louie can't you uninstall the SP? or perhaps it's a hotfix that's screwing things up?
btw is uraloony permanently banned?
check the date on your machine, make sure its current, if its not then the updates wont work. i had that problem after installing SP3
I have recently reformated and reinstalled, including updates (SP3 as well),and everything semms ok
I believe SarinMage may be on the right track. Check the date for the machines which don't work with WindowsUpdate. The reason is, Microsoft is planning on moving to v5 of WindowsUpdate (at which point, the unsupported OSes will no longer have access to the site). The problem, is, if your date happens to be past the date where the change will occur, WindowsUpdate will not function properly for version 5 has not been completed yet.
AJ
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).