broadband no like update!
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 12:44 pm
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Posted by julee
(24 messages posted)
OK, this is a weird one. When I'm on broadband (wifi) The link for "Windows Update"
(http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ ) gives me a 404 type error: "Internet Explorer
cannot display the webpage...".
I fiddled around with my Windows directory some time back (killed off CABs, among
other things; may have munged JAVA), and would have just assumed I mucked something
up. But for 3 things: 1) haven't really had a problem with anything ELSE, 2) it
doesn't FIND the page and then have trouble USING it -- it cannot even GET TO the
page, and 3) it finds the page and grabs the updates just fine...on DIALUP!
Or at least on Juno dialup. I seem to think I got the same 404 on NZ dialup, but
I can't quite recall atm. All I know is that I was **STUNNED** to see the page come
up no problem via Juno last night, after months (on wifi) thinking I would never
see it again sans reinstall or somesuch.
[If I didn't have like 500M of updates backlogged, I'd just go ahead and do it on
Juno, but. I did let it grab a COUPLE, tho, just to prove that it worked.]
AFAIK I have no firewall running. I do have AV (Avira), but can't imagine that is
an issue since the page is only blocked/invisible ON BROADBAND?!
What could POSSIBLY be at issue here?
TIA!
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