I have tried Mozilla/Firefox before and couldn’t use it and the only option I had was to go to system restore, so I am afraid to try this again, because I don’t want to lose my gaming ability.
There’s an NVidia update available and I’d like to install it along with the 14 other updates offered, but i don’t know what else to try.
I’m kinda leery about clicking on 64 bit, because it also caused all kinds of problems before (when we already had the 32) and we spent like an hour on the phone with AT&T tech support.
If you’ve got the 64 bit version of IE available, you’re running 64 bit Vista.
On the Start Menu, you should have an option which says ‘Windows Update’ or ‘Microsoft Update’. That’s what you should be using. To use Windows Update in manual mode, you need to be logged in as an administrator. Turning off UACmay also be necessary to solve the problem.
Okay, before I mess something up, let me just tell you that the UA section has my name as the administrator, but there is no password created.
The system is telling me that if I create a password then I will lose EFS encrypted files, certificates, network and stored passwords.
How can I avoid this happening, when, according to them, if I want to turn off UA, I need a password, and also (and I know I shouldn’t have been doing this, but I thought it would help w/ my short term memory loss), is there a way to look at all the passwords I let windows “remember”, and write them down/print them out?
Here’s some more info that may help you help me, Quartz:
The last sucessful update was for Microsoft Silverlight on 1/20/10. Before that date there’s a very long list (including SP II for Vista) which failed (going back to last year). Befor November of '09, everything was successful with only sporadic failures.
I have nocticed that everytime Windows tried to update Office Outlook 7, it failed, and I think I know why: I have NEVER been able to accurately configure Outlook on ANY computer I have had, and all the information I have ever read on the net indicates that it’s a bitch to do, so every time I click on a “contact us” on a website, I just copy and paste the address, “x” out of the outlook prompt and write the e-mail from yahoo.
Could the fact that Outlook isn’t “properly installed/configured” on my computer be causing all this mess?
I REALLY appreciate your help. Would a screen shot of all the failures for you to look at do any good?
Could you describe your Outlook troubles in more detail? It is not especially hard to configure but there is specific info you need to set it up. Your ISP should freely provide this info (type of mail server- POP3 most likely, incoming and outgoing mail server addresses and if Secure Password Authentication is needed) and possibly even instructions on how to set it up.
It should be possible to update Outlook without configuring it first but I’ve never tried it.
You could try manually installing the updates that fail and going from there. Alternately, uninstall Office, reboot, run Windows Update and then once finished re-install Office.
Got this when I tried to uninstall Microsoft office Trial 2007: Error 25090. Office Setup encountered a problem with the Office Source Engine, system error: -2147023836. Please open SETUP.CHM and look for “Office Source Engine” for information on how to resolve this problem.
Outlook Error message: The message could not be sent. You don’t have any accounts configured for sending e-mail. please verify account configuration.
Microsoft Office 2007 trial has disappeared from the control panel install/uninstall list, although the compatibilty pack remains. Apparently, I now have to find the Office 2003 disc and re-install?
Went to Update once again and this installed successfully: Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack Service Pack 2 (SP2)
Installation date: 1/29/2010 6:11 AM
Installation status: Successful
Update type: Important
Service Pack 2 provides the latest updates to the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack.
You should always get your latest graphics driver from the manufacturer. Microsoft’s certification process that allows driver updates to appear on Windows Update takes forever which results in them serving up “updates” that have been obsolete for months. Windows Update offers you a version of Nvidia graphics drivers from Sept. 2009? The most current version offered by Nvidia on their website is from 11 days ago.
Also, if you try to install a driver through Windows Update and it is older than the version you already have it will spit errors out at you similar to what you have described. For the longest time Windows Update was convinced it had a better version of my network driver but it would never install because the one I already had was newer. I think I ended up hiding the update.
As for your Office dilemma, it sounds very strange. You had a trial version and now it won’t uninstall and it’s asking you to install again so you can uninstall it? Well, the good news is you can do it manually. The bad news is this is not an easy process. But if you’ve got a lot of time on your hands and you feel like digging deep into the guts of your system via rusty chainsaw, here you go:
