Windows Updates Nightmare

Simon · May 20, 2012, 13:37:21

Oh, I thought you were you going to come up with a solution!

JB · May 20, 2012, 15:20:08

Wish I could help but sadly not. I have just run the latest updates on my Netbook and they were fine. It does have .Net installed too.

Simon · May 20, 2012, 15:24:54

I expect it's something on my machine causing it, but looking on the Internet, I'm not the only one with the problem.

pctech · May 20, 2012, 15:30:48

I do have one troublesome .net update that won't go away but like you I ticked to ignore it as I removed .net

I'll try and reinstall and then remove and see what happens.

pctech · May 20, 2012, 16:05:09

Simon

All of the .net frameworks are dependent on each other, to uninstall 2 you need to first uninstall 3.5 or 3, you will then be able to uninstall 2..

Simon · May 20, 2012, 16:44:58

Do we need them all, Mitch? Can't I just have the latest one?

Steve · May 20, 2012, 16:48:35

Some applications require the older versions of .net.

pctech · May 20, 2012, 16:50:57

They seem to build on top of each other so yes am afraid so.

Also came across this http://blogs.microsoft.nl/blogs/tonykrijnen/archive/2007/01/18/9885.aspx

Simon · May 20, 2012, 16:54:16

Bugger.

pctech · May 20, 2012, 16:57:54

I've got a similar issue now so am going to follow the steps in that post to get Windows to rebuild the catalogue.

Steve · May 20, 2012, 17:06:23

I think that's probably a worthwhile exercise.

pctech · May 20, 2012, 17:28:09

Unbelieveably it survived all that in my case at least.

Must be a registry setting somewhere....

Simon · May 20, 2012, 17:47:06

I though mine had been fixed too, Mitch. Give it 24 hours...

pctech · May 20, 2012, 17:54:58

I'm trying to purge the registry of all references.

MS has a tool apparently but you have to install .net framework 2 to uninstall 1.1!

Rik · May 20, 2012, 17:57:04

Redmont's rules, OK?

pctech · May 20, 2012, 18:00:11

Found this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908077

Dinner time for me and work tomorrow so going to call it a night I think.

Wish the Government would legislate weekends should be three days and not two, two just isn't enough.

Rik · May 20, 2012, 18:40:09

Retire, Mitch, they can be as long as you like...

pctech · May 21, 2012, 11:28:39

If I win the lottery I just might

pctech · May 21, 2012, 21:21:47

I've installed everything and now I've got the same problem as you Simon.

Simon · May 21, 2012, 22:03:28

Quote from: pctech on May 21, 2012, 21:21:47
I've installed everything and now I've got the same problem as you Simon.

I thought I'd cured it last night, by installing previous updates I found that hadn't been installed, but it's back again now.

Let me know if you find a cure, Mitch, as I'm just going to ignore them now, given that nothing seems to fix the problem.

Rik · May 22, 2012, 06:00:30

Contact MS, support is free for security upgrades.

Simon · May 22, 2012, 07:25:44

I can imagine having to take a day off for that.

Rik · May 22, 2012, 09:26:04

I've told you a million times not to exaggerate.

pctech · May 22, 2012, 09:37:25

Going to try and tackle it tonight, just trying to find where there's a replica catalogue that's not being removed.

I don't really want to start randomly hacking at the registry because reinstallation would be a long task and I don't really have time to do it during the week but I also rely on my system for more than just reading this forum.

Simon · May 22, 2012, 11:12:24

Really? There's something else?