I'm repairing a friend's XP box -- 'had multiple viruses, and has woefully
outdated H/W, but it's what she's stuck with until she can get re-employed!
I now have all viri purged and XP and Ofc completely updated, BUT...
In repairing XP, I'm accustomed to using
Help & Support Center -> Task: Windows Update
to pull down updates. On this box each time I try that it whites-out the
H&SC lower window but fails to go further -- to present the choice of Custom
or Automatic update. I'm guessing this means it's confused about how/where
to link to the update service.
If I browse (IE7) to MS directly, I can go to the update page and everything
works, so it's not a connectivity issue. I've used this to bring everything
up-to-date on XP/Ofc.
I'm hesitant to return this to my friend without fixing this: I don't know
whether or not XP will even do -automatic- updates if it can't do manual ones
through H&SC! As I'm clueless about the Registry entries (or whatever) that
control this, I need some direction. I'm quite confortable making registry
changes, and have another XP box nearby if the answer's just to
export->import a registry branch.
Thanks for any assistance you can provide!