Hi all,
I'm about to send my Vista Ultimate CD back to MS encased in a bag of my own bodily filth. I've never used such an unstable and broken piece of software in my life.
The problem I am having at the moment is that Vista update will not install a single update because it hangs and provides an error code "80070643." According to Microsoft, this error code means that there is a problem with the Office Source Engine (ose.exe). There is an in depth knowledge base article on how to repair this problem. However, it sucks when it fails to take into account users who do not have Office installed (i.e., me and quite a few other people).
This is Microsofts only answer to this problem. I have e-mailed their tech support, who promise to respond within a working day with possible solutions. They do respond, but only with a bog standard e-mail to say phone their premium rate support line for more help! Great service!
With a little snooping around on the web, some of the many people with this problem worked out that it was to do with the system clock; if it's out of sync slightly, Vista update will die. Solution; sync the clock with the internet clock over at MS. This worked for a few folk... but not myself.
A few more people with the same problem found that a 3rd party firewall, and possibly the one that shipped with Vista is to blame. Solution; turn it off, or uninstall it. This worked for a few folk... but not myself.
Some other people recommended hiding the update in Vista update. This worked for some... but not me. I don't have the option to hide any updates. It's completely missing - like it never existed ("view available updates" is not listed).
After exhausting all online solutions over the past months, I've hit a brick wall. I'm totally at a loss as to how I can solve this problem. I have reinstalled/ formatted Vista several times, and tried to install updates manually just on the off-chance it will stop being such a useless bloated, slow piece of crap. It hasn't.
Does anyone here have any idea, or suggestions as to how I can get the updates? Microsoft do not want to help, so I'm hoping someone here has a better idea.
My computer hardware remains unchanged since I bought this PC, and it didn't have problems for the first 6 months of use with updates (it's a Dell laptop).
My next step is as I said in the first sentence, whilst switching back to a good MS OS (XP).
I'm about to send my Vista Ultimate CD back to MS encased in a bag of my own bodily filth. I've never used such an unstable and broken piece of software in my life.
The problem I am having at the moment is that Vista update will not install a single update because it hangs and provides an error code "80070643." According to Microsoft, this error code means that there is a problem with the Office Source Engine (ose.exe). There is an in depth knowledge base article on how to repair this problem. However, it sucks when it fails to take into account users who do not have Office installed (i.e., me and quite a few other people).
This is Microsofts only answer to this problem. I have e-mailed their tech support, who promise to respond within a working day with possible solutions. They do respond, but only with a bog standard e-mail to say phone their premium rate support line for more help! Great service!
With a little snooping around on the web, some of the many people with this problem worked out that it was to do with the system clock; if it's out of sync slightly, Vista update will die. Solution; sync the clock with the internet clock over at MS. This worked for a few folk... but not myself.
A few more people with the same problem found that a 3rd party firewall, and possibly the one that shipped with Vista is to blame. Solution; turn it off, or uninstall it. This worked for a few folk... but not myself.
Some other people recommended hiding the update in Vista update. This worked for some... but not me. I don't have the option to hide any updates. It's completely missing - like it never existed ("view available updates" is not listed).
After exhausting all online solutions over the past months, I've hit a brick wall. I'm totally at a loss as to how I can solve this problem. I have reinstalled/ formatted Vista several times, and tried to install updates manually just on the off-chance it will stop being such a useless bloated, slow piece of crap. It hasn't.
Does anyone here have any idea, or suggestions as to how I can get the updates? Microsoft do not want to help, so I'm hoping someone here has a better idea.
My computer hardware remains unchanged since I bought this PC, and it didn't have problems for the first 6 months of use with updates (it's a Dell laptop).
My next step is as I said in the first sentence, whilst switching back to a good MS OS (XP).
.
