...and other woes.
OK, this is Windows XP Pro corporate, originally with SP3. I started with IE7. The build dates back to about December last year and has updated (manually) correctly up until the end of last month. Then first of all it simply wouldn't find updates that it should - it would claim there weren't any, whereas another machine with identical set up would find them.
Then, starting about a week ago, any attempt to start Windows Update would result in IE7 crashing - there would be a standard M$ error and once that was acknowledged, IE was gone. The error pointed at urlmon.dll. Sometimes there was no error, just the crash.
This is the ONLY page which does this, and it occurs no matter how I get to it: if I go to the M$ site and then navigate there, the same thing happens.
If I use Firefox and the extensions which allow me to use that to get the Updates, the updates are correctly identified and downloaded, but do not install.
The following do not work:
Uninstalling IE7 to revert to IE6
Re-installing IE7
Uninstalling SP3 and IE7
Re-installing SP3
Reinstalling IE7
Most of the fixes I've found on t'web of situations even close to this.
Next up is a complete re-install of Windows, but as have better things to spend two hours of my life on, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas?
Cheers
M
OK, this is Windows XP Pro corporate, originally with SP3. I started with IE7. The build dates back to about December last year and has updated (manually) correctly up until the end of last month. Then first of all it simply wouldn't find updates that it should - it would claim there weren't any, whereas another machine with identical set up would find them.
Then, starting about a week ago, any attempt to start Windows Update would result in IE7 crashing - there would be a standard M$ error and once that was acknowledged, IE was gone. The error pointed at urlmon.dll. Sometimes there was no error, just the crash.
This is the ONLY page which does this, and it occurs no matter how I get to it: if I go to the M$ site and then navigate there, the same thing happens.
If I use Firefox and the extensions which allow me to use that to get the Updates, the updates are correctly identified and downloaded, but do not install.
The following do not work:
Uninstalling IE7 to revert to IE6
Re-installing IE7
Uninstalling SP3 and IE7
Re-installing SP3
Reinstalling IE7
Most of the fixes I've found on t'web of situations even close to this.
Next up is a complete re-install of Windows, but as have better things to spend two hours of my life on, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas?
Cheers
M
