Recent content by canu49

Actually, Windows Defender is running in addition to Mcafee ( Mcafee seems to be controling both). Also, some ARE starting to get through. Six of the first nine installed, and the unimportant updates are going through. I'll try the fix.

Didn't work. Question is now, how long can I function without updates. Are they even necessary? Probably can't use Windows Essentials without them. Maybe the problem will go away when mcafee goes.

That worked. I've deleted the folder, rebooted and turned windows update back on. I'll give it a couple of days and see if that fixed it. Thanks for your help.

tried to delete "software" folder but get a "can't delete because it's running somewhere else" prompt. I turned off update and Mcafee wirewall. What did I miss?

is this it?

Here's the file

nothing there. the activeX updates go through, but nothing else. I'm stumped. Might be mcafee after all.

did that, no help. I'm going to run the MS system update tool and see if that helps.

I plan to soon as my subscription runs out. Updates had been running smooth until a couple of months age. Right after the activeX update ( KB2618451) the problem started.

Thanks. I am running mcAfee, but tried turning off the firewall to no avail. The problem started in Dec. prior to that time updates were 100% successful. I uninstalled the last successful update ( something to do with ActiveX kill bits) thinking it may have caused it but the problem persist. I...

I'm running Windows 7 64 bit on a dell laptop ( which is wireless) About 95% of my automatic updates fail with the code "800B0100" tried the "fix it" from MS, no luck. I try to download the "system rediness update tool" from MS but keep getting a page not found prompt. I turned off the windows...