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by borg7of9

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I have been trying to run windows update for a few days now, and on one win98 system, it will not work. It finds 8 critical updates, and says it had a problem with drivers updates, from there, I can not continue the update process.

Now, this system is always up to date with Norton, so I do not suspect a virus at this time, but I have no idea what to do. Just as a note, I can not also acess hotmail from this system either. Any ideas?

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by otl

Try running only one of the updates at a time. May be that one of them is required for the other to work.

by w2ktechman

First try rolling IE back to a different state (uninstall). This may take care of your problem, I have seen this work on many wierd IE problems.
Then reinstall IE (if it is out of date) and try again

by pierrejamme

I have found that updating to the latest windows Scripting helps. if you click on the Troubleshooting Link on the left of Windows Update you should find a link.

by devinefv

Assuming the system is running well. Make sure no programs arerunning. Disable sceen saver, Suspend/unload scheduler. Virus protection/Firewalls may need to be paused or disable too. Is PCillin running at the Cmos level? After all these things are checkedand done, the service pack upgrades should execute. There are two service packs that need to run by them selves. Good luck!

by borg7of9

OK, first, I cant install one update at a time, because as explained, once it finds the updates, I can not proceed from there.

I looked into windows scripting, and that link provided no help

The system is a win98 so its not easy to Roll Back IE, if so tell me how?

This system was performing updates without problems for a year now, so I doubt settings such as firewall, would be an issue, but I tried to no avail. Also I always perform updates with no other programs running, the same as with any install

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