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by sdoherty82

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I formatted my computer on sunday and reinstalled windows successfully - however i haven't been able to use windows update since i attempted to install windows defender. Symptoms are internet explorer 7 comes up with an error message that it has to close. Im wondering what i have to do to fix this issue as i really want to install windows internet explorer 7 again as i like it better than IE 6. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

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by Former member

Hi sdoherty,
I think you will need to go into add and remove and delete "windows defender". Until you have all the updates do not load "windows defender". Have you applied windows service pack 2.?.
If you can, just have ie6 down load the updates then apply ie7, you are in for a long wait with all the updates. I have solved all the problems you face with a neat backup system comprising four cloned harddrives. These are always checked twice weekly for bootup problems to uummm updates.
Hope all goes well.

by sdoherty82

HI,

Thanks i have already tried uninstalling windows defender and it didn't achieve anything. I ended up reinstalling windows and then got a new error message while trying to use windows updates. I found some very helpful forums around that helped me but as soon as i tried to upgrade to Microsoft Update (that includes office as well) i ended up having the same problem. My windoows CD already contains service pack 2. I was wondering if there is a way that i can back up my updates - i haven't found a way to do it.
Any thoughts are appreciated.
Thanks

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