XP Windows Media Center - No Defender or IE-7

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May 12th, 2008, 08:41 PM
Le Boule

XP Windows Media Center - No Defender or IE-7

Friend from out of town has contacted me re problems he is having after setting up a refurbished Gateway. He took all the extra crap off and said computer runs just fine. When he got the critical updates SP3 was the first one up so he installed it. All went well it seemed. Also installed Windows Defender with no problems but it won't update; uninstalled and installed it three times but to no avail...still will not update. :confused: Also tried several times to upgrade IE6 to IE7 but after a few seconds it just throws up a message that it's not able to perform the update. :eek:

I frankly do not know where to tell him to start. :o

Anybody got any ideas?

Gateway GT5014 with XP Windows Media Center 2005

2.8 Pentium D with 3 GB RAM

Thanks...
May 12th, 2008, 10:44 PM
Broni

Did he install all other updates, or just SP3?
May 12th, 2008, 10:49 PM
Le Boule

SP3 plus several other updates not covered by SP3...
May 12th, 2008, 10:51 PM
Broni

Exact error messages may be helpful.
May 13th, 2008, 02:17 AM
Train

Was SP2 installed before SP3?
May 13th, 2008, 05:37 PM
Le Boule

Error on Windows Defender was 0x80004002. No error number on the IE-7 update failure.

I'm waiting for further info re service packs... :confused:
May 13th, 2008, 06:26 PM
Train

May just have to try several times.

Interesting thread on that error with several possible fixes.
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...fb725086bb&p=1
May 13th, 2008, 07:05 PM
Broni

...

Quote:

Exact error messages may be helpful.
May 13th, 2008, 07:38 PM
Le Boule

Will pass this on and try to obtain further info.

Thanks for the help, Broni and Train...
May 14th, 2008, 08:48 AM
Le Boule

SP-2 was installed upon receipt of "refurbished" computer, Train.

Owner of computer said other than the IE-7 and Defender problem the computer seems to run fine.

He advised thanks for our efforts but to tell the members of this forum that he was going to say the heck with it and just use Firefox and would use other antispyware and not worry about Windows Defender.

Guess we can mark this thread as cancelled or resolved - however it should be phrased.

Thanks... :)
May 14th, 2008, 01:49 PM
Train

Xp with IE 6 and Firefox is a good move in my book.

IE 7 was designed for Vista and for some of us, it just messes up in XP.
May 14th, 2008, 08:55 PM
Broni

I wish, I had a computer without IE....hehehehe
May 15th, 2008, 11:33 AM
Le Boule

Broni,

I'm sure you can afford a Mac!

:D :p