[melange86]

I uninstalled IE and re-installed it with the link you provided, but I still am unable to open Windows Update. I got the same error message again. I was trying to press on the Windows Update link in my Control Panel and it wasn't working, but if I click on Windows Update in my "All Programs" it opened Internet Explorer and went to windowsupdate.microsoft.com -- so it appears to be working, just not through the Control Panel. Is this a problem? Because I rarely use IE, anyway, and if I can still check for updates through the website, then it shouldn't be a problem, should I? I don't need to fix this "null" issue if it's not really a big deal. What do you think?

Edited by melange86, 23 May 2009 - 04:30 PM.

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Hi

Let's try following.


Open notepad and then copy and paste the bolded lines below into it. Go to File > save as and name the file fixes.bat, change the Save as type to all files and save it to your desktop.
@echo off
c:
cd\
dir /a /s wuaucpl.cpl >c:\locations.txt
regedit /a c:\regExport.txt "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\Extended Properties"
Double-click on fixes.bat file to execute it. Please post back the contents of c:\locations.txt and c:\regExport.txt files.

[Blade81]

Hi

Let's try following.


Open notepad and then copy and paste the bolded lines below into it. Go to File > save as and name the file fixes.bat, change the Save as type to all files and save it to your desktop.
@echo off
c:
cd\
dir /a /s wuaucpl.cpl >c:\locations.txt
regedit /a c:\regExport.txt "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\Extended Properties"
Double-click on fixes.bat file to execute it. Please post back the contents of c:\locations.txt and c:\regExport.txt files.

[melange86]

Here are the 2 logs:

Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is F433-2303

Directory of C:\i386

05/26/2005 04:16 AM 174,360 wuaucpl.cpl
1 File(s) 174,360 bytes

Directory of C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download\dd9ab5193501484cf5e6884fa1d22f9e

04/13/2008 08:12 PM 162,304 wuaucpl.cpl
1 File(s) 162,304 bytes

Directory of C:\WINDOWS\system32

10/16/2008 03:12 PM 213,528 wuaucpl.cpl
1 File(s) 213,528 bytes

Directory of C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache

10/16/2008 03:12 PM 213,528 wuaucpl.cpl
1 File(s) 213,528 bytes

Total Files Listed:
4 File(s) 763,720 bytes
0 Dir(s) 11,884,507,136 bytes free


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REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\Extended Properties]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\Extended Properties\{305CA226-D286-468e-B848-2B2E8E697B74} 2]
"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\Firewall.cpl"="3,10"
"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\wscui.cpl"=dword:ffffffff
"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\NetSetup.cpl"=dword:00000003
"C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Microsoft Shared\\Speech\\sapi.cpl"=dword:00000004
"%SystemRoot%\\System32\\wuaucpl.cpl"=dword:0000000a
"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\appwiz.cpl"=dword:00000008
"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\access.cpl"=dword:00000007
"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\bthprops.cpl"="2,3"
"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\desk.cpl"=dword:00000001
"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\hdwwiz.cpl"=dword:ffffffff
"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\inetcpl.cpl"="3,10"
"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\intl.cpl"=dword:00000006
"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\irprops.cpl"=dword:00000002
"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\joy.cpl"=dword:00000002
"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\main.cpl"=dword:00000002
"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\mmsys.cpl"=dword:00000004
"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\ncpa.cpl"=dword:00000003
"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\nwc.cpl"=dword:00000000
"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\nusrmgr.cpl"=dword:00000009
"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\odbccp32.cpl"=dword:00000000
"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\powercfg.cpl"=dword:00000005
"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\sticpl.cpl"=dword:00000002
"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\sysdm.cpl"="5"
"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\telephon.cpl"=dword:00000002
"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\timedate.cpl"=dword:00000006
@=""
"%SystemRoot%\\system32\\isuspm.cpl"=dword:00000000
"C:\\PROGRA~1\\Avira\\ANTIVI~1\\avconfig.cpl"=dword:0000000a

[Blade81]

Nothing seems to be out of ordinary there. Please uninstall IE 8. That will leave you with IE 7. See how the system behaves with it.

[Blade81]

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