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Forget about the updates. I especially worry about that bad bug in IE that can't be updated now. I use Firefox but she still uses IE. I guess I could force her but what a scene How likely is it that she will be hit by something nasty? I ran two spy checkers Search and Destroy, AdAware that found nothing wrong. All the Dell drivers are up to date including that nasty ATI display driver. Update still fails with "unknown error. Go to Solution. OK, problem solved I calmed down, stuck pins into a couple of Gates and Balmer dolls to relieve the stress, then had a long talk with my girlfriend.

Both legal no sharing my copy and much more stable than Vista could ever hope to be. The laptop comes with a Vista Business disk that I can use as a coaster assuming it can manage even that. We will stay with XP for as long as we possibly can. That puts off a major decision about the OS for at least a few more years. Her cursed Vista Inspiron is being donated to a Linux guy.

I am so disappointed that Windows 7 is based on Vista. Don't they ever learn? View solution in original post. Try looking here. And here. Mis Dos Centavos, Darrell. Helping Dell Customers here since My systems Windows Updates fail to install. Google knows everything; if you just know how to ask.

Unfortunately, Google doesn't know everything! Nothing listed in your links relates to the problem she is having. I already did call up Microsoft, spent forever trying to talk to someone.

Then, they wanted to be paid. Following a bit of animated discussion, they provided the help for free. After having me look at and list seemingly a thousand things, their solution was the one I always hear: reinstall Vista. If I have to go through the trouble and time to reinstall an OS it certainly will not be Vista! I have come to the long-in-waiting conclusion that an OS that tries to be everything to all equipment just isn't possible anymore.

Part of that is the inertia of success on Microsoft's part, the other is the simple fact that there is just too much out there, too many shortcuts being taken with hardware to save money. After years of my ridiculing Apple for their totally proprietary solution, it appears more and more that they have the right idea: control both the hardware and the software. Expensive, but rational. As an aside, Apple should certainly do better than it does considering their control.

I tried this a few minutes agao and found that all but the first one gave me an error message about the file not existing. I vaguely remember something similiar or the same? Like you I too flirted with the idea of switching to Apple. However, after the many years of Windows use and large amounts of time and money spent on Windows apps, I decided my money would go further on the PC side. I did end up buying an iLamp But please don't buy into the notion that just because Apple controls the hardware that they don't have issues on the apple side.

I had an issue about a month or so ago where my iMac wouldn't play DVDs been fine for 5 months of ownership. I jumped online and you wouldn't believe the number of folks that had the same issue.

The fix was to run a utility within Tiger to repair permissions. Sounds like a bogus fix, but wouldn't you know it , it worked. Bottom line, I think both OSs are complex and just because one controls the hardware and the other doesn't, really doesn't point to less problems. Both have issues. Oh, don't worry! I'm not one of those mindless Mac fanatics who believe that everything Apple is perfect.

I love their "The problem does not exist" approach On the other hand, their service is superb. Walk into an Apple store there is one about 25 miles from here and someone will figure out what's going on.

Click the Advanced tab, and then click Environment Variables. In the System variables section, click to select Path , and then click Edit. Add the following text at the end of the Variable value text box:. Click Start , and then click Start Search. In the Programs list, right-click Cmd. The Winmgmt command checks the WMI repository for consistency and repairs any errors that are found. If the following text is displayed in the command prompt, then no errors were found. WMI repository is consistent.

If the problem is not resolved, you might want to contact support. Possible causes for this problem This problem occurs for one of the following reasons:. Similar problems and solutions For more information about errors that you may encounter when you install Windows Vista Service Pack 1, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:.

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