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I am running a clean install version of Vista Home Premium.

Whenever I try to use Microsoft Update I get an error message: Can not

check for updates Error code 800FFF. Can someone help me please?

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    <tgoodwin@usermail.com> wrote ...

    >I am running a clean install version of Vista Home Premium.

    > Whenever I try to use Microsoft Update I get an error message: Can not

    > check for updates Error code 800FFF. Can someone help me please?

     

    I don't know what's causing the error but that error is actually 8000FFFF

    (with 8 characters). This is a standard Windows error code "Catastrophic

    failure". It isn't necessarily "catastrophic" it just means that Windows

    Update failed in a way that it wasn't able to provide a more descriptive

    error message.

     

    It isn't one of the common error codes returned by Windows Update these are

    listed at http://support.microsoft.com/ph/6527/

     

    If you don't get a good answer here, you can try asking in

    microsoft.public.windowsupdate -

    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=9581. That group specialises in

    Update problems.

     

    Hope it helps a bit.

    --

    Andrew McLaren

    amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au

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    Thank you very much!

    You are correct the error code is 8000FFFF.

     

     

     

    On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 09:52:33 +1000, "Andrew McLaren"

    <andrew@fakeaddress.com> wrote:

    ><tgoodwin@usermail.com> wrote ...

    >>I am running a clean install version of Vista Home Premium.

    >> Whenever I try to use Microsoft Update I get an error message: Can not

    >> check for updates Error code 800FFF. Can someone help me please?

    >

    >I don't know what's causing the error but that error is actually 8000FFFF

    >(with 8 characters). This is a standard Windows error code "Catastrophic

    >failure". It isn't necessarily "catastrophic" it just means that Windows

    >Update failed in a way that it wasn't able to provide a more descriptive

    >error message.

    >

    >It isn't one of the common error codes returned by Windows Update these are

    >listed at http://support.microsoft.com/ph/6527/

    >

    >If you don't get a good answer here, you can try asking in

    >microsoft.public.windowsupdate -

    >http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=9581. That group specialises in

    >Update problems.

    >

    >Hope it helps a bit.

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