Error codes: 80072EFE, 80240038, 8024402F & 0X8002801C (cannot install updates)

Having this problem with windows update for a month now, 2 years without problem even after uninstall of numbers and install last Toshiba out of the box, last mth recovery due to virous, completed programs, WUpdate worked for an hour, then started giving me all this error codes whenever I click Update. So what's the problem? Try all your suggestions on this forum of people with the same problem, and none worked for me. At soon Hen

I assume you are using Spyware Doctor with Antivirus.

Applications, (Norton and McAfee) are known to not uninstall (or upgraded) themselves.

1. download the Norton Removal Tool, save it to your desktop: ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/removal_tools/Norton_Removal_Tool.exe

2. close all open applications (that is, anything with an icon on the taskbar).

3. click right on the file saved in #1 above, and then select run as administrator to run the utility. DO TAP not your keyboard until the race ends, then restart.

4. open Internet Explorer (only) to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923737 & run the difficulty.

5. open Internet Explorer (only) to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971058 & run it in DEFAULT and modes difficulty then AGGRESSIVE. [1]

6. restart a last time & test.

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[1] full Disclosure: the difficulty operating in AGGRESSIVE mode will remove your update history but not the list of installed updates.

~ Robear Dyer (PA Bear) ~ MS MVP (that is to say, mail, security, Windows & Update Services) since 2002 ~ WARNING: MS MVPs represent or work for Microsoft

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