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  Please uninstall and reinstall the ESET program and check if it solves the problem:

  Uninstall or change a program

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/uninstall-or-change-a-program

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• How to speed up the process of updating after clean install

  original title: updates after a clean install

  I just performed a facility clean my machine that runs Vista Home Basic Edition and is now trying to download all the updates it has had over the past three years (ex-factory).

  However it will slowly (no surprise) and I was wondering is there something I could do to speed up the process.  Currently, I am just by clicking on start - Windows Update and let it download what they want from there.  However I have noticed saying she "Download 80 updates", it installs then say 5 of those, restarts and then says "Download 75 updates"-have I really downloaded updates and then lost 80 them, or he really download only 5?

  I also thought the oldest download first, but I can't seem to find an opption to do this - is - it possible?  It seems just stupid for me to download updates of 2010 before those of 2008 (assuming that's what he does lol!)

  All advice or pointers that would help to do that, go a little faster would be immensely appreciated.

  See you soon

  Q

  I just performed a facility clean my machine that runs Vista Home Basic Edition and is now trying to download all the updates it has had over the past three years (ex-factory).

  However it will slowly (no surprise) and I was wondering is there something I could do to speed up the process.  Currently, I am just by clicking on start - Windows Update and let it download what they want from there.  However I have noticed saying she "Download 80 updates", it installs then say 5 of those, restarts and then says "Download 75 updates"-have I really downloaded updates and then lost 80 them, or he really download only 5?

  I also thought the oldest download first, but I can't seem to find an opption to do this - is - it possible?  It seems just stupid for me to download updates of 2010 before those of 2008 (assuming that's what he does lol!)

  All advice or pointers that would help to do that, go a little faster would be immensely appreciated.

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  Start by installing the latest Service Pack (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935791). You'll have so far fewere updtes to install.

  Also note the following regarding your answer to the question of PA Bear "clean install has been through choice. After 3 years machine has become bloated and slow, and I decided to wipe them fresh, start over and give up unused programs that seemed a good idea at the time. » :

  In my view, it is usually a mistake. With a minimum of care, it should never be necessary to reinstall Windows (Vista or any version). I ran Windows 3.0, 3.1, WFWG 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 now, each for the period of time before the next release is out and everyone on two or more machines here. I never reinstalled none of them (with one exception--a problem that I worked on for weeks without success), and I've never had anything more than an occasional minor problem.

  It is my belief that this erroneous notion comes from the technical support people in most of the major OEMs. Their solution to almost any problem, for they know not quickly answer is "reformat and reinstall. It is the ideal solution for them. It gets you phone turned off quickly, it almost always works, and it does not need to do any real troubleshooting (a skill that most of them has obviously not in any great degree).

  But it leaves you with all the work and all the problems. You must restore all backups of your data, you must reinstall all of your programs, you must reinstall all Windows and updates of the application, you must locate and install all the necessary drivers for your system, you will need to recustomize Windows and all your applications to work the way you are comfortable with.

  In addition to all these things being long and painful, you may encounter difficulties with some of them: you will find all your CDs application? You will find all the necessary installation codes? You have data backups to restore? You still remember all the customizations and settings that can be installed to make everything work the way you like it? Sometimes there are problems that are so difficult to resolve that Windows has to be reinstalled properly. But they are few and far between; RESETTLEMENT should not be a substitute for troubleshooting; It should be a last resort, to do that once all other troubleshooting by qualified person attempts have failed.

  And perhaps most important: If you reformat and reinstall without knowing what caused your problem, you will most likely repeat the behavior that caused it and quickly find yourself in exactly the same situation.

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  Please answer all the questions of diagnostic following by number in your very next answer (no need to quote this post):

  1. what application or antivirus security suite is installed and your current subscription?  What anti-spyware (other than Defender) applications?  What third-party firewall (if applicable)?

  2 to give application Norton or McAfee application ever been installed on this computer?

  3. do you have a free trial Norton or a McAfee free trial come preinstalled on the computer when you bought it? (No matter if you have never used or activated).

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  ===================================

  Device Manager and network connections may be blank after you install Windows XP Service Pack 3
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/953791

  Device Manager may not show all devices and network connections may not display network connections after installing Windows XP Service Pack 3
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/953979

  A Windows XP SP3 computer loses wireless connectivity when it returns to sleep or hibernation, or you receive an error message when you try to put the computer to sleep or into hibernation:
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/951447

  Windows XP SP3 on client computers can access the network when some DHCP information are not available
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/953761

  ~ 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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  Diagnostic report (1.9.0027.0):

  -----------------------------------------

  Validation of Windows data-->

  Validation code: 0

  Validation caching Code online: n/a, hr = 0xc004f012

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  Windows Product Key hash: FiWgfb/HBGU plus 7qzKd5NATMcX2iI

  Windows product ID: 00371-OEM-9314963-39295

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  Windows license type: COA SLP

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  Admin: Yes

  TestCab: 0x0

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  Signed by: n/a, hr = 0 x 80070002

  Product name: Windows 7 Professional

  Architecture: 0 x 00000009

  Build lab: 7601.win7sp1_gdr.130828 - 1532

  TTS error:

  Validation of diagnosis:

  Resolution state: n/a

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  Version: N/a, hr = 0 x 80070002

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  Cached result: n/a, hr = 0 x 80070002

  File: No.

  Version: N/a, hr = 0 x 80070002

  WgaTray.exe signed by: n/a, hr = 0 x 80070002

  WgaLogon.dll signed by: n/a, hr = 0 x 80070002

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  Cached result: n/a, hr = 0 x 80070002

  Version: N/a, hr = 0 x 80070002

  OGAExec.exe signed by: n/a, hr = 0 x 80070002

  OGAAddin.dll signed by: n/a, hr = 0 x 80070002

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  Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003 - 100 authentic

  OGA Version: N/a, 0 x 80070002

  Signed by: n/a, hr = 0 x 80070002

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  Default browser: C:\Program Files (x 86) \Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe

  Download signed ActiveX controls: fast

  Download unsigned ActiveX controls: disabled

  Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins: allowed

  Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe: disabled

  Allow the Internet Explorer Webbrowser control scripts: disabled

  Active scripting: allowed

  Recognized ActiveX controls safe for scripting: allowed

  Analysis of file data-->

  [File mismatch: C:\Windows\system32\wat\watadminsvc.exe[Hr = 0 x 80070003]

  [File mismatch: C:\Windows\system32\wat\npwatweb.dll[Hr = 0 x 80070003]

  [File mismatch: C:\Windows\system32\wat\watux.exe[Hr = 0 x 80070003]

  [File mismatch: C:\Windows\system32\wat\watweb.dll[Hr = 0 x 80070003]

  Other data-->

  Office details: {0AC450E6-A3AD-405E-B244-B6074CECBF8A}1.9.0027.06.1.7601.2.00010100.1.0.048x 64*-*-*-*-FC6KT00371-OEM-9314963-392958S-1-5-21-323565687-595391911-2700631585Dell Inc.. Latitude D630 Dell Inc.. A16 20090714000000.000000 + 000DE083907018400FA04090409Mountain Standard Time(GMT-07:00)03DELL M08 100100Microsoft Office Standard Edition 200311qQgWhuDYJMzZ2Ra9gyv5SUkXuJA =70141-051-9705975-560001 960A2760EC8D866

  Content Spsys.log: 0 x 80070002

  License data-->

  The software licensing service version: 6.1.7601.17514

  Name: Windows 7 Professional edition

  Description: operating system Windows - Windows (r) 7, channel OEM_COA_SLP

  Activation ID: da22eadd-46dc-4056-a287-f5041c852470

  ID of the application: 55c92734-d682-4d71-983e-d6ec3f16059f

  Extended PID: 00371-00186-149-639295-02-1033-7601.0000-0102016

  Installation ID: 001986425316033083061411071895367413981866374930874720

  Processor certificate URL: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=88338

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  Use license URL: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=88341

  Product key certificate URL: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=88340

  Partial product key: FC6KT

  License status: licensed

  Remaining Windows rearm count: 3

  Trust time: 25/01/2016 10:58:11

  Windows Activation Technologies-->

  HrOffline: 0x00000000

  HrOnline: n/a

  Beyond: 0 x 0000000000000000

  Event time stamp: n/a

  ActiveX: Not registered - 0 x 80040154

  The admin service: not registered - 0 x 80040154

  Output beyond bitmask:

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  Current HWID hash: NgAAAAEABAABAAIAAAABAAAAAwABAAEA6GGi4iOfPAyIevyQRoOYoLzXkIWCAxbA4Klv5iqF

  Activation 1.0 data OEM-->

  N/A

  Activation 2.0 data OEM-->

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  Windows marker version: 0x0

  OEMID and OEMTableID consistent: Yes

  BIOS information:

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  REFERENCE DELL M08 APIC

  FACP DELL M08

  HPET DELL M08

  MCFG DELL M08

  ASF! REFERENCE DELL M08

  TCPA

  M08 DELL SLIC

  SSDT PmRef CpuPm

  Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

  Firecracker.DWR

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  How to reset the Windows Update components

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/971058

  Suggest you download and save the Fixit. Then configure the system before the clean boot by running:

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  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929135

  Once the Fixit has been downloaded and the system is started in the pure State, check that the native Windows Firewall is now on if a 3rd party firewall has been used previously. Now run the Fixit and choose the default mode. Restart once it's done and see if the system can be connected to the update servers. If he can't, then rerun the Fixit and choose aggressive mode. Turn it back on when he finished the race and updates.

  I suggest before you stop and install the updates, disconnect from the Internet, first.

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• Windows 7 will be not updated after clean install

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  Copy the following line exactly:

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  In comparison, my own computer with Windows Vista SP2 has many applied updates.

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  Charles_W_Davis,
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• Error 0 x 80040154 whe updated after installation installed the update KB915597

  Original title: since kb915597 was installed are not able to update defender and windows

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  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929135

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  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/2509997

  http://support.Microsoft.com/mats/windows_update/

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  Uninstall update KB915597.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/remove-an-update

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  Reset Windows Update components.

  Run the fixit in aggressive mode, restart the computer and then look for the updates.

  http://go.Microsoft.com/?linkid=9665683

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  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/952951
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• Windows says no audio output device after you install windows 8 pro in my desktop computer.

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  After you have installed windows 8 pro in my desktop my windows says no audio output device is installed, I am already updated my audio driver in Device Manager, but its cant work, I'm also controls to restart windows audio in services.msc you please try to help me solve this problem

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