23 Jan 2008

Struggling with Vista updates - Vista KB942763 update failure

I have been struggling with any Vista update (i.e. security and regular updates) since some time in December. Does anybody else has similar problems? I get error code 800F0826.
Microsoft provides some information regarding this error, check here - haven't had time yet to go through their solutions though.

Also, loading Vista takes longer than usual and I have a blank screen for a minute before the login screen appears.


-- EDIT --
Apparently, Vista update KB942763 is causing the problem - at least this is the earliest update which failed. I get a different error code for that: 80070643. However, this code seems to refer to some Office update problems - but I don't even have MS Office installed...

I found that this error might be related to the Comodo firewall which I use, see here, however, I' always had Defense+ deactivated, hence at least in my case this can't be the cause of the problem.