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Thread ID: 127746 2012-11-11 01:02:00 Windows update problem QW. (15883) Press F1
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1311838 2012-11-11 22:45:00 So whose IP 's were there originally, in other words which ISP is blocking windows updates ?

I'm with Telecom.
sk69ersnz (13476)
1311839 2012-11-12 00:03:00 There were no ips under the wireless connection. It was on auto. I left the top 1/2 on auto. And put in Google's ip addresses for the DNS server ips Speedy Gonzales (78)
1311840 2012-11-12 00:06:00 Updated successfully.Thanks again Speedy.

Sweet :) QW install teamviewer then send me the ID and password it gives you to me in a PM. And I'll do what I did on Sk69's PC. We'll see if it works
Speedy Gonzales (78)
1311841 2012-11-12 00:14:00 Nice to know how/why the DNS mod works. linw (53)
1311842 2012-11-12 00:18:00 It sounds like an ip / DNS prob somewhere. Like something didnt get resolved. And thats what was causing WU to bring up that error. I added the 3 MS sites to IE's trusted sites as well. But, I dont thinik that did anything. Because, it brought up the same error after I had added them. WU didn't work, until I changed the DNS server ips from auto, to Google's ip addresses. Speedy Gonzales (78)
1311843 2012-11-12 00:47:00 Sure is weird. My son seems to have a similar problem which he thinks is related to Office 10 updates. I have pointed him to your solution, Speedy, so will report back when he tries it. linw (53)
1311844 2012-11-12 01:01:00 Ok I managed to fix Sk69's prob. I changed the DNS server ip's under the network connection to Google's DNS server ip's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. I did what I posted in Post #11.

Just tried this and so far it is still checking for updates. No error has appeared.
QW. (15883)
1311845 2012-11-12 01:03:00 Good the longer it takes to check for updates, the more chance of it working. Its when it takes less than 1-2 minutes, yoiu know its going to fail with an error Speedy Gonzales (78)
1311846 2012-11-12 01:07:00 Sure is weird. My son seems to have a similar problem which he thinks is related to Office 10 updates. I have pointed him to your solution, Speedy, so will report back when he tries it.

If it comes up with an error, post it here.
Speedy Gonzales (78)
1311847 2012-11-12 01:52:00 Well it seems that using the google DNS settings has done the trick. I was to install 15 important updates plus 5 optional and had no problems at all.

Thanks Speedy for your help.
QW. (15883)
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