Comments for The Unimportant Observer http://unimportantobserver.wordpress.com Some ideas to chew on... Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:41:20 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Windows Update problem after Windows XP SP3 by Fascist Nation http://unimportantobserver.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/windows-update-problem-after-windows-xp-sp3/#comment-62 Fascist Nation Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:41:20 +0000 http://unimportantobserver.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-62 http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-9218-sp3-stopped-windows-update-working Problem: Installed the official SP3 on a clean installation before programs. It immediately stopped the Windows update site from working any further - any attempted installations failed, so I couldn't update Office etc after loading them. Did a system restore to remove SP3 and all was fine again. Any thoughts? [note this can be traced to a silent update of Windows Update from Microsoft predating SP3 that failed to register, leaving many in the lurch. Apparently Microsoft failed to make the same frigging adjustment in the script to register it when they created SP3. So I am guessing if you install SP3 on a currently undated system it works fine, but a new clean install and bammo, 'thank you Microsoft!'] Cause & Solution: from Ziggy: I had the same problem, but I eventually found a solution. Windows XP Service Pack 3 installs a new version of Windows Update, but it forgets to register it. try the following: Log on as an administrator, and run cmd.exe, and issue the following commands: > net stop wuauserv > cd\windows\system32 > regsvr32 wups2.dll > net start wuauserv and try again. http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-9218-sp3-stopped-windows-update-working

Problem:

Installed the official SP3 on a clean installation before programs. It immediately stopped the Windows update site from working any further – any attempted installations failed, so I couldn’t update Office etc after loading them. Did a system restore to remove SP3 and all was fine again. Any thoughts? [note this can be traced to a silent update of Windows Update from Microsoft predating SP3 that failed to register, leaving many in the lurch. Apparently Microsoft failed to make the same frigging adjustment in the script to register it when they created SP3. So I am guessing if you install SP3 on a currently undated system it works fine, but a new clean install and bammo, 'thank you Microsoft!']

Cause & Solution:

from Ziggy:

I had the same problem, but I eventually found a solution.

Windows XP Service Pack 3 installs a new version of Windows Update, but it forgets to register it.

try the following:

Log on as an administrator, and run cmd.exe, and issue the following commands:

> net stop wuauserv

> cd\windows\system32

> regsvr32 wups2.dll

> net start wuauserv

and try again.

]]> Comment on Windows Update problem after Windows XP SP3 by Thomas W. Eaton http://unimportantobserver.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/windows-update-problem-after-windows-xp-sp3/#comment-61 Thomas W. Eaton Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:16:45 +0000 http://unimportantobserver.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-61 I typicaly go streight to Microsoft search when I am looking for answers to issues like this. I have just become so frustrated with all the bogus sites trying to sell me something. It realy makes my job hard, unfortunately Microsoft can be just as frustrating. I greatly appreciate it when I can find just the information I am looking for and not unending pages of useless information. I can't be sure how much help this link was just yet but I just wanted to say thanks for being streight forward and to the point. Tom I typicaly go streight to Microsoft search when I am looking for answers to issues like this. I have just become so frustrated with all the bogus sites trying to sell me something. It realy makes my job hard, unfortunately Microsoft can be just as frustrating. I greatly appreciate it when I can find just the information I am looking for and not unending pages of useless information. I can’t be sure how much help this link was just yet but I just wanted to say thanks for being streight forward and to the point.

Tom

]]> Comment on Windows Update problem after Windows XP SP3 by 3SSS http://unimportantobserver.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/windows-update-problem-after-windows-xp-sp3/#comment-59 3SSS Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:31:09 +0000 http://unimportantobserver.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-59 Thank you so much mate :) The first method worked fine for me :P:P Thank you so much mate :)

The first method worked fine for me :P :P

]]> Comment on Laws are blunt instruments; they always bring unintended consequences. by Nail http://unimportantobserver.wordpress.com/2007/04/15/laws-are-blunt-instruments-they-always-bring-unintended-consequences/#comment-53 Nail Fri, 02 May 2008 14:50:48 +0000 http://unimportantobserver.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/laws-are-blunt-instruments-they-always-bring-unintended-consequences/#comment-53 Recent events provide an great example of a corollary to the unintended consequences referred to above. Alternative fuels have been heavily emphasized and subsidized over the last number of years. Yet now, as of spring 2008, world food prices, especially for grains, are skyrocketing. While there are multiple reasons for this, there appears to be pretty solid consensus that the demand for corn for biofuel is at least a significant portion of this price rise. (See <a href="http://www.news.com/8301-11128_3-9918741-54.html" rel="nofollow">this link</a>.) Clearly, politicians were not focusing on this possibility when proposing legislation that would incentivize biofuel production; they were instead simply trying to garner benefit for their farm state constituents. Yet this clearly shows that injecting incentive into the market system produces unanticipated reactions. While this example has to do with market reaction, and the original post has to do with the interpretation of statute language, they both illustrate the imprecision and unpredictability of legislation. Recent events provide an great example of a corollary to the unintended consequences referred to above. Alternative fuels have been heavily emphasized and subsidized over the last number of years. Yet now, as of spring 2008, world food prices, especially for grains, are skyrocketing. While there are multiple reasons for this, there appears to be pretty solid consensus that the demand for corn for biofuel is at least a significant portion of this price rise. (See this link.)
Clearly, politicians were not focusing on this possibility when proposing legislation that would incentivize biofuel production; they were instead simply trying to garner benefit for their farm state constituents. Yet this clearly shows that injecting incentive into the market system produces unanticipated reactions. While this example has to do with market reaction, and the original post has to do with the interpretation of statute language, they both illustrate the imprecision and unpredictability of legislation.

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