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[Relorian]

Ok so the other day i decided to get off my lazy ass and update windows. I clicked the windows Update icon and... Freeze up. I force closed it and tried doing it manualy. Locked up again. It seems i cannot get to my windows Update at all. Also for some reason my Symantec Real time protection stopped working. I virus scanned it using 3 diffrent scanners and none of them returned anything so it looks like its clear of a virus.



Anyone know what could cause my lock ups?

[barracuda1187]

Maybe your Symantec install is screwed up. Try uninstalling it and see if Windows Update starts working. Then reinstall Symantec (or not).

[Relorian]

What i ended up doing was the following:



I uninstalled Symentec and reinstalled to get it working 100%

I uninstalled my Java platform (it somehow got corrupted)

I Uninstalled and Re Installed IE 6 plus all the updates



and now it works.

[Necrosaro420]

After I updated to xp sp2, norton's would NEVEr autoprotect for me. I hadda go back to sp1

[xyrax]

You won't like this then,



Read about this today,



UPDATE: Time is running out! Please note that the mechanism to temporarily disable delivery of Windows XP SP2 is only available for a period of 240 days (8 months) from August 16, 2004. At the end of this period (after April 12, 2005), Windows XP SP2 will be delivered to all Windows XP and Windows XP Service Pack 1 systems.





like it or not (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2aumng.mspx)