- May 23, 2002
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Not sure if this is virus related or a corrupted file or what but here's the problem.
My neighbor has Windows XP on their PC. THey've been having problems lately so I went to take a look at it. Web browsing was sluggish so I dumped the cache (which took like 5 minutes) and that helped.
Went to Windows Update and it had almost 40 critical updates to download. Yikes. Attempted to download them and what happens is we get as far as the window where it starts to download, and it hangs forever. Never gets that far.
So, went to Microsoft.com to download IE6 SP1 (they had 6 with no SP), ran the setup, got to the point where it downloads the 12 megs of info, and again, it hangs forever.
So, I installed Spybot to get rid of lots of the crap on the PC. Spybot runs fine but when I try to download updates, well guess what, it hangs forever and eventually fails to download the updates.
Most things work except when they seems to involve downloading updates or installers.
Any idea what the heck would be causing this?
ALSO, when the pC boots up they get 2 errors. One is that MMTASK.EXE can't run beacuse MMVCP70.DLL is missing. Turns out this is a musicmatch thing so I'm not worried about it. But, they also get a pop up thatthere's a problem with TFTP2576 and what should it do. It looks like this is a problem with a security risk in Windows, but the Microsoft Knowledge base is down right nwo so I can't verify that.
Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks!
My neighbor has Windows XP on their PC. THey've been having problems lately so I went to take a look at it. Web browsing was sluggish so I dumped the cache (which took like 5 minutes) and that helped.
Went to Windows Update and it had almost 40 critical updates to download. Yikes. Attempted to download them and what happens is we get as far as the window where it starts to download, and it hangs forever. Never gets that far.
So, went to Microsoft.com to download IE6 SP1 (they had 6 with no SP), ran the setup, got to the point where it downloads the 12 megs of info, and again, it hangs forever.
So, I installed Spybot to get rid of lots of the crap on the PC. Spybot runs fine but when I try to download updates, well guess what, it hangs forever and eventually fails to download the updates.
Most things work except when they seems to involve downloading updates or installers.
Any idea what the heck would be causing this?
ALSO, when the pC boots up they get 2 errors. One is that MMTASK.EXE can't run beacuse MMVCP70.DLL is missing. Turns out this is a musicmatch thing so I'm not worried about it. But, they also get a pop up thatthere's a problem with TFTP2576 and what should it do. It looks like this is a problem with a security risk in Windows, but the Microsoft Knowledge base is down right nwo so I can't verify that.
Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks!