Can't do a Windows Update

[SimpleSi]

Starting at beginning ....

Teacher XP laptop returned to me as was infected with alsorts of stuff.

 

It still had orig ghost image on its D drive so I restored it to my orig deployment setting.

 

Decided it would be good idea to load defender on before handing back this time - did WGA - did Defender install - borked on needing Windows Update 3.1 installing.

 

Went onto IE -Tools -Windows Update - ended up with a web page telling me to upgrade to IE6 !!!

 

Thought - never mind - I'll load in SP2 from my utility CD - did that - still thinks I have IE5.

 

Downloaded IE7 - installed - ran - still thinks I've got IE5

 

Any ideas people?

 

regards

Simon

PS Not at laptop again till next week but any suggestions welcome in meantime

 

PPS - tried another machine to make sure it wasn't something to do with school I'm at - it went onto Windows Update fine.

[john]

Has it had its version number set to something else by Group Policy? I've had this recently in that IE7 seemed to modify some GP settings the I didnt read and instead of providing a user tag on your browser string it now modifies the version data in the string, as a result Win Update fails as does a new webmail system.

[SimpleSi]

Its a standalone laptop - no domain involved.

 

But did you manage to cure yours by altering anything?

 

regards

 

Simon

[pooley]

Re install windows update.

 

unzip and right click iuctl.inf to install (with IE closed)

 

then try windows update again.

[john]

@simon, yeah on mine as soon as I tried it on a laptop that had no GPs on it I knew it had to be a GP thing really, but if yours is not on GP then I don't think in this case that is your problem