Verschlimmbesserung ...
Jun. 11th, 2010 08:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inanedirkThat's just so very typical.
I tried installing windows updates this morning, but to my surprise I found a message stating that an unknown error had occured and some updates couldn't be completed.
Googling the error code yielded some results, but most of them applied to Vista, or 32bit versions, or something. Anyway, the recommended action to take was to delete a corrupted file (some mafia quote comes to mind), reboot and re-run windowsupdate.
The particular file doesn't exist on my system though.
Someone else suggested using system restore to get to a point before the file got corrupted. In my case though, restoring to a point one week ago resulted in a black desktop with only the mouse cursor visible. I don't recall my desktop being in this particular state one week ago.
Fortunately I've managed to undo the restore operation, so now I'm back to only being unable to install windows updates.
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Not that those are important or anything ...
I tried installing windows updates this morning, but to my surprise I found a message stating that an unknown error had occured and some updates couldn't be completed.
Googling the error code yielded some results, but most of them applied to Vista, or 32bit versions, or something. Anyway, the recommended action to take was to delete a corrupted file (some mafia quote comes to mind), reboot and re-run windowsupdate.
The particular file doesn't exist on my system though.
Someone else suggested using system restore to get to a point before the file got corrupted. In my case though, restoring to a point one week ago resulted in a black desktop with only the mouse cursor visible. I don't recall my desktop being in this particular state one week ago.
Fortunately I've managed to undo the restore operation, so now I'm back to only being unable to install windows updates.
...
Not that those are important or anything ...
