cmendla - 6:51 pm on Sep 14, 2007 (gmt 0)

I have a computer with a weird problem. It's brand new, running, xp home.

I ran the manual window updates. It seemed to run ok the first time. However, when I go to MS update now, it runs really slow.

If I go to another machine, (xp home) MS update runs OK.

If I look at the error message that comes up, it says something about an unterminated string.

The other odd thing is that I was trying to search the MS knowledge base. That seemed slow on the new machine but not on the old machines.

I dont' see anything relevant in the event viewer

I'd appreciate any thoughts.

Oh, I also tried re-registering a bunch of dlls and tried to get the win update activex to reload.

thanks

cg