"Everything after Vista upgrade too wide!" wrote
> Unfortunately, individual installation via KB all fail too.
> Interestingly,
> An unrelated download (French Support) installed fine from Windows
> Update....
> just these 9 won't install. Thanks anyway. Peter.
>
> "Rock" wrote:
>
>> "Everything after Vista upgrade too wide!" wrote
>>
>> > VERY HELPFUL, thank you Rock from a hotel room in Berlin. Since I
>> > posted,
>> > I've solved the Flash issue. A person on the Community told me to NOT
>> > download the regular Flash player from the regular Flash site, but this
>> > special one: install_flash_player_active_x.msi I'll try your manual
>> > downloads idea now and I'll search further for the Fat Faces issue ....
>> > what
>> > do you think it might have been called? Or which section of the
>> > Community
>> > do
>> > you think it might have been in? Anyway, thank you!
>> >
>> > "Rock" wrote:
>> >
>> >> "Everything after Vista upgrade too wide!" wrote
>> >>
>> >> > Truly, I'm frustrated here in a hotel room in Berlin. I upgraded
>> >> > from
>> >> > XP
>> >> > to
>> >> > Vista Ultimate. I get Error 80070643 when I try to install updates.
>> >> > At
>> >> > the
>> >> > help button, it says I need to enable the OSE Engine. At the top of
>> >> > that
>> >> > page, it says set it to Manual. In the middle of the same page it
>> >> > says
>> >> > set
>> >> > it to "Automatic with delay". So I tried both. Still, none of the
>> >> > 9
>> >> > updates
>> >> > waiting to be installed will do so; they all fail. Truly, if an
>> >> > automobile
>> >> > was as counter-intuitive to drive as this software, we'd all crash
>> >> > into
>> >> > walls. And furthermore, every human face on my laptop is now
>> >> > stretched
>> >> > sideways and thus fat! And the help and KB for that one doesn't fix
>> >> > it
>> >> > either! Finally, Flash 9.0 is properly on this computer but somehow
>> >> > blocked
>> >> > from opening by Vista. And the Help and KB for THAT don't resolve
>> >> > the
>> >> > issue
>> >> > either! Thanks to any kind soul who can help solve any of these:
>> >> > I've
>> >> > only
>> >> > a Masters in English, so I'm not up to the challenge alone....
>> >>
>> >> Can you manually download the updates and install. Right click on
>> >> each
>> >> update, View details, click on the support link, find the download
>> >> link,
>> >> download the file, and execute it from the desktop.
>> >>
>> >> For flash there is an installer on the Adobe site. You might want to
>> >> run
>> >> it
>> >> again. I don't have the link to it, sorry, but check some of the
>> >> posts
>> >> in
>> >> these Vista newsgroups for one about Adobe by Carey Frisch. The link
>> >> is
>> >> in
>> >> it.
>> >>
>> >> There was also a recent post about dealing with the FAT faces. Sorry
>> >> I
>> >> don't have a link to that either.
>>
>> You're welcome. Sorry I just don't remember. I think it would have been
>> in
>> vista.general or vista.installation_setup. I read a reply to one thread
>> yesterday I think.
Ok Peter sorry that didn't work. I suggest at this point you post the
update problem to the experts in the Windows Update newsgroup to see if
anyone there has any ideas. Be sure to give the specific errors.
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...&lang=en&cr=us
--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]
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