Windows Update Screen Blank

[Guest]

For the life of me I can't figure out what happened. For the last week or so,
my Windows Update screen inside of Vista Home Premium is blank. I can see the
outline of the "Your System Is Up-To-Date" box, but I can see no words in
either the main portion of the screen nor in the left-hand navigation. I can
see the refresh and help icons, but there is zero text anywhere. The other
day, I had a pending update to download and I could see the button to
download the latest updates, but again, no text. This appears to be the only
screen where this is happening. Any suggestions to get the 'old' windows
update screen back?

Thanks,

Matt

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

How to troubleshoot Windows Update, Microsoft Update,
and Windows Server Update Services installation issues:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906602

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User

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For the life of me I can't figure out what happened. For the last week or so,
my Windows Update screen inside of Vista Home Premium is blank. I can see the
outline of the "Your System Is Up-To-Date" box, but I can see no words in
either the main portion of the screen nor in the left-hand navigation. I can
see the refresh and help icons, but there is zero text anywhere. The other
day, I had a pending update to download and I could see the button to
download the latest updates, but again, no text. This appears to be the only
screen where this is happening. Any suggestions to get the 'old' windows
update screen back?

Thanks,

Matt

 

[Guest]

None of these suggestions helped. As I mentioned, the UI inside of Vista is
corrupted/blank. Updates appear to install fine (if they are automatically
installed), but if I go to Control Panel>Windows Update the resulting screen
is totally without text.

 

[Guest]

I have the same issue. Windows Vista (all versions) do not use a browser for
windows updates. This is all part of a GUI built into Vista now. When I open
WinUpdates, I also get a blank screen with just the outline of the progress
bar, the refresh Icon(which does nothing) and the help icon which has no help
for this issue. I have looked at previous posts and it seems that everyone
that replies thinks that it has something to do with IE, but Vist does not
use IE interface for updates anymore. Please help. It would be nice to be
able to upload a screenshot.

 

[Ian]

Why try to use a browser when you can set update through the control panel
update icon.

Vista is a new system. Best try to use its new system that to wish it was
like XP all the time.

 

[Guest]

I don't care how the updates are done, I would just like to get them done and
SEE them getting done. Right now there is NO text in the Update application
that is done through the control panel in Windows Vista Home Premium.

 

[Ian]

But its better than XP. I can see the history of my updates, what updates
are available and click to get them, all there in view. Why would I need to
SEE them on the way?

 

[Guest]

Ok. This is off the whole problem issue. I don't need to see them coming but
I would like to be able to see what updates are available, installed and if
any failed to install. Currently I can't see any of that. Does anyone have
any idea why this may be happening?