Elliot77

I am using Microsoft Update, and yes, I am now showing no available high-priority updates. wuweb 7.6.7600.257 muweb 7.6.7600.257 legitcheck 1.9.42.0

Oh please, you've been super helpful - thank you! I hid KB2934207, but do not see KB905474 (this is post a prerequisite .net 3.5 SP1 update, so perhaps that has something to do with it).

After getting kind of caught up trying to get dencorso's post #13 rec to work, I neglected to go ahead and try his rec in post #14, which is working. dencorso, as far as hiding the 2 updates you had me install (MS IE8 Cumulative Update (KB2936068), and the last official out-of-band update for IE8 (KB2964358)), they do not come up as options. Just thought I'd mention this.

The folder was primarily files from a Bitdefender install. Cleared them out, made sure to run CMD as admin, and I'm still getting the same result. I've always had avast (tried BD recently), run regular boot-time scans, etc. and have no detected malware.

Both TEMP and TMP are located here: c:\docume~1\<user name>\locals~1\Temp That Temp folder is 59MB

Pardon my lack of knowledge, but I'm not sure how to execute what you've requested here; I'm lost on type set & whence variables point. Yes, I'm logged in as Admin, & my system partition has ~10GB of free space.

WUA-Downlevel.exe is the exact size you stated, and the signature date is identical; the time is 4:56:45 pm (Arizona).

thank you for your help

Carefully noted and followed. I received the same "Extraction Failed" message. I'm slightly unclear on this: in DOS, should I simply navigate to the folder (ARAGUARY) and enter the command? or should I be navigating to WUA-Downlevel.exe within DOS, and then doing the command?

I had unregistered vgx.dll (but have now re-registered it). I extracted WUA-Downlevel.exe to a temp folder, navigated to that folder in dos, then ran the command. I received an "extraction failed - the directory or file cannot be created." message (I realize I may have made a beginner's error somewhere here).

Completed, but no dice (same loop as mentioned). Probably a dumb question, but could this have anything to do with my having implemented the IE8 fix for the serious security vulnerability discovered after XP support ended?

Packages successfully installed. No reboots required, but I did one anyway. Win Update is still getting stuck in the loop I referenced previously.

No I don't wuweb.dll - 7.0.6000.374 muweb.dll file is missing (checked hidden as well) LegitCheckControl.DLL - 1.9.40.0

Thanks everyone. I enabled Auto Update and BITS and tried MS online windows update. The site updated my computer to something like the current installer, then the site got stuck in a loop alternating between two readouts:

Long-time XP user here, and for most of that time I've refused to do any Windows Updates. Well, I'm now rethinking that - hence this post. I'd like to get the most important updates, and only those that apply to my system/usage if possible. Any recommendations? I'm not even certain if I can still download updates to be honest. Thank you