Dave-H

Is there any way to correct the location information for Cortana? If I ask what the weather's going to be, it gives me information about somewhere 100 miles away, unless I actually specify the location! My default location on Windows 10 is set correctly. If I look at the settings for the apps which can use my location, Cortana is not listed! This is very annoying, is there any fix? I'm using Windows 10 20H2. Thanks, Dave.

Yes, the version on MajorGeeks only works on Windows 10. You need version 20.12.2016, which despite its apparent age is the last version until the Windows 10 only version. Apparently you can get it on the MDL board, but you seem to have to be a member to do it. The original Russian forum download seems to have gone.

I tried installing KB4486738 on XP, and as expected, I got the message "There are no products affected by this package installed on this system". That explains why I wasn't offered it by Windows Update on Windows 10. It replaces wwlibcxm.dll, a file which is not on my system. I'm not quite sure what that file is, but the best I can find is that it's something to do with displaying XML content in Word documents, a facility which was apparently removed in January. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2445060

Yes, the images are fine now. WUMT still just permanently scanning for me, and never finding anything.

None of your image links seem to work.

The whole thing, can you still get updates with the new installation on XP SP1?

I tried Eudora OSE but dropped it pretty quickly. It doesn't have the facility to edit received messages for a start, which I use all the time on Eudora. It's also based on a version of Thunderbird which is itself very out of date now, and the program hasn't been updated for years. Off topic, but you're better off IMO with the last version of "real" Eudora (7.1.0.9) and the Hermes update which adds TLS 1.2 support, which many e-mail providers are now insisting on.

Does it still work though?

Thanks, I'll be interested to see if it's the same. I've left it scanning for 30 minutes or so, but nothing is found, and as I mentioned earlier the scan cannot be terminated except by shutting the program, which isn't normal behaviour. It's like it's caught in a loop or something.

Why does your WUMT say "Corporate SUS Server" where mine says "Windows Server Update Service"?

It doesn't seem to be failing now, it's just scanning forever and never finding anything! Also you can't stop it by just pressing the X, it just carries on.

There's also KB4486738, which I wasn't offered on Windows 10 presumably because I don't need it.

I know some people do use Stunnel on domestic PCs for things like logging onto current e-mail servers with legacy e-mail clients like Eudora which now can't log on normally.

Thanks again. I've tried the new URL (the original one you gave didn't have the "nf:8530" bit) but still no joy. It seems a bit different now, sometimes it fails almost immediately, sometimes it scans for ages and then fails, but always ends up with "An error has occurred: 0x8024400A".

Strange, the updates are listed on that link now, but when I Googled for the KB numbers a few hours ago, there was nothing found at all! They must have almost literally just put that information up, long after the updates were being offered by Windows Update!

Completely unexpectedly, another five Office 2010 updates on my Windows 10 netbook today! KB4484455 Office KB4486740 Word KB4486737 Office KB4486743 Excel KB4484534 Office

Completely unexpectedly, I've been offered five updates for Office 2010 today, on my Windows 10 netbook! They are - KB4484455 Office KB4486740 Word KB4486737 Office KB4486743 Excel KB4484534 Office They all seem to have downloaded and are pending install (I'm also doing the 20H2 Windows 10 update, which is going to take ages on this machine!) Searching for those updates, there seems to be no information about them, but they are in the Update Catalogue!

No, still no joy at all here I'm afraid!

Thanks! I tried with your proxy, and WUMT is just failing with error 0x8024400A all the time.

Thanks, yes Stunnel has been around a long time, and I know that many people use it. Personally I use ProxHTTPSProxy, which has been ported to XP my @heinoganda. I don't know what the pros and cons are of one program over the other, but HTTPSProxy seems to do everything I need at the moment. Welcome to the forum BTW!

Not working now here I'm afraid, on Windows Update or Microsoft Update, on the IE8 website, or on WUMT. Error 0x80072EFD.

I doubt that page is wrong, as it's the official download page from the K-Lite developers of course, but I'm sure that when 13.8.2 came out, they said that was the last XP version, because I labelled the installation file as such. It is of course possible that they then changed their mind and produced a further XP version! All I know is that 13.8.2 has worked for me for several years now with no problems. It might still be worth trying it if you can find a copy, I doubt that 13.8.5 is very different.

Some people, including me, had it apparently working again using the hack from MDL. Unfortunately it looks as if that workaround has now been blocked.

Unfortunately very intermittent faults which cannot be triggered at will are always extremely difficult to pin down. I agree that ntdll.dll is extremely unlikely to be the culprit, it's recorded as having been involved in the crash, but it probably wouldn't have actually caused it. I think the only thing you can do is to uninstall the K-Lite Codec Pack and see if the problem goes away, as it seemed to appear after you installed it. I realise this isn't ideal, as it could be months before you can prove whether the problem has actually gone away or not! Incidentally, you said you installed K-Lite version 13.8.5. My understanding is that the last XP compatible version is 13.8.2, which is an update to the last compatible full version which is 13.8.0. It is just possible that 13.8.5 does in fact contain something which isn't actually XP compatible, and is causing the problem. I have had 13.8.2 installed for several years, and it has caused no problems, so perhaps trying that version might be an idea.

Thanks again, I have expanded the thread title to be a bit clearer as to what it's actually about!