Dave-H

Still working today, but it's very flaky. It can take several attempts to get the page to load properly. The big difference now is that if you can the page up fully, scans no longer immediately fail as they did before. Such a shame we didn't have this before the final Office 2010 updates were rolled out on the 15th! I'm thinking of perhaps trying uninstalling one of them to see if I can now get it back through Microsoft Update!

Still working fine here, although it can take a couple of attempts to load. For those it's not working for, did you replace wuaueng.dll in the dllcache folder as well as in system32? If you don't, Windows File Protection will just put the old version straight back again!

It works!

On Windows 10 Home updates are installed whether you like it or not AFAIK. On Windows 10 Pro, which is what I have, you can defer them for a period, but that's all. Not quite the same thing! Doesn't worry me as I'll want to install the updates anyway. That's good to know! I was fairly convinced that MS had now gone down the rental route with Office, like another major software vendor *cough* Adobe *cough*. I wish you could still buy copies of things like Photoshop and Premiere outright instead of having to permanently rent them for a monthly fee, but I guess that's never going to happen again now. I was fairly convinced that MS were doing the same, and it's good if they are still going to be producing standalone versions of Office that you can just buy and keep. I still reckon I'll update before Office 2022 comes out though!

I don't think that not installing the updates is an option, Windows Update will just do it automatically. They will remain listed in Windows Update though so it will be easy to see which ones were installed. I don't know when I will get to doing this, don't expect it too quickly! My plan is to probably uninstall Office 2010 from the Windows 10 side of my main machine, and replace it with Office 2019, which I suspect will be the last standalone non-subscription version of Office. Then I will use the Office 2010 licence key from that old desktop installation to install it on the Windows 10 side of my netbook.

Well I'm thinking of installing Office 2010 on my netbook, which is Windows 10 32 bit. I already have it on the Windows 10 side of my multi-boot main desktop, which has the 64 bit version on it, and Windows Update has always worked fine to update that. If I go ahead with the new 32 bit installation, I'll let you know what updates get offered!

FWIW, would one way of determining exactly what updates are current be to install a clean pre-service pack Office 2010 onto a supported operating system like Windows 10, and then see what updates are offered for it by the Windows Update system? Any which aren't offered can surely be presumed to have been superseded?

It seems I have nothing on my system which needs KB4486701! Anyway, no new MSO.DLL this time it seems, so no XP compatibility problems. RIP Office 2010.............

Thanks! Strange I wasn't offered KB4486701 on Windows 10.

The Microsoft Update site seems to be back up again now, but it's still failing to complete scans.

Four updates today for Office 2010 on Windows 10. KB4486707 - Excel KB4486703 - Word KB4486663 - Outlook KB4486700 - Office I guess that's it! Haven't tried finding and installing them on XP yet.

Four updates today for Office 2010 on Windows 10. KB4486707 - Excel KB4486703 - Word KB4486663 - Outlook KB4486700 - Office I guess that's it!

Have you tried booting into "safe mode with networking" and trying it then?

@heinogandais the one to help with that, I hope he's still around. Try sending him a PM.

@KeyCat FWIW the updater is still working fine for me. AFAIK it's a standalone program which doesn't depend on anything else, apart from an internet connection of course! It looks likely to me that you have something blocking its connection.

Indeed so, it will be interesting to see if there are actually any final updates then. I would love to see them roll out a final version of MSO.DLL which is XP compatible, but I'm not holding my breath!

There might be more updates on the October 13th "Patch Tuesday", but they will be the very last I would have thought.

Unfortunately I kept very few of the updates as there was no reason to as they just happened automatically through Microsoft Update (RIP) and I never had to install them manually.

Yes but they probably couldn't easily remove all the other updates and just leave those two Office ones! I suppose it's good to know that the update archive is still there and hasn't been trashed (yet) and it's just the automatic accessing of it that's been disabled. I'm assuming that Microsoft Update doesn't just get its updates straight from the Update Catalogue, which is still manually accessible of course. As Vistapocalypse says, maybe it was just a mistake!

I do wonder if the system was just re-enabled temporarily to deliver those two Office 2010 updates, as has be speculated, although it has been pointed out that the two updates concerned had actually already been released back in August (although not through MS Update). It will be interesting to see if it comes back to life again for Patch Tuesday on October 13th, to deliver what are expected to be the last updates for Office 2010.

Microsoft Update seems to have died again, just showing Error 0x80244019 at the moment as soon as it starts to scan.

It's probably been like it for a while, but I've just noticed that on XP Oracle's Java test page now redirects to an uninstall page, saying that the operating system is not supported and Java should be removed. It works in Firefox, but in Internet Explorer 8 even this doesn't seem to work, I'm just getting a progress indicator followed by a black white page!

So they were! And I installed them both then as well, manually from the catalogue files. When I checked the files after yesterday's updates, the only file that had changed was PPCORE.DLL, which had apparently updated from 14.0.7248.5000 to 14.0.7257.5000. The former was date stamped 25/03/20, the latter is 24/07/20. So the "new" version is not in fact particularly new! The "Outlook" update didn't seem to change anything, but that could well be because I don't have Outlook actually installed as part of the Office suite. Back in April, my PPCORE.DLL was updated from version 14.0.7243.5000 to 14.0.7248.5000, and that was the last time until yesterday. So, it looks as if when I manually installed KB4092435 in August, it didn't actually update it, although I've checked the logs and it supposedly installed successfully, on August 14th! Very strange, but if nothing else it shows that MS Update isn't quite dead yet!

Amazingly, two updates today! KB4092435 (PowerPoint) KB4484497 (Outlook) Both offered and installed through Microsoft Update, which I was pretty convinced would never work again! No MSO.DLL replacement. Why these were suddenly rolled out a couple of weeks before the next Patch Tuesday, when I was expecting the very last set of updates for Office 2010, I have no idea!

Believe it or not, I've just been offered two updates for Office 2010 through Automatic Updates, with a yellow shield in the system tray, after weeks of it repeatedly saying in the Event Log that it can't connect! I immediately went to the Microsoft Update website, and it successfully scanned for them and installed them, so it's not quite dead yet!