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On decommissioning of update servers for 2000, XP, (and Vista?) as of July 2019

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@Dave-H I've got for you an interesting site to fix Windows Update problems. It is called Reset Windows Update Tool (Script). Here it is: https://github.com/ManuelGil/Script-Reset-Windows-Update-Tool. The last XP compatible version is 10.5.3.7. I've uploaded for you: https://www.mediafire.com/file/k48ll6e41eypogy/ResetWUEng10.5.3.7.zip/file and version 10.5.3.4 with an help file included: https://www.mediafire.com/file/wl0yrq98me8dfkj/ResetWUEng10.5.3.4.zip/file

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1 hour ago, maile3241 said:

No, everything has already been checked. My guess is that the user agent string is wrong. The same problem also occurs in Win 10 when opening the page via Chrome with IEtab. It works fine in Internet Explorer.

If you want my opinion then take a screenshot of folders WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\SelfUpdate\Default\ and WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\WebSetup\ in your Windows 7 system using a file manager like Total Commander with hidden system files and extensions enabled. Windows Explorer is pants. :yes:
PS I think you really shouldn't spoof your user agent. MU has to know which system is yours to provide the suitable updates for it.

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14 minutes ago, AstroSkipper said:

If you want my opinion then take a screenshot of folders WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\SelfUpdate\Default\ and WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\WebSetup\ in your Windows 7 system using a file manager like Total Commander with hidden system files and extensions enabled. Windows Explorer is pants. :yes:
PS I think you really shouldn't spoof your user agent. MU has to know which system is yours to provide the suitable updates for it.

Here the program with hidden files. WebSetup folder on the left and SelfUpdate on the right.

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1 hour ago, AstroSkipper said:

@Dave-H I've got for you an interesting site to fix Windows Update problems. It is called Reset Windows Update Tool (Script). Here it is: https://github.com/ManuelGil/Script-Reset-Windows-Update-Tool. The last XP compatible version is 10.5.3.7. I've uploaded for you: https://www.mediafire.com/file/k48ll6e41eypogy/ResetWUEng10.5.3.7.zip/file and version 10.5.3.4 with an help file included: https://www.mediafire.com/file/wl0yrq98me8dfkj/ResetWUEng10.5.3.4.zip/file

Thanks.
I'm away from home at the moment, back on Thursday, so I will give it a try then.
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33 minutes ago, maile3241 said:

Here the program with hidden files. WebSetup folder on the left and SelfUpdate on the right.

Ok, here you can see the same as in my Windows 7 Professional notebook. Unpack wsus3inf.cab in both folders and try again but I don't think it'll work due to the fact that there had never been a web site vesion of Microsoft Update. But nobody knows it's a trial and error too.

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25 minutes ago, Dave-H said:

Thanks.
I'm away from home at the moment, back on Thursday, so I will give it a try then.

That's fine. But at first read what this fix does and create an image of your system partition only in case the fix fails and has harmed your system.

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15 minutes ago, AstroSkipper said:

Ok, here you can see the same as in my Windows 7 Professional notebook. Unpack wsus3inf.cab in both folders and try again but I don't think it'll work due to the fact that there had never been a web site vesion of Microsoft Update. But nobody knows it's a trial and error too.

Wsus3setup.cab contains these files. What I don't understand is that it works in Vista Rtm and Sp1. From Sp2 I get the same error. It also works fine in Windows 10.:dubbio:

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8 hours ago, maile3241 said:

Wsus3setup.cab contains these files. What I don't understand is that it works in Vista Rtm and Sp1. From Sp2 I get the same error. It also works fine in Windows 10.

You said some posts before you have copied the Wsus3setup.cab from Windows XP which contains the missing files wsus3setup.cat and wsus3setup.inf. Try them! :dubbio:
PS I have looked inside of wsus3setup.inf and I think it's only for Win XP, Win 2000 and undefined x64. But most likely it won't work.

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On 4/27/2021 at 4:19 AM, VistaLover said:

A cursory Google/Microsoft search didn't yield any... :dubbio:
Of course, I did find 

https://download.microsoft.com/download/2/0/E/20E90413-712F-438C-988E-FDAA79A8AC3D/dotnetfx35.exe

(full standalone installer), but it's only SHA-1 signed... :(

This page now provide the SHA-2 signed dotnetfx35.exe (it's signed since July 2021, but the server timestamp for the file is February 2022)

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet-framework/net35-sp1

they also signed the inner installers (exe, msi, msp..), but the content is still the same old dotnetfx35.exe

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17 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:

You said some posts before you have copied the Wsus3setup.cab from Windows XP which contains the missing files wsus3setup.cat and wsus3setup.inf. Try them! :dubbio:
PS I have looked inside of wsus3setup.inf and I think it's only for Win XP, Win 2000 and undefined x64. But most likely it won't work.

I tried it. The file is replaced each time you visit the site. Strange that it works on Windows 10.:dubbio:

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