V4 Windows Update site no longer working

[erpdude8]

Hey guys, I went to the V4 Windows Update site on my WinME computer a few days ago:

http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com

and it stopped working. for some reason, it redirects to the update.microsoft.com V6 site

for those who have Win98fe, Win98se or WinME go to that WU site and see if it still works

[dbrunton]

Works for me.

Win98SE. IE6.

Ran through the update process. Told me I had 39 updates (which I don't need).

[amocanu]

For me it works just fine....

http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/catalog/en/default.asp

[Max_04]

Hey guys, I went to the V4 Windows Update site on my WinME computer a few days ago:

http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com

and it stopped working. for some reason, it redirects to the update.microsoft.com V6 site

for those who have Win98fe, Win98se or WinME go to that WU site and see if it still works

For me you misfire.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...mp;#entry631331

[celtish]

Me too. For a while Microsoft was convinced I was on Linux or something. Back to normal now.

[chuckbourdeau]

My WU do not work anymore, it says I am on a other OS than Windows.

[MDGx]

My WU do not work anymore, it says I am on a other OS than Windows.

#$%^&*!

Same here... again.

I guess M$ is shutting down their WU/WUC servers for all 9x OSes.

[the_guy]

I had this problem on Friday, but on Sunday it worked again.

the_guy

[MDGx]

From Anonymous author...

This is really weird.

MDGx wrote on Mar 6, 05:53 AM:

> #$%^&*!

>

> Same here... again.

>

> I guess M$ is shutting down their WU/WUC servers for all 9x OSes.

I thought the same when I tried it b/c I was also redirected to v6... etc.

I then uninstalled the unofficial kb928090, but it did not fix it. I

re-installed kb928090, ran the latest ROOTSUPD.EXE (signed Feb. 1, 2007 -

the version some people claim it does not run under Win98SE) and

everything on the v4 Windows Update site was back to normal. The site has

definitely not been shut down.

I hope this helps.

Actually I thought of this too, and never uninstalled Q928090, but just installed the newest roots update as of January 31 2007 [this link now works *properly* with Win98 + ME: http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownlo...en/rootsupd.exe = and is newer than the roots update we were talking about in this forum a couple of weeks ago], and voila... now all these URLs work ok:

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/catalog/

http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/catalog/

HTH

[soporific]

Actually I thought of this too, and never uninstalled Q928090, but just installed the newest roots update as of January 31 2007 [this link now works *properly* with Win98 + ME: http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownlo...en/rootsupd.exe = and is newer than the roots update we were talking about in this forum a couple of weeks ago], and voila... now all these URLs work ok:

info from my experience: I've got it to work but I first tried with IE v5.0 (ie the one that comes with a fresh install) after installing the latest Rootsup ... got the Mac message. Then used my IE6 module in Auto-Patcher, re-ran the rootsupd and i was in and able to scan for "missing" updates like usual. Someone wanna confirm that IE v5.5 works?

Grrrrr microsoft, enough with stuffing us around! Thank Che i only commented out my 'go to Windows Update' menu option and not deleted the entire bit of code in a flailing spasm of despairing emotion.

Edited March 7, 2007 by soporific

[Rick Chauvin]

From Anonymous author...

I thought the same when I tried it b/c I was also redirected to v6... etc.

I then uninstalled the unofficial kb928090, but it did not fix it. I

re-installed kb928090, ran the latest ROOTSUPD.EXE (signed Feb. 1, 2007 -

the version some people claim it does not run under Win98SE) and

everything on the v4 Windows Update site was back to normal. The site has

definitely not been shut down.

I hope this helps.

Seeing this thread and being curious, and so I just installed the latest Roots too - which btw is now v11,0,2195,0

..and yes that did allow me now to get to the WU site again where before the roots install I could not, however, did any of you notice once you do go to WU what happens to those certificates you just installed? ..I always track Everything I do, and noticed the moment I went to WU just to get to the page (no scans or anything except to click to get the catalogue basket to show up) ..but just going to the WU site changes approximately 200 entries in the registry Roots Systems Certificates entries again.. ..iow it rewrote over changing many of the ones that the v11,0,2195,0 just did..

Now, I have no idea if it's a good thing or not, or if it is normal or not - I am only pointing out what it does; however certainly I Always track and I have never ever seen before that with W98SE just going to the WU site ever changed Certificates like that, until today just now.

To be sure I just checked on another machine and can reproduce this everytime.

For now I just reinstalled roots v11,0,2195,0 and it wrote it back to how it was since I never have to go to WU for W98SE again anyway.

Edited March 7, 2007 by Rick Chauvin

[soporific]

please see this post for a fix for this