Microsoft Updates. Won't work.
I have dug out my daughters pc, which has not been used for some time, (about 6 months) to see whether or not it is worth doing some cleaning up and keeping as a spare.
PC is an Advent (Brit PC World brand) 5302. Running everyone's favourite - Vista. Has an Intel core duo, T5550, with 2gb ram and lots of hard drive space.
To do the updates, I've put in a cable to the modem router, although the wi-fi said it was working.
Most things are working OK. The battery is u/s, so it is plugged in to the mains. The clock had survived, (and the pc clocks don't always survive a totally dead battery in my experience). The BT McAfee product is cheerfully updating itself right now. CC cleaner updated itself quickly and works fine.
However, when I try to access M/S update, it tells me that "update cannot currently check for updates as the service is not running".
I've tried going direct to the website, but that just tells me to go back to Start/Windows update.
I've done the helpdesk favourite of turning it off and back on.
Any ideas why Windows Update won't update?
Thanks
AO.