On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Stephen Williams wrote:
in attempting to patch systems here (at U of Texas) I have noticed that over the last two days the windowsupdate url for Microsoft has at times not responded, or been very slow to respond. Between port scans from the worm and the demand of people wanting to download patches they may be getting a bit overwhelmed.
On a few of the machines I patched that already had it running, IE would flip to Done with a blank screen. Checked the registry and removed everything except default from Run (with a reg backup of course) and removed everything from the startup menu. Reboot and it pulled up windows update. In one instance had 2 machines sitting side by side. Both had MSN as home page. Both would pull the MSN site up fine. Click on tools/WUPD and one would go every time. The other would open a blank web site. Removed all from Run in registry and cleared startup. Reboot and viola WindowsUpdate pulls up. (Patch, reboot, patch, reboot, driver update, reboot, and then add keys back to registry that were really needed) Note: On one windows XP machine unchecking all in msconfig for registry was not enough. G P.S. Patching my FreeBSD machines twice this last week was soo much easier.