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Re: OT - Help! (Windows corrupted?)


From: "Andrew Haninger" <ahaning () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 01:16:42 -0400

On 10/9/06, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah
<rMslade () shaw ca> wrote:
the little green "working" bar just keeps on flashing back and forth (for hours,
if necessary).
FWIW, I've found that in order to get WindowsUpdate to work on Windows
XP behind a proxy (maybe you're running one?) you need to do:

proxycfg -u

with your proxy information in IE's settings.

I've also heard that turning off Automatic Updates allows WU to work
behind a proxy.

HTH.

Andy
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