Update = Error 8000FFF ?????

I am running a clean install version of Vista Home Premium.
Whenever I try to use Microsoft Update I get an error message: Can not
check for updates Error code 800FFF. Can someone help me please?

<tgoodwin@usermail.com> wrote ...
>I am running a clean install version of Vista Home Premium.
> Whenever I try to use Microsoft Update I get an error message: Can not
> check for updates Error code 800FFF. Can someone help me please?

I don't know what's causing the error; but that error is actually 8000FFFF
(with 8 characters). This is a standard Windows error code "Catastrophic
failure". It isn't necessarily "catastrophic"; it just means that Windows
Update failed in a way that it wasn't able to provide a more descriptive
error message.

It isn't one of the common error codes returned by Windows Update; these are
listed at http://support.microsoft.com/ph/6527/

If you don't get a good answer here, you can try asking in
microsoft.public.windowsupdate -
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=9581. That group specialises in
Update problems.

Hope it helps a bit.
--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au

Thank you very much!
You are correct the error code is 8000FFFF.



On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 09:52:33 +1000, "Andrew McLaren"
<andrew@fakeaddress.com> wrote:

><tgoodwin@usermail.com> wrote ...
>>I am running a clean install version of Vista Home Premium.
>> Whenever I try to use Microsoft Update I get an error message: Can not
>> check for updates Error code 800FFF. Can someone help me please?
>
>I don't know what's causing the error; but that error is actually 8000FFFF
>(with 8 characters). This is a standard Windows error code "Catastrophic
>failure". It isn't necessarily "catastrophic"; it just means that Windows
>Update failed in a way that it wasn't able to provide a more descriptive
>error message.
>
>It isn't one of the common error codes returned by Windows Update; these are
>listed at http://support.microsoft.com/ph/6527/
>
>If you don't get a good answer here, you can try asking in
>microsoft.public.windowsupdate -
>http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=9581. That group specialises in
>Update problems.
>
>Hope it helps a bit.