There is supposed to be a big batch of update patches (13?) due for download off Microsoft today(February 8th) Yet the auto update has not worked, and the MS Update page is showing an error message 0x800B0001 and

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Windows Update has encountered an error and cannot display the requested page.

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Anybody have any better luck than me?

I just went to Window's update site & downloaded 3 updates.... What version of Windows are you running? I have XP Pro Corp. Edition

I too have XP Pro with Sp2 and the setups hardly been touched since installation
Last update went smoothly
The reports from my posting elsewhere (In the UK)say they have recieved the download
Me? I'm still seeing that message
Will try again later. Perhaps I keep accessing a poor server link by luck ?

Try this LINKY
See if it's the same link.... this is the one I usually get on for XP

Just tried you link to the update site & didn't have a problem gettin in.

Only thing out of order this end was the update light was yellow which means they can still download but after a prompt (No prompt message )
Have opened it up fully to a Green light but still no action yet And Security on IE is at Medium ... Shall see what happens later today

I'm now off line totally
The culprit of this fault is a combination of the firewall,Broadband network settings
And I have had to do a system restore which I found out Does not work with programs running in the area by the clock(have to shut down everything as if you are doing a defrag)
Might be back later on?(depending on "luck" )

I got back with a reinstall of my BB software and My AOL software and Firewall
Nearly 24 hours offline
Everythings displaying correctly again
I sat in the library (wet afternoon ) playing catchup on AP & DP

Good to hear bedstor.... the hard drive on my laptop just stopped working yesterday.... went out & spent money buying a new hard drive & spent most of today reinstalling all my programs.... lucky I had done a backup of all my important stuff... just finishing off the updates for all my programs.... lucky I have another 6 computers here to use... so, didn't miss it too much..

Went down again though I thought all sorts of thing
I have posted on this UK forum with all the links
The first failure was due to the Birmingham main server(100 miles away) going Down on the day I first posted this topic, then the Manchester Main Server on Friday(Local area 35 miles away) Seems there is an overlap of coverage areas but NO emergency Plan
So I never had a fault on my machine in the first place. It was the servers to blame! And the 2nd time there was people all over the UK with their BB off-line Dial-up was unaffected.