Cannot run/install Windows Update

[bong2x]

Thanks for the help. and THANKS AVAST! you idiots need to test your software more.

   

let us know first what kind of file you like to play in WMP ?

is it RMVB files? if it is RMVB its not supported by WMP.

yuo need to install another player like VLC or REAL Player  

Regards!!!!!

[drohr]

Well .... u don't have any old versions or any new ones. I used the uninstall utility. I still cannot use Windows Media Player OR update Windows. All this because i installed Avast v.5.

I was told that i need to update/re-installed my Windows update utility of re-reg the files. It didn't work. Nothing works. Has this happened to anybody else at all?

I have the same OS on all my systems... and installed Avast Internet Security 5 on mine. have McAfee on another and Norton Security Suite on the 3rd. Only on mine (with the Avast) i cannot update Windows. Nothing serious was changed to effect that.

Again ... this sucks ... if i can't get it right i need to re-ionwstall Windows. Thanks Avast! Asses! (not the users)

I will keep this system working for a while and give a change to see IF someone here can actually help me ... the guys that have tried to help? Thanks guys. Everything you suggested i did but i am still in the same spot.

[Asyn]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/836941
asyn

[bong2x]

your problem is window update, why blame it in avast???  :'(

avast do nothing in window update,

in my experience of using window7 avast need also the windows update so that it will be adopted by the OS

and i do not see any reason that avast will block your update

just observe the video you play maybe its broken and WMP won't play it

try play in VLC even broken video it will play but until in the readable amount only 

bong2x

[drohr]

Again.. Both you guys seem NOT to be either reading the post.

Going in a loop here.

Thanks guys.

Since nobody here seems to have any isea what their software has done to my system, i am NOT going to suggest to any of my clients to use Avast. At all. I would rather suggest to use Norton than Avast. I cannot have my customers systems F^^^^ed up because of this.

Yes .. my problem is Windows Update... but none of this happened until Avast v.5 was installed on my system.

[SafeSurf]

drohr,

If you would like, you can contact Avast here: Customer Service > Submit a technical ticket http://www.avast.com/contacts.  Explain to them that you have a current thread open and give them the link to this thread.  Thank you.