A little intro...
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...1&postcount=13
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Tez
(snip)
I've just rid my housemate's PC of CoolWebSearch (well, I hope I have...) & the only way I could fully remove it was to do all the scans in Safe Mode.
(snip)
|
Right....as above, I have just (I think) cleaned CoolWebSearch (or some variant of it) from my housemate's PC.
I tried to do use Windows Update afterwards, as my mate is a bit...lax...in updating anything.
The Windows Update page loaded, it did the bit where it says its checking for a new version of windows update, but then, instead of giving me the option to scan for updates, it instead said something along the lines of...
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by M$ WinUpdate
Windows Update can only be run in Administrator Mode. Please try again from an Administrator account
|
Fair enough....if his PC was running XP....
...but it uses Win98 SE!
I tried the M$ Help, but the only solution it had was to run Windows Update from an Admin account. No use to me!
Has anyone experienced this before?
Why would WindowsUpdate think my housemate's PC is trying to run it from an NT/2K/XP Limited User account?
Thinking back to the start of my post....perhaps there is still some crap on the PC, which is somehow interfering with WindowsUpdate?
