Vista Doesn't Allow QuickTime Updates
I was having problems trying to update QuickTime on my laptop with Vista. Two different laptops, in fact. It would go all the way through the download, click on the UAC to allow the install but then it would fail. No real clue as to why (one of those wonderful non-specific error messages). After much searching through different engines (Live, Google, Yahoo), I started to see some other blogs refering back to this one site. Turns out it's a problem with VBscript being registered properly on Vista. This was not anything related to the error message I was getting, but it did fix it!
Fix for VBScript Error When Installing iTunes/Quicktime on Vista
Showing posts with label Windows Vista. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows Vista. Show all posts
May 01, 2007
Windows Vista Error
Well, I ran into my first unknown error with Windows Vista. The Windows Update kept running in the background saying that it was downloading an update with 0% finished. This kept on for a couple of days, so I opened up the Control Panel and got one of those wonderfully vague error codes '80070020' - with no other explanation. There's an option to "Get Help" so I tried that and it just took me around in another loop of opening up Windows Update, blah, blah, blah.
So I started Googling ... and found this article: 0x80070020 The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
Ok, right error code, wrong explanation. Sort of. Turns out that if you have real-time antivirus protection running it will interfere with some Windows Updates. Long story short, you have to disable your anti-virus just long enough to get the update installed. I tried that and it worked. Lesson learned.
Well, I ran into my first unknown error with Windows Vista. The Windows Update kept running in the background saying that it was downloading an update with 0% finished. This kept on for a couple of days, so I opened up the Control Panel and got one of those wonderfully vague error codes '80070020' - with no other explanation. There's an option to "Get Help" so I tried that and it just took me around in another loop of opening up Windows Update, blah, blah, blah.
So I started Googling ... and found this article: 0x80070020 The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
Ok, right error code, wrong explanation. Sort of. Turns out that if you have real-time antivirus protection running it will interfere with some Windows Updates. Long story short, you have to disable your anti-virus just long enough to get the update installed. I tried that and it worked. Lesson learned.
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