I'm trying to install Security Update for Internet Explorer (832894). When I go to run the program I get the error message update\update.exe is not a valid Win 32 application. What can I do to run this without this error message coming up Is there a particular update I need to install or change any setting on my pc
Win32 application error
ackermsb
Seems like the perfect place for it to me. I did a searck with this persons exact error and this is where I ended up, perfect.
Now the way I see it. Who's being so picky when a highly specialized file written and designed spacifically for microsoft, downloaded directly from the microsoft download page, through a microsoft update, to a microsoft operated machine for a microsoft operating system, validated by the microsoft validating hoop, gets tripped over by the microsoft installer only for this microsoft O/P to tell me that this is not in any way designed for my microsoft computer. Geography is irrelivant at this point and who can be picky when there is this going on......and no, I don't work for the postal service.
".....update\update.exe is not a valid Win32 application....."
Talking about strange. I think that I'm going to say that my computer is a strange place for that retarded message to be. Not to mention that I haven't scene my "system32 folder" for over a month. Nor have I been able to re install any of the very important scripts therein either. And why is it in this, some decade+ since win95, that the leash of winupdate just can't detect something like that and correct the issue Or maybe even pick up on it itself like a whole host of high quality, fledgeling 3rd party apps that seem to take care of themselves quite nicely ie: Firefox, VLC, Dvix, Java, Flash, Limewire, SuperC, Quintisential to name a few. Pretty much any media player on the block makes Win Mediaplayer look like it needs prozac and 4 lawyers it's so unstable.
From mirosoft to Norton to my ISP to BlackBerry to Dell. How is that nobody can even reference any of the multitude of errors that I am getting on an hourly bassis In the last 4 weeks I have downloaded over 20 gigs worth of *** in an effort to bandaid this OS. I suppose that everybody is off babysitting vista instead of taking care of home.
I realize, to whom it may concern, that I appear to be one, angry guy going off. Well I am, but now that I am done that little rant, I return to my main focus of solving my problem ASAP and working well with whom ever it is that is going to help me. I thank that brave person in advance and I look forword to hearing from you very soon.
DanR1
There are multiple forums. Each has their own community around a general or a specialized topic. This forum is on a specialized topic that appears to be different than the problems and the past experiences that you describe.
In that sense, you have simply found the wrong place. What is misleading for you is that another found the wrong place before you, and that post was found in your search.
I understand about this being difficult for beginners and those not experienced with the focus of this particular forum.
There are only three ways this can go, I think:
I don't believe (1) has happened.
I believe that I have given you suggestions about better places to look, so (2) has occurred. Have you taken that advice
Do you think it is better to leave this thread here Or would it be better to delete the thread and reduce the danger of inexperienced users coming here thinking this is a place for the kind of assistance that you were looking for
An alternative might be to create a "sticky" post that lists the kinds of questions that we don't know how to answer here but that suggest other places to look. Would that have been more helpful to you
What do you see as the most constructive and helpful
- Dennis
PS: With regard to your litany of bad experience, I cannot help you. This is not a Microsoft support forum. It is not in my power to deal with your unsatisfactory past experiences. In some sense, it is entirely up to you to remedy that. I can't do anything about your past experience. I am sure there are forums out on the Internet where you can find like-minded people who have strong ideas about alternatives that you might consider. There are also web sites where people offer mutual assistance on system problems and how to overcome them. This MSDN Forum is of the second kind, but for a specialized subject.
ErikL2007
Last time I checked, elements of my post factored directly with the focus here.
To clarify my expectations when addressing a "forum" would be an open post format for all to see, search and benefit from, no matter the level of knowledge. A community based atmosphere to me indicates that any person to frequent a given thread that has more knowledge freely and willingly either offers what they know or offers a direction to the questions focus.
If my interpretation of the "forum" premise is flawed then I apologize, I am wrong. If there are any part of my views that are to be found correct, then my questions stand.
How or why or anybody ended up here instead of someplace else isn't our problem. The blame belongs to whom ever developped the forum and inharently the owner of the operating system. That's the licencer, not the licencee. A person, less then a power user arrives at MS website because, to a large extent, forced to use a chronically ill OS. In ten years it hasn't gotten better, just bigger. 80% of the problems don't need to happen so people end up here. We don't need to know why we just need it to work. It's frustrating/silly enough that there was an error but to find that the system in place to cope with, what should be on only the rare occasion, unforeseen problem is wholly dysfunctional. How idiotic is that after the lopsided proliferation of Microsoft and the staggering resources available, that the only answers to problems that should never happen to begin with, are to reformat/reinstall the opperating system
_Matt Smith _
I said this was a strange place to post the message because this Forum is about the Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition and is not a likely place to obtain information about general Windows operations, the use of on-line updates, installing downloads (other than the one for VC++ 2005 EE), and so on.
Similarly, while you can vent here, it is probably not going to get the attention it deserves, and the fact that search led you here is unfortunate because, as you saw yourself, there has been no assistance offered since the original post on April 23, 2006. Now search can find this page for two reasons, so long as it remains here, but it won't be helpful to anyone who comes here looking for assistance with that particular problem.
Sorry, this is not the place where anyone with expertise on your problem hangs out (except by lucky coincidence). The silence since April 23, 2006 is not a good sign.
- Dennis
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