Hal, I don't have problems like you but only don't good luck to get in to the window update website and there, I can not view the page properly. So, I think that we talk here about two different problems. to enable activex controls you have to press in this website alt+n for information bar and then, right click and see there the option to run activex control, it was at least in my case. Thanks Moti ----- Original Message ----- From: Hal Pearson To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 6:04 AM Subject: Re: problem with Microsoft Update website Moti, I just got a new 75 gb hard drive and I'm having a similar problem, but in my case updates aren't being installed when I use automatic updates accessed with Jaws hotkey insert f11 to get to system tray. When I hit enter on update button jfw 9.0 informs me that updates are being installed and that I can continue to work while this is going on. So far so good but five seconds later I get greeted with a message "automatic updates, close" . I then tab one time to a list view where I find that some updates failed to install and so I just hit escape to close the dialog. No matter what I try the updates keep failing. How do I enable active ex controls? any other reasons why this can occur? ----- Original Message ----- From: Moti Azrad To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; Jawslite list Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 3:33 PM Subject: problem with Microsoft Update website Hi friends, I've reformatted my pc and installed fresh XP PRO. So, I had to check and install all the priority updates. I did it but in the last two days, I have problems with the website: Microsoft update and I get a message of a problem and error: 0x80075efd or something like that and there I found a link that gave me some instructions to solve this problem but, I didn't have good luck yet. I must clear that I don't have any problems with other websites but with this one, of Microsoft Update. I remembered that I enabled the activex control to run there at the beginning as recommended by Microsoft. Any help Thanks Moti