Office Update aborts while searching for available updates

[Michael Jørgensen]

Hi,

[I hope this is the right news group.]

I've just re-installed Office XP on my Windows 98 SE machine. Now I want the
latest updates from office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/ and so I press the
"Check for updates" button, but the progress bar stops at 40%, and then a
new page is shown: "The Office Update Catalog cannot be displayed".

While the status bar was progressing, the browser (IE6) reported an error in
line 699 of
http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/mainCatalog.aspx?CTT=98. Something
about the automation-server cannot create the object. [Sorry, but the error
message was in Danish].

This error is reproducible, and I don't know any workaround. I've installed
all the available Windows 98 updates. I even tried to reinstall Windows 98
SE from scratch again, and the same problem remains.

This has always worked previously using the same machine. The only new thing
is that I recently reinstalled Windows 98 from scratch (incl. formatting my
harddrive).

It's possible to browse the available downloads, but I have difficulty
determining, which downloads are applicable and/or necessary to my system.

I like the Office Update, because it is automated and easy to use.

I hope someone has some good advise. Thanks in advance.

-Michael.

 

[J. Lilliquist]

Hi,

[I hope this is the right news group.]

I've just re-installed Office XP on my Windows 98 SE machine. Now I want
the latest updates from office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/ and so I
press the "Check for updates" button, but the progress bar stops at 40%,
and then a new page is shown: "The Office Update Catalog cannot be
displayed".

That site uses ActiveX to call the Installer and I suspect that the
Installer is corrupt somehow. This appears to be quite common with
Windows 98 which used and older version of the Installer than comes
with Office XP. The OS is confused about using two version since
they are not compatable even though MS claims version 2.0 should
work it simple does NOT solved the problem under Windows 98. It
does fix some Windows 2000 installations but NOT Win'98.

P.S. - The Service Packs work fine. Atleast you can install all
three service packs and get most of the bugs out that way.

 

[J. Lilliquist]

Hi,

[I hope this is the right news group.]

I've just re-installed Office XP on my Windows 98 SE machine. Now I want
the latest updates from office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/ and so I
press the "Check for updates" button, but the progress bar stops at 40%,
and then a new page is shown: "The Office Update Catalog cannot be
displayed".

That site uses ActiveX to call the Installer and I suspect that the
Installer is corrupt somehow. This appears to be quite common with
Windows 98 which used and older version of the Installer than comes
with Office XP. The OS is confused about using two version since
they are not compatable even though MS claims version 2.0 should
work it simple does NOT solved the problem under Windows 98. It
does fix some Windows 2000 installations but NOT Win'98.

P.S. - The Service Packs work fine. Atleast you can install all
three service packs and get most of the bugs out that way.

 

[J. Lilliquist]

Hi,

[I hope this is the right news group.]

I've just re-installed Office XP on my Windows 98 SE machine. Now I want
the latest updates from office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/ and so I
press the "Check for updates" button, but the progress bar stops at 40%,
and then a new page is shown: "The Office Update Catalog cannot be
displayed".

That site uses ActiveX to call the Installer and I suspect that the
Installer is corrupt somehow. This appears to be quite common with
Windows 98 which used and older version of the Installer than comes
with Office XP. The OS is confused about using two version since
they are not compatable even though MS claims version 2.0 should
work it simple does NOT solved the problem under Windows 98. It
does fix some Windows 2000 installations but NOT Win'98.

P.S. - The Service Packs work fine. Atleast you can install all
three service packs and get most of the bugs out that way.

 

[J. Lilliquist]

Hi,

[I hope this is the right news group.]

I've just re-installed Office XP on my Windows 98 SE machine. Now I want
the latest updates from office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/ and so I
press the "Check for updates" button, but the progress bar stops at 40%,
and then a new page is shown: "The Office Update Catalog cannot be
displayed".

That site uses ActiveX to call the Installer and I suspect that the
Installer is corrupt somehow. This appears to be quite common with
Windows 98 which used and older version of the Installer than comes
with Office XP. The OS is confused about using two version since
they are not compatable even though MS claims version 2.0 should
work it simple does NOT solved the problem under Windows 98. It
does fix some Windows 2000 installations but NOT Win'98.

P.S. - The Service Packs work fine. Atleast you can install all
three service packs and get most of the bugs out that way.

 

[J. Lilliquist]

Hi,

[I hope this is the right news group.]

I've just re-installed Office XP on my Windows 98 SE machine. Now I want
the latest updates from office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/ and so I
press the "Check for updates" button, but the progress bar stops at 40%,
and then a new page is shown: "The Office Update Catalog cannot be
displayed".

That site uses ActiveX to call the Installer and I suspect that the
Installer is corrupt somehow. This appears to be quite common with
Windows 98 which used and older version of the Installer than comes
with Office XP. The OS is confused about using two version since
they are not compatable even though MS claims version 2.0 should
work it simple does NOT solved the problem under Windows 98. It
does fix some Windows 2000 installations but NOT Win'98.

P.S. - The Service Packs work fine. Atleast you can install all
three service packs and get most of the bugs out that way.

 

[J. Lilliquist]

Hi,

[I hope this is the right news group.]

I've just re-installed Office XP on my Windows 98 SE machine. Now I want
the latest updates from office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/ and so I
press the "Check for updates" button, but the progress bar stops at 40%,
and then a new page is shown: "The Office Update Catalog cannot be
displayed".

That site uses ActiveX to call the Installer and I suspect that the
Installer is corrupt somehow. This appears to be quite common with
Windows 98 which used and older version of the Installer than comes
with Office XP. The OS is confused about using two version since
they are not compatable even though MS claims version 2.0 should
work it simple does NOT solved the problem under Windows 98. It
does fix some Windows 2000 installations but NOT Win'98.

P.S. - The Service Packs work fine. Atleast you can install all
three service packs and get most of the bugs out that way.

 

[J. Lilliquist]

Hi,

[I hope this is the right news group.]

I've just re-installed Office XP on my Windows 98 SE machine. Now I want
the latest updates from office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/ and so I
press the "Check for updates" button, but the progress bar stops at 40%,
and then a new page is shown: "The Office Update Catalog cannot be
displayed".

That site uses ActiveX to call the Installer and I suspect that the
Installer is corrupt somehow. This appears to be quite common with
Windows 98 which used and older version of the Installer than comes
with Office XP. The OS is confused about using two version since
they are not compatable even though MS claims version 2.0 should
work it simple does NOT solved the problem under Windows 98. It
does fix some Windows 2000 installations but NOT Win'98.

P.S. - The Service Packs work fine. Atleast you can install all
three service packs and get most of the bugs out that way.

 

[J. Lilliquist]

Hi,

[I hope this is the right news group.]

I've just re-installed Office XP on my Windows 98 SE machine. Now I want
the latest updates from office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/ and so I
press the "Check for updates" button, but the progress bar stops at 40%,
and then a new page is shown: "The Office Update Catalog cannot be
displayed".

That site uses ActiveX to call the Installer and I suspect that the
Installer is corrupt somehow. This appears to be quite common with
Windows 98 which used and older version of the Installer than comes
with Office XP. The OS is confused about using two version since
they are not compatable even though MS claims version 2.0 should
work it simple does NOT solved the problem under Windows 98. It
does fix some Windows 2000 installations but NOT Win'98.

P.S. - The Service Packs work fine. Atleast you can install all
three service packs and get most of the bugs out that way.

 

[J. Lilliquist]

Hi,

[I hope this is the right news group.]

I've just re-installed Office XP on my Windows 98 SE machine. Now I want
the latest updates from office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/ and so I
press the "Check for updates" button, but the progress bar stops at 40%,
and then a new page is shown: "The Office Update Catalog cannot be
displayed".

That site uses ActiveX to call the Installer and I suspect that the
Installer is corrupt somehow. This appears to be quite common with
Windows 98 which used and older version of the Installer than comes
with Office XP. The OS is confused about using two version since
they are not compatable even though MS claims version 2.0 should
work it simple does NOT solved the problem under Windows 98. It
does fix some Windows 2000 installations but NOT Win'98.

P.S. - The Service Packs work fine. Atleast you can install all
three service packs and get most of the bugs out that way.