When a user goes to the Windows Update website, they may see an error that reads :
Server Error 403-Forbidden: Access Denied
You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the
credentials you supplied.
As you can see on this thread on the Microsoft community website, this issue appears to have started some time on December 10th, 2009.
Have the user check their Windows Update log file which can be found by clicking Start-Run and typing %windir%\Windowsupdate.log and looking for an entry similar to this at the bottom of the file:
FATAL: Update required for C:\WINDOWS\system32\wuweb.dll: target version =
7.2.6001.788, required version = 7.4.7600.226
The fix I have been able to confirm here is to have the user (assuming they have the correct permissions on their system) download and install this file
This will update the failing dll file to the required version. (please note that this link will only be for this version of the windows update agent, any future updates would have a different link)
EDIT: I'm seeing some google traffic hitting this post which is great. If it works for you can you please leave a comment confirming?
Friday, December 11, 2009
Thursday, December 03, 2009
A damn dirty tax and spend liberal complains about a TAX?!?!?!
Perusing an old article on Cincinnati.com this portion of the article really stuck out to me:
"A top Hamilton County official has proposed an array of tax increases – for property owners, shoppers, or smokers, among others – to make up for a hole in the fund that paid for construction of the Bengals’ and Reds’ stadiums."
Now to be fair before I begin this rant... I am a smoker. I've been a smoker for over 20 years now. I know it's bad for me, I know it's expensive, I know it smells... save your non-smoker cliche's cuz I've heard them and if my mom, wife, and 6 year old daughter haven't talked me into quitting, there's no way you've got a shot.
What bothers me here, and bothers me about sin taxes in general is not the THOUGHT behind them, but rather the application of said taxes.
See, if you keep raising the prices of cigarettes, eventually people will quit.
That's fine, that's GREAT, I'm all for it... but see you're not raising cigarette taxes to pay for something like healthcare, which costs more because I smoke. You're raising them to pay for a stadium, or a road, or more police officers.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for stadiums, roads, and cops... but if I quit smoking, you've lost that tax revenue I was contributing to pay for those things, so where does this revenue come from? Suddenly you've got the same hole in the budget to fill because you went with the easy solution of picking on those filthy smokers again.
We're an easy group to pick on. We know what we're doing grosses most people out and in my personal experience we're some of the most deferential people in society. For the most part we don't complain that we have to go outside to smoke, we'll avoid large crowds of people, the elderly and children. We begrudgingly accept not smoking in restaurants after meals any longer (even though a smoke after a meal is one of the best 20 cigarettes of the day). Heck you guys don't even want smoking in bars any more, fine.
We've reached a point, however, where the sin tax on tobacco has reached it's peak.
mmkay?
"A top Hamilton County official has proposed an array of tax increases – for property owners, shoppers, or smokers, among others – to make up for a hole in the fund that paid for construction of the Bengals’ and Reds’ stadiums."
Now to be fair before I begin this rant... I am a smoker. I've been a smoker for over 20 years now. I know it's bad for me, I know it's expensive, I know it smells... save your non-smoker cliche's cuz I've heard them and if my mom, wife, and 6 year old daughter haven't talked me into quitting, there's no way you've got a shot.
What bothers me here, and bothers me about sin taxes in general is not the THOUGHT behind them, but rather the application of said taxes.
See, if you keep raising the prices of cigarettes, eventually people will quit.
That's fine, that's GREAT, I'm all for it... but see you're not raising cigarette taxes to pay for something like healthcare, which costs more because I smoke. You're raising them to pay for a stadium, or a road, or more police officers.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for stadiums, roads, and cops... but if I quit smoking, you've lost that tax revenue I was contributing to pay for those things, so where does this revenue come from? Suddenly you've got the same hole in the budget to fill because you went with the easy solution of picking on those filthy smokers again.
We're an easy group to pick on. We know what we're doing grosses most people out and in my personal experience we're some of the most deferential people in society. For the most part we don't complain that we have to go outside to smoke, we'll avoid large crowds of people, the elderly and children. We begrudgingly accept not smoking in restaurants after meals any longer (even though a smoke after a meal is one of the best 20 cigarettes of the day). Heck you guys don't even want smoking in bars any more, fine.
We've reached a point, however, where the sin tax on tobacco has reached it's peak.
mmkay?