Stephen Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 I run XP Home + Firefox I Tried to reach 'MS Updates' & got 'error 403 - access denied' Does anyone have a fix for this ? My e-mail is down at present so the answer will need to be on this site Thanx Stephen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaunno Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 Is it a legit copy of Windows XP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richio Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 Umm How stable is your internet connection? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted January 29, 2011 Author Share Posted January 29, 2011 My XP [home Ed] is fully legit + My Internet connection is solid Stephen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrill Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 Give this a shot Fix your file/registry permissions... Ignore the title and follow the sub-section under "Advanced Troubleshooting" titled, "Method 1: Reset the registry and the file permissions" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949377 *will take time (** Ignore the last step - you should have SP3 - but if not - skip it for now and continue the cleanup/repair.) Reboot and ... Search your registry for %fystem and replace the "f" with an "s". May be three or four matches, may be none. You may even have to take ownership (even after doing the above) of the keys in order to make the change. Reboot and ... Download/install this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301 After installing, do the following: Start button --> RUN --> type in: --> Click OK. (The quotation marks and percentage signs and spacing should be exact.) Download, install, run, update and perform a full scan (separately) with the following two applications (freeware versions are the ones to use for this): MalwareBytes http://www.malwarebytes.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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