Reflections on Tech. Life
Friday, December 30, 2005
 
"Setup is currently unable to detect available updates. Please try again later."
"Setup is currently unable to detect available updates. Please try again later."

Just to make sure this useful info gets found:

"Setup is currently unable to detect available updates. Please try again later."
"Setup is currently unable to detect available updates. Please try again later."

MPSetup.exe Windows 2000 W2K pro professional

If you ever see the above error while trying to install something like WMP, Windows Media Player.
Or if your other symptoms include that you have installer that make use of .msi files failing more often than working then
follow these steps:
Go to:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx
For W2K, Windows 2000, go here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/critical/ie6sp1/default.mspx

Download and reinstall your Internet Explorer.

Then run your installers again.

Internet Explorer is so tightly integrated into Windows that if it gets corrupted then even installation won't work.

I hope this helps you as much as it has helped me.
 
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Thursday, December 29, 2005
 
Every now and then Technology will dissapoint us.
Case in point. I notice an O2Micro Secure Digital card slot on the right side of my hp/compaq nw8000. I think, "Perfect, I can make use of that for handy personal file storage and backup.". Afterall redundancy is the best fail safe.

After finding a 150x (high speed) 2GB Secure Digital card and paying too much for it at local prices.

I put the thing in the slot and give it a whirl.

I make the mistake of thinking, "Maybe I need to format this card so that it will work with my OS".

I try FAT, FAT32 and NTFS.

Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

I try to copy a few files over and it speeds up and it slows down as the files are beling copied. Then 3 times in a row it stops while copying a particularly large file. I need to copy over 20,000 files over to the device. It stops at the 13000 file count mark.

This is pretty frustrating.

I also see from doing a few searches that. Support for this type of thing is still pretty embryonic.

I hate bleeding edge! This technology is supposed to be mature at 2 or 3 years of age.

You should just be able to plug it in and go. Back up files at high speed and be happy in the knowledge that the files are there. But no, everytime I reboot with the card in the slot, the OS tells me I have a faulty drive with bad sectors.

I can only conclude that the seamless integration I was hoping for has not been coded into the O2Micro drivers provided by HP.

I've got to research this some more.
 
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