Cant Update

BobSacamano

Hey all,

Just need a little help, probably simple but am pulling my hair out. Im using Windows XP home SP2 and need to update to .net framework 3.5 (currently on 2.0). My computer wont update or download anything from the microsoft website, says it cant find server (firefox and IE). My windows is a genuine version. Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

Odaise Gaelach

Is this the page that you're trying to download from? The Microsoft website seems a little slow today, though I seem to be able to download it fine...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=333325FD-AE52-4E35-B531-508D977D32A6&displaylang=en

You could also try downloading the full package instead of the bootstrapper installer. The main problem with this is that it's 197MB big, I'm afraid.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/0/f/60fc5854-3cb8-4892-b6db-bd4f42510f28/dotnetfx35.exe

Rackstar

Could be malware stopping you updating. Have seen this numerous times.

Run a malware scan, I find malwarebytes.org free version very good.

BobSacamano

Yeah pretty sure its malware, cant download anything at all from microsoft. Thanks for the link.