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Please see post number 140902 below to see @MrBrian’s latest instructions. It was posted Oct. 26th at 7:23 pm Eastern Time.
To make it a little easier to get back here to this thread, you might wish to bookmark this thread in your favorite browser. That way, one click (and some occasional patience after that click) and you’re here! If you’re not too sure just how to do it, just ask and either I or someone else will surely be able to help you with that.
In addition, due to the ongoing issues accessing email, it might be a good idea to check in here on a regular basis (see the prior paragraph) rather than waiting for emails to catch up to you. That way you may very well get resolution of your questions sooner rather than later. I sincerely hope this tidbit helps!
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walker,
With regards to your post #140700 (directly above this reply), you don’t need OneNote at all. The program MrBrian is talking about, Notepad, is a text editor and viewer that’s been built-in to Windows for a great number of years now, so every edition has it. If you simply double click on a text file, it should open up in Notepad by default with no additional effort needed on your part.
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No, this topic is still open and probably won’t be closed anytime soon.
@MrBrian will probably be here in the next couple of hours to continue helping you out. Please be patient.To help him out a bit, and to answer your question, from what I can tell of what he has said in a couple of previous posts, please leave KB4038777 hidden for now. It does still have an issue or two that might affect you, but that’s another thing to tackle later.
The next item @MrBrian would like you to do (based on what he has said in post #140449 just above this area of this thread) is to provide one of your logs to him that Windows has created during all of the troubleshooting you’ve been doing. He will provide you with instructions on just how to get it to him later this evening after he signs on to this site.
Wishing you all the best in your endeavors!
Bob99
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The initial issue causing the error code has been solved, and the initial poster (walker) and the respondent (MrBrian) have slowly moved on to other items that may again trigger the same error code.
They are in the process of trying to avoid another occurrence of the code by examining various files for clues to what may have caused the problem in the first place.
If you are experiencing the same symptoms or error code with Windows update not wanting to install an update, you may wish to try the solution used in the posts above. However, just because it worked for this situation doesn’t mean it will guaranteed work for you, as every situation is different.
A simple google search using terms such as “Windows Update error code 80070308” is a great way to get started if you’re having problems.
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From https://www.securityforrealpeople.com/2017/10/exploiting-office-native-functionality.html: ‘One final note: after I published this article, fellow Austin security pro Brian Boettcher mentioned a very simple trick to stop this exploit dead in its tracks: disabling the “update automatic links at open” option in Word.’
And for those wanting to know just how to do what Brian is talking about above, go into Word’s Options menu and choose the “Advanced” options. Now, scroll ALL the way down to the heading labeled “General” on the right side of the window. Under there, you should find the check box labeled exactly as described by Brian above! Click the box to remove the check mark that’s probably in it by default, then click the OK button at the bottom of the window and you’re done!
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As an example of just how unique each person’s system is, I just ran WU on my Win7 x64 machine with .NET 3.5.1 and 4.5.2 installed as well as Office 2010 Professional Plus, and all I was offered by WU were four security updates for Office 2010 and the monthly Win 7 rollup along with the usual MSRT (KB890830).
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Homegroup is a feature of Windows 7 to help those at home and some smaller businesses network two or more computers together without a lot of “geeky” effort. Therefore, Revo Uninstaller probably won’t do you any good to try and uninstall it.
However, you can manage it’s settings by going into the Network and Sharing Center. Just click on the little networking icon in your system tray in the lower right corner of the screen and then click the blue link labeled “Open Network and Sharing Center”.
When I originally got Windows 7 back in 2010, it was installed on a new computer that I bought from a local shop (no brand names on it, it was a locally built unit to my specs), and I had another computer that was running XP at home. Well, once I got to the point of plugging in the networking cable, the Win 7 Pro machine found the XP machine and “automagically” set up networking between them, enabling the XP machine to see everything on the 7 Pro machine and vice versa. I later went into the machines and manually tweaked some networking settings to restrict what each could see on the other. That XP machine has since been replaced by a newer Win 7 machine.
So, it could be that the recent updates you’ve installed have “reawakened” that capability on your Win 7 machine somehow.
However, with no more support for XP in the form of security patches, you’re better off leaving the XP machine alone, isolated from the Win 7 machine.
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