Everything was going fine with my machine up untill recently. Thats when I started getting a runtime error after initially booting up my machine. Specifically, the error states: Run-time error '53': File not found I uninstalled all of the programs I had recently installed, and no luck. Then, after booting up one day I opened task manager and watched my processes as I waited for the error. To my suprise, the error occurs when wuauclt.exe (Windows Automatic Updates)tries to run. I checked a few more times to confirm that this is always the case, and it is. So next I went into my system settings under Automatic Updates to change my stettings, and low and behold, the controls on the Automatic Update tab are all unnaceptable. I can't click on anything. Has anyone ever seen this before? Does anyone know of a way I can restore my Automatic Updates without having to try to find my Windows CDs?

sounds abit more serious to me than just a dig up of your windows cd. My Point of view to this is there could be a more serious problem (virus, spyware) disabling or completely stopping your automatic updates from windows. I'd do a system scan for viruses/ spyware to be on the safe side. But maybe I'm just paranoid and this is another annoying windows problem someone knows more about.... Windows Xp Home Celeron 2.8 Ghz 768mb Ram Geforce 5700LE PCI Card 128MB 128 bit

Name: E-Mail: Subject: Odd Automatic Update Error Message: I recently went to windows update after I rebuilt my computer. while I was trying to update my system I was virused.A popup message claiming to be from microsoft said my system had been compromised and I needed to get an update patch. I went to the site specified and found they wanted 20 dollars (credit card only) for the fix. Microsoft does not charge for legitimate updates so I did not pay. after that I kept Getting Various popups with similar warnings. I did virus scan and found 217 extra .exe's in my system 32 files. deleted extra .exe's and warnings quit. P.S., I called microsoft and they had no info or help at this time. cornerjc