Here's the solution to:Windows XP 0-100% Quick Update Scan, Root Certificates,Cookies

[romanntiko]

For the past two weeks I have been having problems with MS Update Site. I would attempt to scan for updates and only get 0-100% quick scan not giving me anything to update.

To make things worse, I started to get a bunch of root certificates pop up like mad every time I wanted to access a site, strangely I would get it from Hotmail, WAMU, Citibank.... You would think these would be the least....

Lastly, I noticed every time I would attempt to cookie my sign in say for example "techguy.org" or any other tech support site.. I wouldn't work. That really started to annoy me. Today while surfing the virtualdr boards, I found a thread relating to this problem. To my surprise the solution was very easy...

The problem was all in the date and year of my PC. I had Nov 29, 2019! The thread continued on how having an invalid date would mess with your cookies. So I corrected, restarted, checked BIOS, fired up XP and BAM! Everything was fixed.... Updated via MS updater, no more root pop ups and cookied like a good cookie should do


CHEERS

~R~

[scouse]

good post mate

[toletyouknow]

YOU ARE GOD!!! You have no idea how much your simple post helped! I couldn't do anything with cookies on any page. AOL Instant Messanger wouldn't work. Media Player wouldn't work. I was sure I had a virus attacking my pc, so I dled the panda demo and it didnt find anything. I was so nervous, after reading your post, I checked my clock, and sure enough, somehow it was set to January 1999. I switched to the write date and this fixed everything! I registered here just to let you know how much this helped. Thanks so much!

[romanntiko]

Your very welcome! Glad to see this assisted your problem. I wasn't aware that AIM didn't work either... interesting...

Cheers

R