W7 64 SR1. Activated OK
Just loaded W7 into a brand new PC, still uncluttered by 3rd party software. Tested Interent and downloaded Security Essentials without issue.
When I tried to run windows update it returned error 8024402F. After lot's of research and striking further issues with MS products, I am stumped. Windows fixits also run to error. An attempt to download IE9 results in slow response then redirection to a 'could not load website, try later' page. I tried stopping and restarting windows update server but there was no change. I tried reinstallation; same result. I navigated to update.microsoft.com to (correctly) receive the message I need to run update from the laptop. From discovering the issue to giving up took about 6 hours. Am I missing something simple? Did the MS Server die recently or is there another issue affecting update, fixits and IE9 download are not behaving as they should?