I have been trying to download updates for some time now. They quit doing it
automatically in October. Took it in and had them look at it at Best Buy
where I bought my computer. The Geek on the Geek Squad managed to download
them. I come home and once again can't do it.
Keep getting error message 0x80072EFD The website has encountered a problem
and cannot display the page you are trying to view.
I have done all you have suggested and put every site known to microsoft
update in my allow sites. Please help. Don't know what else to do.
Would like to stay updated.
(And in my Outlook Express it doesn't allow me to automatically go to sites
when I click on them. I have to copy and paste, so please put in the web
address when a response is given. Thank you)

You may receive an "Error 0x80072EE2," "Error 0x80072EE7," "Error
0x80072EFD," "Error 0x80072F76," or "Error 0x80072F78" error message when
you try to use the Windows Update Web site or the Microsoft Update Web site:
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;836941

Links in OE Problem:

1. You click on a link and an IE window doesn't even open:

http://www.oehelp.com/ielnk.aspx.

2. You click on a link and an IE window opens but it doesn't load:

Try re-registering all of the DLLs listed in this KB article...

You Cannot Open New Internet Explorer Window or Nothing Happens After You
Click on a Link
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=281679

3. Installing the latest Cumulative Patch for IE may solve the problem as a
side-effect. Check in at Windows Update (once you fix that problem).
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

Joey Oz wrote:
> I have been trying to download updates for some time now. They quit doing
> it automatically in October. Took it in and had them look at it at Best
> Buy where I bought my computer. The Geek on the Geek Squad managed to
> download them. I come home and once again can't do it.
> Keep getting error message 0x80072EFD The website has encountered a
> problem and cannot display the page you are trying to view.
> I have done all you have suggested and put every site known to microsoft
> update in my allow sites. Please help. Don't know what else to do.
> Would like to stay updated.
> (And in my Outlook Express it doesn't allow me to automatically go to
> sites when I click on them. I have to copy and paste, so please put in
> the web address when a response is given. Thank you)

I have been having this problem for a couple of weeks and I followed the link
in this thread to http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;836941
and went to check the settings on my firewall and found that somehow some of
my settings were blocking the update files that are needed to interact with
Microsofts updates page. When I corrected these settings I went back over to
the site and it worked just like it was supposed to.

"PA Bear" wrote:

> You may receive an "Error 0x80072EE2," "Error 0x80072EE7," "Error
> 0x80072EFD," "Error 0x80072F76," or "Error 0x80072F78" error message when
> you try to use the Windows Update Web site or the Microsoft Update Web site:
> http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;836941
>
> Links in OE Problem:
>
> 1. You click on a link and an IE window doesn't even open:
>
> http://www.oehelp.com/ielnk.aspx.
>
> 2. You click on a link and an IE window opens but it doesn't load:
>
> Try re-registering all of the DLLs listed in this KB article...
>
> You Cannot Open New Internet Explorer Window or Nothing Happens After You
> Click on a Link
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=281679
>
> 3. Installing the latest Cumulative Patch for IE may solve the problem as a
> side-effect. Check in at Windows Update (once you fix that problem).
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org
>
> Joey Oz wrote:
> > I have been trying to download updates for some time now. They quit doing
> > it automatically in October. Took it in and had them look at it at Best
> > Buy where I bought my computer. The Geek on the Geek Squad managed to
> > download them. I come home and once again can't do it.
> > Keep getting error message 0x80072EFD The website has encountered a
> > problem and cannot display the page you are trying to view.
> > I have done all you have suggested and put every site known to microsoft
> > update in my allow sites. Please help. Don't know what else to do.
> > Would like to stay updated.
> > (And in my Outlook Express it doesn't allow me to automatically go to
> > sites when I click on them. I have to copy and paste, so please put in
> > the web address when a response is given. Thank you)
>
>