@Ricky wrote:
Well that was short lived. I got excited way to early. Problem checking for updates error is back. Starting at square 1 again.
Ugh. Well, I'm clueless. This is one of the instances where a finite amount of data per month can be a definite hindrance to something important, as it's not like you can just start over again so easily when you don't have the data to do so, or prehaps even the time.
When I was having the problem I started again from scratch and used the new Windows 8.1 installation media I had created (I made a DVD). I started from scratch, perfroming a clean install, because when I finally got the answers about the two files I should install, plus the prerequisites for the one, I had, by then, tried a slew of different things to get the updates to work, and I thought that perhaps I had tainted the installation I had and wanted to start fresh. But, I had data left, plus the notebook I was trying to do all of this on was more or less a spare, so I could do it at my leisure. At least data wise you are in a different situation, and from the sounds of it the computer you are trying to get this to work on is either your main computer, or at least one you use very often.
I truly wish I had some other ideas for you to try. From the sounds of it, there's nothing wrong with your computer itself and it's strictly software related. That doesn't make it any less frustrating of a problem, though.
