WScript Error and Update Problem

[Guest]

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Hi,
Sorry to say my XP machine is being less and less kind to me.
The Software Update for the Help and Support Center does not install. I
keep getting a Windows Script Host (error) message with an OK button that
says:

Windows Script Host (in title bar)
Script: c:\swsetup\sp28974\install.js
Line: 60
Char: 2
Error: Could not create object named "WScript.Shell".
Code: 80040111
Source: WScript.CreateObject

The sp28974 is the file that software update downloaded to me. I always
have to tell it "yes to all" because there are 3-4 files it sees that it has
to overwrite.

My theory is that WScript.exe is corrupt OR that some security setting has
disabled WScript.CreateObject somehow but other updates have worked/installed
ok.

I'd appreciate a bit of advice that will get me back in motion.
--
Inventor - Chopper Pilot

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize (More info?)

On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 16:31:04 -0700, TimMy wrote:

> Hi,
> Sorry to say my XP machine is being less and less kind to me.
> The Software Update for the Help and Support Center does not install. I
> keep getting a Windows Script Host (error) message with an OK button that
> says:
>
> Windows Script Host (in title bar)
> Script: c:\swsetup\sp28974\install.js
> Line: 60
> Char: 2
> Error: Could not create object named "WScript.Shell".
> Code: 80040111
> Source: WScript.CreateObject
>
> The sp28974 is the file that software update downloaded to me. I always
> have to tell it "yes to all" because there are 3-4 files it sees that it has
> to overwrite.
>
> My theory is that WScript.exe is corrupt OR that some security setting has
> disabled WScript.CreateObject somehow but other updates have worked/installed
> ok.
>
> I'd appreciate a bit of advice that will get me back in motion.

This is not a Microsoft update but an HP update. It adds special HP content
to XP's Help and Support. I do not know why it is not installing but
perhaps HP would.

--
Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User