The requested lookup key was not found in any active activation context

[Az]

wtf is this?!

I use windows update, and then it tells me it cannot install something ( IE 7)

and then this message. I cannot enter urls in IE. I don't use it, but my dad does and it's his computer, and I generally want this to go away.

wtf?

My XP is genuine, btw.

[Proteus_MST]

According to the threads in the Computersub of the Forum where I am mod (and the experience friends have made) there are numerous people who have problems with IE 7,
some even having their system so ****ed up after the installation of IE7 that they needed to reset up their OS (without IE 7 of course)

I can´t really recommend installing IE7
(and haven´t done so on my system)

[Nikolai]

Is this problem common? I hadn't heard of such an issue before this thread.

[laurentius]

Yeah IE 7 is pretty much crap. Doesnt work properly with my XP either. I hope MS wouldnt make us install unfinished garbage like IE 7 as a "windows security update".

MS

[Az]

[laurentius]

[Az]

I installed it as autoupdate.

[laurentius]

me too

[Az]

and no way to uninstall it, of course...

[Aabraxan]

Great . . . and here I just finished installing it on my home computer (which, of course, followed a full Windows reinstall) and installing it on my work computer. . . both as autoupdates.

[Az]

On a distantly related topic, wtf is windows embedded?

[Proteus_MST]

Sounds like just another name for tabbed Browsing,
something Firefox already has since a long time,
but which the Microsoft wasn´t able to implement before IE 7

[Az]

it isn't because one has to have it, whatever it is, to install multilingual user interface.

damn, being oblivious to computers and OSs rules... until this sort of **** happens. Should've kept track...

[DinoDoc]

Re: The requested lookup key was not found in any active activation context

Originally posted by Az
My XP is genuine, btw.

Sure it is.

[Az]

I swear. I even have the purty documents and CD somewhere. It's part of the IBM package.