Question/Problem: Windows Update won't work: Error 8024A000

Operating System, Version and Service Pack: Windows Vista Home Premium

Web Browser: Google Chrome 14.0.835.202

Your level of experience: Beginner-ish?

When did the problem start? Has it been going on constantly since then? Since I've upgraded to a 320gb harddrive from a 250gb one, which was just last week.

Any steps you've taken to troubleshoot? Basically everything? I gave up last Sunday because I was so frustrated, but I'll try to trace my steps:

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I'm stuck with this Intel Rapid Storage Technology icon sitting in my system tray that I don't fully understand, along with a huge headache. So, someone please save me from this agony? (There may have been some crying involved throughout this whole ordeal, yes.)

Thanks in advance!

Sorry if I used the wrong tags.

os: Windows Vista Home Premium
browser: firefox 3.5.16
Problem has been going on for a while now. My fiance got one of the pretend virus protection viruses. (I honestly can't remember the name.) We eventually got it out following the instructions to wipe the virus online. I really don't remember the steps exactly anymore. I just remember transferring the programs we needed via a flash drive and running them under safe mode.

The problem is that now he can't run certain things that connect to the internet. His browsers work, but the downloaded versions of aim, msn, yahoo, and our substiuting program, Jobulator, don't work and some other programs. We've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and running under admin mode. None of that works. Another issue is that he's unable to update anything. Firefox can't update, and neither can Vista. He's been able to get the downloads themselves, but they refuse to install.

Do we need to do a recovery, or can we fix this? I'm not sure if he even has vista recovery disks.

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Thanks for any help you can provide :)

I'm the network administrator for the company I work for and we recently acquired another, smaller company. One of the employees is having email problems. When he sends an email, he immediately gets this message back:

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

      Subject:  RE: Work

      Sent:     4/14/2008 11:33 AM

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

      ****@**********.com on 4/14/2008 11:33 AM

            503 Valid RCPT command must precede DATA

So, I googled it and all I get is info about configuring your email client to authenticate automatically by checking the "my server requires authentication" box in your email configuration.

The problem is, they're running an exchange server. The mail is set up as exchange and not as SMTP, so that option doesn't even exist.

I checked the two other computers in that office and their mail settings are identical and they are not having problems.

Also, when I sent a couple of test messages to and from this problem account, the user could all of the sudden send mail but nothing would come back in, which is the opposite of the problem originally described to me.

I just started learning about Exchange so I'm kind of at the end of my rope here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Operating System and VERSION: Windows XP Professional, Windows Small Business Server R2 2003, Exchange Server 2003

Web Browser and VERSION: Internet Explorer 6

Your level of experience: Advanced

Duration of problem: On and off for a month, ever since their domain name expired and everyone had problems. But we fixed that and a day later it started up again for just this one employee.

Any steps you've taken to troubleshoot? See above.