Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Microsoft Outlook XP 2002 0x8004060c

Was receiving the following error message in Outlook 2002 when trying to send/receive email:

Sending and Receiving reported error 0x8004060C (0X8004060C) Unknown Error: 0X8004060C

After googling, came to this page (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304863) which explains the error in more or less words.

Short Answer: your PST file is full, you need to either start using a new PST file and use your old one as an Archive (quickest method I think), or create a new PST File, and move a bunch of your old emails into it (from the old PST file), and then compact your old PST file (google for how if you don't know how).

Problem fixed.

sidenote: a person may want to setup auto-archiving of older emails to another PST file to help avoid this, until the archive pst file becomes full, and then you'll have to adjust the destination to an additional (new) archive pst file after creating another one to use.

fi.

Vista Windows Update Error 0x80072EFE 80072EFE

I encountered the error code of: 0x80072EFE on windows update on a Dell laptop after "upgrading" it (repair install) .

In the end, it ended up being that since the "Automatically detect proxy" was enabled in Internet Options in Internet Explorer, it was trying to detect my ISP's proxies, and in the C:\Windows\windowsupdate.log file, it showed it as failing via a proxy (when I didn't have a specific proxy set).

Anyways, long story short, I simply disabled the Automatically Detect Proxy option in Internet Options in Internet Explorer, windows update now stopped trying to use a proxy that vista was trying to detect (maybe my isp's proxy was down.. or broken or ?). Windows update worked flawlessly after disabling the detect proxy option.

Articles (rather, posts) I found on the problem were often unanswered (successfully) or pointed towards an internet related issue with your system. I had gone through most of a microsoft howto (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/836941/en-us) (found via this post: http://www.vistaheads.com/forums/microsoft-public-windowsupdate/185095-windows-update-fails-error-80072efe.html)on troubleshooting the issue (after manually trying some things myself beforehand), and the howto pointed/reminded me to read the windowsupdate.log file, so I went and checked, and saw the proxy trying to be used (unsuccessfully). In this instance, it was definitely an internet related issue... (a broken proxy or some other issue with it).

fi.