On 05/12/2016 08:55 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
After installing around 50 updates - including all security updates for
IE8 - manually I am now able to access windows update online . The comp is
now downloading 104 security updates from M$ .




Glad you got it working.

MS is just making it a bit harder to get updates for their older
operating systems...and with Win10 they are making it too easy...VIZ:
Giving them to you when you don't want them