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I've just upgraded XP to Win7 Enterprise (via Vista). In Windows Update Control Panel applet, it says that updates are only enabled for Windows and provides a hyperlink to enable it for other products.

When I click either it, or directly run iexplore http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate as per https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/901037/how-to-enable-and-to-disable-microsoft-update , it redirects me to http://www.update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/thanks.aspx?thankspage=5 which tells me to go back to Control Panel.

ivan_pozdeev
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Jeff Pitsch at http://blog.unidesk.com solved this:

The problem is the web page that is pulled up is not compatible with IE11. Go figure that one of Microsoft's own web pages isn't compatible. So enabling compatibility mode or adding Microsoft.com to the compatibility list solves the issue. Now the proper page comes up and can enable Windows Update to update other Microsoft products. Keep in mind that in some testing you did have to enable the Windows Update add-on when IE came up. Enable the add-on, close IE, and click the link again and you should get the proper page.

Now the nice thing is, with Windows 8, this isn't even a concern because checking for updates for other Microsoft products is simply a check box when you 'Change Settings'.

The dialog to enable Compatibility Mode for microsoft.com is in IE, <cogswheel button>->Compatibility Mode settings.

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