Update BT Desktop Help Software

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Out of interest I just tried it and it did say an update was available and the update button link worked for me. Latest version 12.1.
These are the Windows services it seems to use which I normally have disabled at start up.
As has been said before if you search the web there are some questions around the pcCMService being a possible backdoor for malware. Not sure what BT have to say about that.
https://community.bt.com/t5/Other-Broadband-Queries/bt-desktop-help-pccmservice/td-p/713308

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BT Broadband Desktop Help Update (or not....)

Hi All
I've been getting a message to update my desktop help for a while now - everytime I try I get to a screen that tells me this needs permission to elevate and to click next and wait (it says "This update requires elevation. On clicking
Next you will see an image similar to:") I click next then it does nothing - I'm running Win7 64bit
Any thoughts?
Bob

I suffered the same issue and discovered that the popup window was behind the one I was working on

Desktop Help Update

I keep getting the message that there is a critical Update for desktop help!! when following the link I select next and nothing at all happens? Windows 7 64 bit

I too have had this problem except it does keep trying to download an update, gets so far and then a message saying we are experiencing problems, please try later. Its an irritation rather than a concern, but I ams suprised there is not anything n a prominant place on the forum to indicate what the problem is.
I know that as a diagnostic tool that it is not that brilliant but it has occassionally resolved issues for me.

Unending connectivity problems -- and Desktop Help...

I'm wasting so much time on connectivity problems that it's positively wearying. Prior to the installation of BT Infinity here in April, I had a low quality broadband service because of the length of the line from the exchange: if I could get a download speed of 1.2Mbps and an upload of a quarter of that, I was doing well.
BT advised that thanks to fibre optic, my Internet should run much faster. So we had Infinity installed. I'm registered with Speedtest.net so am able to see my performance record.
The average download speed is now aroun d 6Mbps and the average upload, more than that at 7Mbps. How an upload speed can consistently be faster than a download escapes me.
But I'm not familiar with the ways of Internet connectivity and try as a I might, can't get my head around it.
This desktop computer runs Vista OS. Vista was **bleep** when it came out and is renowned for its botched handling of Internet connections. So I'm not blaming BT for the literally unending connectivity problems that are occurring now, with line drops, speeds slowing to a crawl, and no guarantee that any connection will last. But it would be good to actually use BT software to help fathom out what's going wrong here, and today's typical morning which looks like this:
1) Boot up computer. Automatic connection to hub via Netgear USB wireless adapter. Hub is on ground floor of this 3-storey property but signal strength from hub is excellent, as confirmed by inSSIDer monitoring, currently showing 54 with no other networks anywhere near that figure.
2) Perhaps 5 minutes after connection established, it's then lost. 'Local Only' is displayed. This is, apparently, a known Vista problem. But Microsoft has issued a fix for it. I know this, because it took 100 hours of ploughin g the Net to find out that MS had finally admitted to one more Vista screw-up. I've used the Microsoft router "fix it" before and it didn't work ("failed to process") so uninstalled it and have DL'd it again now and run it. This time it says it has fixed everything.
3) Computer is re-booted to make the fix effective. Computer connects to Internet. Speedtest.net check yet again confirms that upload speed is faster than download speed.
4) Connection dies. So much for Microsoft Fix It.
5) Windows diagnostics reports that it can re-set the IP profile (or something.) I click yes. The re-set goes through. Connectivity is restored. 10 minutes later, connectivity is lost. Just a red X in the tray. No connection of any kind, not even that daft 'Local Connection' only alert.
6) Reboot. Yet again. BT Desktop Help was installed here and ran OK when we were using our Netgear DSG34 router. But since the change to the BT Hub, the BT program has never run at all. So-oo. . . It has been uninstalled. And then re-DL'd and re-installed. And though the installation has been completed, clicking on 'launch' has failed to launch anything. But anyway. An hour ago, in one of the brief periods today when the Internet connection was holding up, I Revo-ed out the earlier install, DL'd BT desktop Help and re-installed it. . . and I'm still at the same stage as always, with a Firefox browser page that's open and completely blank and has been for the past 30 minutes. The URL is:
file:///C:/Program%20Files/BT%20Broadband%20Desktop%20Help/btbb/Start.html
Repeated page re-loading gets nowhere. Malwarebytes PRO is turned OFF to prevent any possibility of blocking and the antivirus is termporaily SUSPENDED. This PC runs on Windows standard firewall but even turning that OFF doesn't get the page to load. Copying the address into Internet Explorer in case there's a Firefox problem merely results in Firefox being opened and the same blank page running there.
7) After all that. . . Connection lost yet again and this time, Windows cannot connect at all. It reports that the "wireless network security key is not correct". I happen to know that it is, because this is maybe the 20th time it has reported this in the past 10 days and every time I have to key in the "correct" key all over again. . . at which point Windows still says it isn't correct and cannot repair.
Turning off the computer completely, unplugging from the wall, holding in the power switch for a full minute to clear the circuits, traipsing up and dowen three flights of stairs to turn off the hub, then wait, then turn the power back onm again. . . Ah, wot fun times I'm having here with my particular versioin of Infinity (as in, an infinity of connectivcity problems.)
Summary: I seem to be being simultaneously hit with one issue after another.
I'm bewildered as to why ever since Infinity was installed here, my upload speed is generally faster than my download speed. I'm not happy with endless Internet connection failures though am thinking that Vista is playing a large part here with its "wrong security key" and unending 'Local Only / Limited Connection' failures. I do miss my Netgear router and the ability to access a fantastic help menu and re-boot directly from the desktop without having to keep going up and down three flights of sdtairs to do so (I haven't been able to find out how toe access the BT Hub remotely.)
Above all though: I'm really tired of repeatedly trying to run freshly downloaded and installed BT Desktop Help software but getting no further than a blank page because the program has stalled.
If anyone has any advice / suggestions, other than to buy a carrier pigeon, that'd be much appreciated.
Thanks.

Thanks again to John and gg30340. Here's an update:
1) BT Desktop Help removed completely from this computer. The uninstaller itself mopped up everything, which surprised me. But anyway.
2) Bt Home Hub manager set up and working. Had to input serial number and create new password. All of this sounds fairly easy and would be if one had the device near the desk. But the idiots who built this property shoved the BT master socket inside the garage next to the door. Our two home computers are on the third floor. To ensure the wireless signal strength is OK, the Hub and Infinity module/device/whatever it's called are on a high shelf. It's a major job to even reach the darn things, never mind read the labels seeing as how the BT Infinity engineer was good enough to tidy up the cabling and make a very tight connection to the wall socket.
3) I had hoped to be able to back up the Hub's settings, seeing as the software provides for Advanced Settings / System / Backup. But not on mine (Hub 3.0). All that System allows is choosing which internet clock to define the accurate time. Everything else in System is just a pattern of short lines as if trying to indicate that there's some text there but it's invisible.This is now my second encounter with BT software which, for whatever reason, isn't functioning as it should on this PC.
4) Hub reset to factory fresh, according to BT guide.
5) Reset appears to have achieved nothing apart from requiring the password to be popped in again. After reset, it wasn't even possible to connect to the hub manager. Internet connectivity was eventually established for all of 30 seconds and then, gone.
6) Computer was shut down and then booted anew. Internet connectivity is still. . . dreadful. One minute everything's fine and then, literally,. the next minute a webpage won't load. Even opening the Hub Manager has taken three attempts, i.e., disconnecting from the Internet, re-connecting, failing, and trying twice more until success. Yet all the time these failures are occurring, the tray icon is showing a steady, unwavering green icon for Local and Internet access -- despite the fact, there manifestly isn't any.
7) Speedtest. net tests are actually showing upload and download 'trajectories' going slower and slower and finally halting at some point on the arc, then after a period of up to 30 seconds, suddenly becoming animated again. Speed test results with broadband speed checker UK and Think Broadband's checker are so at variance with one another, and with Speedtest, net, that it seems all three are using different technologies in pursuit of the same thing. Either way, upload speeds continue to be much, much faster than download speeds, a state of affairs I certainly have never encountered before.
8) Speedtest net tests taken in the past 10 minutes, with one test following on from its predecessor, begin at 8.24 down/8.88 up, followed by 5.24 down / 6.40 up, followed by a mind-numbingly lonnnnng 0.62 down / 8.70 up -- in other words, a continuous yo-yoin g of Internet connectivity to the pooint that it actually might as well not even be here (I've had to make five attempts just to get on to this forum. . .)
9) BT Speedtest will necessitate disconnection of everything downstairs and all boxes being lugged up here. This is actually going to require uncoililng tied-off cabling and hanging off a stepladder to do so -- though I surely can't be the only person in Britain who doesn't have a nice, handy BT master socket in their study or lounge. That said though: until we switched to Infinity, we *never* experienced these kinds of horrendous connectivity problems and never had need to unplug the Netgear router downstairs and bring it upstairs to connect directly to tjhe desktop PC so BT's own test could be run.
I'll just have to get to work dismantling stuff tomorrow. However, I have to say that after a factory re-set which has changed nothing at all, I'm beginning to think there's a problem with the BT line itself (hence why I'm happy to follow the advice here, though less than happy at the prospect of the messing about involved.)
Thanks, you two, for your patient help, and also for clarifying the situation re the three signal paths being shown on inSSIDer. At least I know that's usual now! And now, hopefully, when I press 'Post', I won't be faced with an endlessly spinning Firefox circle culminating in what may well be, or seem to be, the 57,938th time today of seeing "Page Not Found". . .

Bt desktop help

Is there any information about the update for desktop help in respect of internet explorer 11, since I downloaded this have been unable to access the desktop help, anything on the horizon yet?

See http://community.bt.com/t5/Other-BB-Queries/Desktop-upgrade/m-p/1081680#M70360
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
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BT Desktop Help POP Up

I keep getting a POP up stating that my connection is not giving ultimate performance.
This has only started today.
So far I have rejected offers of help from BT Desktop Help, but how do I stop the POP up which is quite annoying!

To be honest I have no idea but I would run a speed check and if that is coming back with your normal speed and everything else appears as normal I would not worry to much about it.
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I don't and never have had Desktop help installed so I don't know the workings of it. Perhaps there is a "preferences" or "tools" page that you can go into and turn off the pop up.

Bt desktop help pccmservice

I just updated bt desktop help as it kept popping up to tell me to update it but it seems to have instilled pcCMService.exe which my virus checker is unhappy about. Should this file be installed as part of the desktop help or should I delete it?
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I would not install it. It can be used to install a virus onto your system. In this case it may be being used bt BT to install the desktop helper. Having said that I would also not install desktop helper. It is not needed. Your system will run perfectly without it and if you have any problems you can always find help on this site.

Antivirus & Firewall in BT BB Desktop Help

I have installed the BT Broadband Desktop Help software successfully.
I don't have any problems with my computer but was interested to see if there were any tweeks in the BT Desktop Help.
My system is fine and as a system builder I knew it was.
Looking at the "PC Health Check" in the BT Desktop Help it says:-
"Your system does not have a proper firewall application installed. Please see the link below under 'Additional Tools' for help in fixing this problem".
"Your system does not have a proper antivirus application installed. Please see the link below under 'Additional Tools' for help in fixing this problem".
I do have the BT NetProtect Plus software installed and up-to-date.
Is this an error within the Desktop Help software?
I am not really bothered by it but just wondering if anyone else has spotted this error?
If you have a fault then the fault is your end.

Haven't spotted the error as I don't use the Desktop help. The perceived wisdom amongst most here is that it causes more problems than it solves. you can manage the hub using your browser - 192.168.1.254 for the home page.

Recently updated my iphone 4s software. now it won't sync w/ itunes, says i need updated itunes. i updated itunes... now it says that my desktop software is old and can't run new itunes. Yet, i cant update my computer either. PLEASE HELP!!!! UGHH

recently updated my iphone 4s software. now it won't sync w/ itunes, says i need updated itunes. i updated itunes... now it says that my desktop software is old and can't run new itunes. Yet, i cant update my computer either. PLEASE HELP!!!! UGHH

Why can't you update your computer operating system ("desktop software")? What software would that be?

HT1338 Trying to update my desktop software... Help!

Trying to update my desktop software. I currently have OS X Version 10.5.8, I need a version 10.6.8 or higher. I tried with the Apple icon but says "software update doesn't have any new software for your computer at this time." Any advise anyone?

Hi Jimmy,
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Software update and iLife help not working in Admin account

For the last few weeks (maybe since iLife 11 was installed) software update and iLife help has quit working on the single administration account on my iMac. All works fine on the secondary accounts.
If I try to use software update it says everything is up to date, even though I know there are updates available that can be seen if checking from a different account on the machine. In iLife, if I try to access the help files it tells me I need to download them. I click to download and after a few seconds it takes me back to the front help page and I then go through the entire process again but the help download never happens. On secondary accounts the help files work no problem.
I've tried many of the tips for deleting helpfile plists, but nothing seems to work for me.
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It would be much appreciated!

Since the issue is specific to your original user account, you can proceed in two ways. One is to log into your new account, make a list of the preference files (plists) located in /username/Library/Preferences/, including any in the ByHost subfolder, log back into the original account, move everything on that other account's list from the original account's Preferences folder into a newly created folder on the Desktop, log out and back in, and see if the problem goes away. If so, you can copy the ones in the Desktop folder (one at time) back into /Preferences/, restart, and see if the problem returns. If so, you've identified the corrupt/conflicting one. Continue with all of them until isolating the bad ones. That'll save you the trouble of resetting preferences.
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Error while updating desktop & device software

I want to update my BB 9780 software (actual software version 6.0 bundle 1306 to bundle 2554) using the desktop software. When initializing the update I get following messages: - an updated Blackberry desktop software component must be installed before you can continue After clicking on install I get following error message: - there was an error updating your software: an error has occured while downloading the BlackBerry Desktop Software. Please try again. I manually re-installed the desktop software but the error keeps on popping up. Tx for Help. Cozze

i tried this one & it worked
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BT Broadband Desktop Help Update ~ a problem.

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post my question, but here goes:
In the past few days the following has occurred and I am finding it irritating, so I am hoping you can give me advice as to a cure.
I switch on my PC and a pop-up window appears, captioned BT Broadband Desktop Help Update, advising me there is an update available. I click OK and it downloads / installs the update. Finally the window advises the BT Broadband Desktop Help has been successfully updated and I click the Finish button.
However, the next time I switch on my PC I am once again advised it needs updating and I go through the whole routine again.
Question: how do I stop this happening?
BTW I do not want to uninstall the software as, in the past, it has been very helpful.
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Thank you for your continued interest in this matter.
Current situation: whem I switch on the PC I no longer get the pop-up window reminding me to update the s/w. However, if I run the s/w the IE page tells me I need to update, which I do but it still tells me to perform an update.
Thus I decided to uninstall the package (followed by a re-instal) and now find I can't carry this out using Add/Remove programs as it starts to remove and then freezes.
I am therefore going to make a fresh posting asking for an alternate method of uninstallation ~ I have carried out a Forum search but found nothing of any relevance.

Can't update phone + Desktop Software error

So just recently my phone's been acting really strange. The battery of the phone used to last me 2 days but now it only lasts 5 hours. Also the back of the phone (below the battery to be precise) has started to become hot to the touch. (I have replaced the battery and it still has the same problem.) Today, I went to the 'Orange' store to see if they had any solutions. They told me to download the blackberry desktop software and try to update the package software of my phone.
So I got the software, backed up my phone, then I tried to update my phone.
This is where it gets weird. I was notified to update from '6.0 bundle 695' (I've never updated it since I bought the phone.) to '6.0 bundle 2949'. So, as prompted, I clicked update. Before it updates, I get told that "An updated BlackBerry desktop software component must be installed before you can continue."
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Hi and Welcome to the Community!
The simplest way is to, on a PC (you cannot do this on MAC):
1) Uninstall, from your PC, any BB OS packages
2) Make sure you have the most recent BB Desktop Software already installed
http://us.blackberry.com/apps-software/desktop/?lid=us:bboftwareesktopSoftware&lpos=us:bboftware
3) Download and install, to your PC, the BB OS package you desire:
http://us.blackberry.com/support/downloads/download_sites.jsp
4) If that OS package is from a carrier other than the carrier for which your BB was originally manufactured, then delete, on your PC, all copies of VENDOR.XML...there will be at least one, and perhaps 2, and they will be located in or similarly to (it changes based on your Windows version) these folders:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Research In Motion\AppLoader
C:\Users\(your Windows UserName)\AppData\Roaming\Research In Motion\BlackBerry\Loader XML
5) Launch the Desktop Software and connect your BB...the software should offer you the OS package you installed to your PC. If, during the process, your BB presents a "507" error, simply unplug the USB cord from the BB and re-insert it...don't do anything else...this should allow the install to continue.
Don't forget to backup.
Good luck and let us know!
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Desktop Manager gone after updating to Desktop Software

I am unable to find Desktop Manager after Updating to Desktop Software Version 6. Please How do I Install Apps using Desktop Software.
Are Desktop Manager and Desktop Software the same??.. Help Please
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Hi and Welcome to the Forums!
Please see this KB for hopefully useful information.
Good luck and let us know!
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