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Guest Frixie
Posted

I have 2 machines that I recently installed a genuine version of

Windows XP

Pro with SP2 slipstreamed into it. I got past the first round of

Windows

updates which downloaded and installed .NET framework, Genuine

Advantage,

etc etc. After a reboot and going back to windows update, 53 files

need

downloading and installing. Mostly security updates for XP. Both

failed at

install. No error codes. Tried it over and over again and it never

installs

and on every reboot, now keeps going out to windows update and tries

to

download all over again. I had to shut off the automatic updates.

 

I upgraded a 3rd machine yesterday at a different location from XP

Home to XP Pro with SP2. Same thing. After the first 3 updates, 60

were to download and install and all 60 failed. What is going on?

 

I googled the problem and some say to uninstall Yahoo Toolbar, some

say to

update JAVA.it's none of those things. No Activex is being blocked.

 

Two machines had Norton Security on them before I started the

download. I

was sure it was blocking something so I downloaded the Norton Removal

Tool

from the Symantec site and uninstalled Norton entirely. The third

machine also has Norton Security which I uninstalled using the Norton

Removal Tool before I even started. No difference, updates still

failed.

 

Now I'm guessing I have registry errors?

 

Any ideas?

Posted

I am having the exact same problem. Any suggestions or help would be

appreciated

 

"Frixie" wrote:

> I have 2 machines that I recently installed a genuine version of

> Windows XP

> Pro with SP2 slipstreamed into it. I got past the first round of

> Windows

> updates which downloaded and installed .NET framework, Genuine

> Advantage,

> etc etc. After a reboot and going back to windows update, 53 files

> need

> downloading and installing. Mostly security updates for XP. Both

> failed at

> install. No error codes. Tried it over and over again and it never

> installs

> and on every reboot, now keeps going out to windows update and tries

> to

> download all over again. I had to shut off the automatic updates.

>

> I upgraded a 3rd machine yesterday at a different location from XP

> Home to XP Pro with SP2. Same thing. After the first 3 updates, 60

> were to download and install and all 60 failed. What is going on?

>

> I googled the problem and some say to uninstall Yahoo Toolbar, some

> say to

> update JAVA.it's none of those things. No Activex is being blocked.

>

> Two machines had Norton Security on them before I started the

> download. I

> was sure it was blocking something so I downloaded the Norton Removal

> Tool

> from the Symantec site and uninstalled Norton entirely. The third

> machine also has Norton Security which I uninstalled using the Norton

> Removal Tool before I even started. No difference, updates still

> failed.

>

> Now I'm guessing I have registry errors?

>

> Any ideas?

>

>

Guest Engel
Posted

Hello Frixie,

 

Doesn't hurt to try this solution.

 

 

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?&lang=en&cr=US&guid=&sloc=en-us&dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.security&p=1&tid=fb171ac4-a746-45ae-b6e1-35f68f2ad7fc&mid=fb171ac4-a746-45ae-b6e1-35f68f2ad7fc

 

I hope that post is helpful.

 

Let us know how it works ºut.

--

 

 

"Frixie" wrote:

> I have 2 machines that I recently installed a genuine version of

> Windows XP

> Pro with SP2 slipstreamed into it. I got past the first round of

> Windows

> updates which downloaded and installed .NET framework, Genuine

> Advantage,

> etc etc. After a reboot and going back to windows update, 53 files

> need

> downloading and installing. Mostly security updates for XP. Both

> failed at

> install. No error codes. Tried it over and over again and it never

> installs

> and on every reboot, now keeps going out to windows update and tries

> to

> download all over again. I had to shut off the automatic updates.

>

> I upgraded a 3rd machine yesterday at a different location from XP

> Home to XP Pro with SP2. Same thing. After the first 3 updates, 60

> were to download and install and all 60 failed. What is going on?

>

> I googled the problem and some say to uninstall Yahoo Toolbar, some

> say to

> update JAVA.it's none of those things. No Activex is being blocked.

>

> Two machines had Norton Security on them before I started the

> download. I

> was sure it was blocking something so I downloaded the Norton Removal

> Tool

> from the Symantec site and uninstalled Norton entirely. The third

> machine also has Norton Security which I uninstalled using the Norton

> Removal Tool before I even started. No difference, updates still

> failed.

>

> Now I'm guessing I have registry errors?

>

> Any ideas?

>

>

Posted

I had been able to download windows updates without any problem, now suddenly

all my updates downloaded in the past are gone and I am unable to redownload

and install any of them. What is going on with windows update? Can anybody

help with this problem? Thank a lot.

 

"Engel" wrote:

> Hello Frixie,

>

> Doesn't hurt to try this solution.

>

>

> http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?&lang=en&cr=US&guid=&sloc=en-us&dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.security&p=1&tid=fb171ac4-a746-45ae-b6e1-35f68f2ad7fc&mid=fb171ac4-a746-45ae-b6e1-35f68f2ad7fc

>

> I hope that post is helpful.

>

> Let us know how it works ºut.

> --

>

>

> "Frixie" wrote:

>

> > I have 2 machines that I recently installed a genuine version of

> > Windows XP

> > Pro with SP2 slipstreamed into it. I got past the first round of

> > Windows

> > updates which downloaded and installed .NET framework, Genuine

> > Advantage,

> > etc etc. After a reboot and going back to windows update, 53 files

> > need

> > downloading and installing. Mostly security updates for XP. Both

> > failed at

> > install. No error codes. Tried it over and over again and it never

> > installs

> > and on every reboot, now keeps going out to windows update and tries

> > to

> > download all over again. I had to shut off the automatic updates.

> >

> > I upgraded a 3rd machine yesterday at a different location from XP

> > Home to XP Pro with SP2. Same thing. After the first 3 updates, 60

> > were to download and install and all 60 failed. What is going on?

> >

> > I googled the problem and some say to uninstall Yahoo Toolbar, some

> > say to

> > update JAVA.it's none of those things. No Activex is being blocked.

> >

> > Two machines had Norton Security on them before I started the

> > download. I

> > was sure it was blocking something so I downloaded the Norton Removal

> > Tool

> > from the Symantec site and uninstalled Norton entirely. The third

> > machine also has Norton Security which I uninstalled using the Norton

> > Removal Tool before I even started. No difference, updates still

> > failed.

> >

> > Now I'm guessing I have registry errors?

> >

> > Any ideas?

> >

> >

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