Guest Jeremy XP Posted August 25, 2007 Posted August 25, 2007 I went to the Microsoft Update part of the site and it said that I had the high-priority update to XP Service Pack 2 to install. The information read Download size (total): 0 KB * Estimated time at your connection speed: 0 minutes * (*Downloaded ready to install) so I clicked on the install update button, accepted the terms, and it seemingly began to install (i.e. the green install bar moved all the way down) but as soon as it finished, it said that Windows XP Service Pack 2 had not been installed. Does anyone know what is wrong or how to fix this?
Guest George Hester Posted August 25, 2007 Posted August 25, 2007 Hi Jeremy. The best way to verify what the Windows Update procedure failure is telling you is to obtain the update itself downloaded to your machine and install it. Now the likely place for the SP2 that you have already downloaded is in C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download. You should find a exe file in there called WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe or you can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=049c9dbe-3b8e-4f30- 8245-9e368d3cdb5a&DisplayLang=en Run that. It will likely fail but the error message you get will be more explanatory then what you get through the Windows Update site. Post that error message here. -- George Hester ________________________________ "Jeremy XP" <Jeremy XP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:86EA4F6B-4DED-4E0C-ADA1-75163DDBAB64@microsoft.com... > I went to the Microsoft Update part of the site and it said that I had the > high-priority update to XP Service Pack 2 to install. The information read > > Download size (total): 0 KB * > Estimated time at your connection speed: 0 minutes * > (*Downloaded ready to install) > > so I clicked on the install update button, accepted the terms, and it > seemingly began to install (i.e. the green install bar moved all the way > down) but as soon as it finished, it said that Windows XP Service Pack 2 had > not been installed. > > Does anyone know what is wrong or how to fix this?
Guest Peter Foldes Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 Download SP2 from the MS Download site and install manually http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=049C9DBE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/sp2_whattoknow.mspx http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=windowsxpsp2 -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Jeremy XP" <Jeremy XP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:86EA4F6B-4DED-4E0C-ADA1-75163DDBAB64@microsoft.com... >I went to the Microsoft Update part of the site and it said that I had the > high-priority update to XP Service Pack 2 to install. The information read > > Download size (total): 0 KB * > Estimated time at your connection speed: 0 minutes * > (*Downloaded ready to install) > > so I clicked on the install update button, accepted the terms, and it > seemingly began to install (i.e. the green install bar moved all the way > down) but as soon as it finished, it said that Windows XP Service Pack 2 had > not been installed. > > Does anyone know what is wrong or how to fix this?
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