Guest John Posted August 30, 2008 Posted August 30, 2008 I have Auto-update set for "Notify me but let me choose when to download." A month or so ago, SP3 was offered and I didn't dl it right away, just left the shield sitting there. About two weeks ago, I decided I had the time to install it so I clicked on the "Download." The shield went away and I assumed the update would be available for installation shortly. But two weeks later it still hasn't shown up. Is it normal for the SP3 update to take so long to download? Reply-to address is real John
Guest Bruce Hagen Posted August 30, 2008 Posted August 30, 2008 Re: Where is SP3? "John" <fakeaddress@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:f4dib41lktbci8rvos37a48p8quh27o794@4ax.com... >I have Auto-update set for "Notify me but let me choose when to > download." A month or so ago, SP3 was offered and I didn't dl it > right away, just left the shield sitting there. > > About two weeks ago, I decided I had the time to install it so I > clicked on the "Download." The shield went away and I assumed the > update would be available for installation shortly. But two weeks > later it still hasn't shown up. > > Is it normal for the SP3 update to take so long to download? > > Reply-to address is real > John Right click on My Computer. Does it show Service Pack 2 or 3? If you go to Windows Updates, does it show in your history? Is it available when you click Custom, (not Express)? If no to all of the above: Steps to take before you install Windows XP Service Pack 3: http://support.microsoft.com:80/kb/950717 WinXP SP3 - Read all prerequisites for a successful installation http://msmvps.com/blogs/harrywaldron/archive/2008/05/08/windows-xp-sp3-read-all-prerequisites-for-a-successful-installation.aspx Release Notes for Windows XP Service Pack 3 http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/d/8/cd8cc719-7d5a-40d3-a802-e4057aa8c631/relnotes.htm Download Windows XP Service Pack 3 here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5B33B5A8-5E76-401F-BE08-1E1555D4F3D4&displaylang=en -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA
Guest RJK Posted August 30, 2008 Posted August 30, 2008 Re: Where is SP3? http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsxp/sp3/default.mspx ...read this first ! http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsxp/sp3/default.mspx ....tried "Windows Update" ? :-) regards, Richard "John" <fakeaddress@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:f4dib41lktbci8rvos37a48p8quh27o794@4ax.com... >I have Auto-update set for "Notify me but let me choose when to > download." A month or so ago, SP3 was offered and I didn't dl it > right away, just left the shield sitting there. > > About two weeks ago, I decided I had the time to install it so I > clicked on the "Download." The shield went away and I assumed the > update would be available for installation shortly. But two weeks > later it still hasn't shown up. > > Is it normal for the SP3 update to take so long to download? > > Reply-to address is real > John
Guest PA Bear [MS MVP] Posted August 30, 2008 Posted August 30, 2008 Re: Where is SP3? [Crossposted to Windows Update newsgroup] Check your WindowsUpdate.log (%windir%\WindowsUpdate.log) for errors associated with the download/install. How to read the WindowsUpdate.log file http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902093 Absent any serious numerical Errors in your WindowsUpdate.log, you may be seeing a delay caused by excessive demand on the servers ("Update is not allowed to download due to regulation"). It can take quite a while for AU to download a Service Pack when so many updates were released on that month's Patch Tuesday. You can try downloading/installing WinXP SP3 via Windows/Microsoft Update: Understand that by doing so, you're pushing all the Automatic Updates users further back in the queue (which may explain, at least in part, why Automatic Updates hasn't brought them in for you yet). WinXP SP3 - Read all prerequisites for a successful installation http://msmvps.com/blogs/harrywaldron/archive/2008/05/08/windows-xp-sp3-read-all-prerequisites-for-a-successful-installation.aspx Free unlimited installation and compatibility support is available for Windows XP, but only for Service Pack 3 (SP3), until 14 Apr-09. Chat and e-mail support is available only in the United States and Canada. Go to http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?gprid=1173 | select "Windows XP" then select "Windows XP Service Pack 3" -- Windows Update-specific newsgroup: http://news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsupdate ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 John wrote: > I have Auto-update set for "Notify me but let me choose when to > download." A month or so ago, SP3 was offered and I didn't dl it > right away, just left the shield sitting there. > > About two weeks ago, I decided I had the time to install it so I > clicked on the "Download." The shield went away and I assumed the > update would be available for installation shortly. But two weeks > later it still hasn't shown up. > > Is it normal for the SP3 update to take so long to download? > > Reply-to address is real > John
Guest ALan Posted August 30, 2008 Posted August 30, 2008 RE: Where is SP3? DONT INSTALL SP3 IT IS A DISASTER MY COMPUTER IS DEAD WON:T REBOOT< MICROSOFT CANT HELP WHAT A MESS. "John" wrote: > I have Auto-update set for "Notify me but let me choose when to > download." A month or so ago, SP3 was offered and I didn't dl it > right away, just left the shield sitting there. > > About two weeks ago, I decided I had the time to install it so I > clicked on the "Download." The shield went away and I assumed the > update would be available for installation shortly. But two weeks > later it still hasn't shown up. > > Is it normal for the SP3 update to take so long to download? > > Reply-to address is real > John >
Guest RJK Posted August 30, 2008 Posted August 30, 2008 Re: Where is SP3? Perhaps you should have read this first, ....and fully backed up your hard drive, so that you could easily and quickly restore it, if and when it all went wrong ! http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950717 regards, Richard "ALan" <ALan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:A7D93558-25AC-4D08-932F-8F7CFD9FCBEB@microsoft.com... > DONT INSTALL SP3 IT IS A DISASTER MY COMPUTER IS DEAD WON:T REBOOT< > MICROSOFT > CANT HELP WHAT A MESS. > > "John" wrote: > >> I have Auto-update set for "Notify me but let me choose when to >> download." A month or so ago, SP3 was offered and I didn't dl it >> right away, just left the shield sitting there. >> >> About two weeks ago, I decided I had the time to install it so I >> clicked on the "Download." The shield went away and I assumed the >> update would be available for installation shortly. But two weeks >> later it still hasn't shown up. >> >> Is it normal for the SP3 update to take so long to download? >> >> Reply-to address is real >> John >>
Guest Robert Aldwinckle Posted August 30, 2008 Posted August 30, 2008 Re: Where is SP3? (posted from WU) > John wrote: >> Is it normal for the SP3 update to take so long to download? See if you have the same symptom that I noticed. You need to use bitsadmin.exe from a cmd window. That utility is available from the XP Support Tools download. So, if you find that bitsadmin /list /allusers /verbose shows you that a download was suspended you could /resume it (referencing its {GUID} jobid). Depending on how far along the download is, resuming it may get the whole thing downloaded or it may just clear the job queue. In the latter case though it seems to let AU/BITS start a new job normally and possibly finish it normally. In one case that I did, a second (automatic) retry also got into a suspended state, so I did the same /resume procedure on that piece too. I don't know if BITS is ever told by AU to get out of that state automatically but I didn't want to wait another month before trying to force it along that way. ; ) BTW others I have suggested this procedure to have found that they apparently had jobs which were not in such a clean state as the one that I am referring to. The procedure for dealing with those is less clear. Diana [MSFT] suggested in one case to clear the queue by deleting BITS ..dat files. http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsupdate&mid=84cddd2c-a2b6-44d9-89b0-f37067b985d9&sloc=en-us HTH Robert Aldwinckle --- "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message news:%23oDj1ouCJHA.2292@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > [Crossposted to Windows Update newsgroup] > > Check your WindowsUpdate.log (%windir%\WindowsUpdate.log) for errors associated with the download/install. > > How to read the WindowsUpdate.log file > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902093 > > Absent any serious numerical Errors in your WindowsUpdate.log, you may be seeing a delay caused by excessive demand on the servers > ("Update is not allowed to download due to regulation"). It can take quite a while for AU to download a Service Pack when so many > updates were released on that month's Patch Tuesday. > > You can try downloading/installing WinXP SP3 via Windows/Microsoft Update: Understand that by doing so, you're pushing all the > Automatic Updates users further back in the queue (which may explain, at least in part, why Automatic Updates hasn't brought them > in for you yet). > > WinXP SP3 - Read all prerequisites for a successful installation > http://msmvps.com/blogs/harrywaldron/archive/2008/05/08/windows-xp-sp3-read-all-prerequisites-for-a-successful-installation.aspx > > Free unlimited installation and compatibility support is available for Windows XP, but only for Service Pack 3 (SP3), until 14 > Apr-09. Chat and e-mail support is available only in the United States and Canada. Go to > http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?gprid=1173 | select "Windows XP" then select "Windows XP Service Pack 3" > -- > Windows Update-specific newsgroup: http://news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsupdate > > ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) > MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 > > > John wrote: >> I have Auto-update set for "Notify me but let me choose when to >> download." A month or so ago, SP3 was offered and I didn't dl it >> right away, just left the shield sitting there. >> >> About two weeks ago, I decided I had the time to install it so I >> clicked on the "Download." The shield went away and I assumed the >> update would be available for installation shortly. But two weeks >> later it still hasn't shown up. >> >> Is it normal for the SP3 update to take so long to download? >> >> Reply-to address is real >> John >
Guest Unknown Posted August 31, 2008 Posted August 31, 2008 Re: Where is SP3? The real disaster, as you will eventually learn, is YOU and NOT SP3. "ALan" <ALan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:A7D93558-25AC-4D08-932F-8F7CFD9FCBEB@microsoft.com... > DONT INSTALL SP3 IT IS A DISASTER MY COMPUTER IS DEAD WON:T REBOOT< > MICROSOFT > CANT HELP WHAT A MESS. > > "John" wrote: > >> I have Auto-update set for "Notify me but let me choose when to >> download." A month or so ago, SP3 was offered and I didn't dl it >> right away, just left the shield sitting there. >> >> About two weeks ago, I decided I had the time to install it so I >> clicked on the "Download." The shield went away and I assumed the >> update would be available for installation shortly. But two weeks >> later it still hasn't shown up. >> >> Is it normal for the SP3 update to take so long to download? >> >> Reply-to address is real >> John >>
Guest Frank-FL Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 Re: Where is SP3? "John" <fakeaddress@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:f4dib41lktbci8rvos37a48p8quh27o794@4ax.com... >I have Auto-update set for "Notify me but let me choose when to > download." A month or so ago, SP3 was offered and I didn't dl it > right away, just left the shield sitting there. > > About two weeks ago, I decided I had the time to install it so I > clicked on the "Download." The shield went away and I assumed the > update would be available for installation shortly. But two weeks > later it still hasn't shown up. > > Is it normal for the SP3 update to take so long to download? > > Reply-to address is real > John <http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5B33B5A8-5E76-401F-BE08-1E1555D4F3D4&displaylang=en> Just download it and install it. Windows update leaves a lot to be desired especially with one this big.
Guest Skyman Posted September 19, 2008 Posted September 19, 2008 RE: Where is SP3? My laptop does auto updates and when I did the update and came back to my laptop after a few minutes, my laptop went dead. It has power, but the screen is "black" and my mouse doesn't even come on. Why did this update distroy my laptop? Have have no clue how to make it even work. I push the power on and all I get is my green lights saying I have power and the Disk drive is being read. I have important music editing software on this laptop and this worries me A LOT!!! Skyman "ALan" wrote: > DONT INSTALL SP3 IT IS A DISASTER MY COMPUTER IS DEAD WON:T REBOOT< MICROSOFT > CANT HELP WHAT A MESS. > > "John" wrote: > > > I have Auto-update set for "Notify me but let me choose when to > > download." A month or so ago, SP3 was offered and I didn't dl it > > right away, just left the shield sitting there. > > > > About two weeks ago, I decided I had the time to install it so I > > clicked on the "Download." The shield went away and I assumed the > > update would be available for installation shortly. But two weeks > > later it still hasn't shown up. > > > > Is it normal for the SP3 update to take so long to download? > > > > Reply-to address is real > > John > >
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