Guest neutrino Posted July 30, 2007 Posted July 30, 2007 Can anyone explain/resolve the reason why I can initiate and downlaod windows XP updates - but when it comes to installing them - I get a list (all 82 of them!) Failed to install. " A problem on your computer is preventing updates from being downloaded or installed" but what on earth do I look for to determine what !!?? This is on a new Pc - just installed XP, installed the few programs required, nothign out of the ordinary, but ! updates will not work! I did have a problem earlier where it would not install win3.1 if I remember right, plus one other program -this was when we first tried to update - it had to install these before going in for the full windows update to function, and these failed - but I managed ot locate htem on another site and installed them individually, from then on accessing and runing the Windows Update was good - cept now we're down to this "install" problem! I'v tried taking down firewall and anti-virus - then retrying the instal - still no luck! Any ideas? p-lease .
Guest Uncle Grumpy Posted July 30, 2007 Posted July 30, 2007 Re: Windows update - Failed Updates (failed to install) neutrino <stuartr@bluebottle.com> wrote: >" A problem on your computer is preventing updates from being >downloaded or installed" > >but what on earth do I look for to determine what !!?? ask this in microsoft.public.windowsupdate
Guest MowGreen [MVP] Posted July 30, 2007 Posted July 30, 2007 Re: Windows update - Failed Updates (failed to install) Please post this to the Windows Update newsgroup: http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsupdate&cat=en_US_56d1dd45-de9e-4fc5-9bc1-2d1d0de6daee&lang=en&cr=US Someone there will be glad to lend some assistance, neutrino. MowGreen [MVP 2003-2007] =============== *-343-* FDNY Never Forgotten =============== neutrino wrote: > Can anyone explain/resolve the reason why I can initiate and downlaod > windows XP updates - but when it comes to installing them - I get a > list (all 82 of them!) Failed to install. > " A problem on your computer is preventing updates from being > downloaded or installed" > > but what on earth do I look for to determine what !!?? > > This is on a new Pc - just installed XP, installed the few programs > required, nothign out of the ordinary, but ! updates will not work! I > did have a problem earlier where it would not install win3.1 if I > remember right, plus one other program -this was when we first tried > to update - it had to install these before going in for the full > windows update to function, and these failed - but I managed ot > locate htem on another site and installed them individually, from then > on accessing and runing the Windows Update was good - cept now we're > down to this "install" problem! I'v tried taking down firewall and > anti-virus - then retrying the instal - still no luck! > Any ideas? p-lease . >
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