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Daave
My co-worker's wife asked me to look at her Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop.
It turns out her brother was messing with the Dial-Up settings for some
reason, but I fixed them.
However, I noticed that this Dell, which is at SP level 2 had the yellow
shield with the exclamation point in the systray. Apparently, SP3 had
been downloaded and was ready to be installed. My friend, knowing I'd
probably have better luck than he or his wife would have, asked me if I
would mind installing it, and I agreed to do so. I ran into an odd, but
unfortunately common problem (the stupid "cannot copy the Beethov9.wma
file" issue). It was too much effort to force the square peg into the
round hole, so I figured I'd just install the usual way from my Service
Pack 3 CD, which went smoothly.
But I'm still getting the Windows Update alert. I noticed also that the
Download folder (I'm pretty sure that's where the *other* SP3
installation file is located) in C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution is
quite large (521 MB). What is best practice in this situation? I'd like
to simply delete the contents of this folder, but are there any other
steps? I don't want to badly bork any future Windows Updates!
It turns out her brother was messing with the Dial-Up settings for some
reason, but I fixed them.
However, I noticed that this Dell, which is at SP level 2 had the yellow
shield with the exclamation point in the systray. Apparently, SP3 had
been downloaded and was ready to be installed. My friend, knowing I'd
probably have better luck than he or his wife would have, asked me if I
would mind installing it, and I agreed to do so. I ran into an odd, but
unfortunately common problem (the stupid "cannot copy the Beethov9.wma
file" issue). It was too much effort to force the square peg into the
round hole, so I figured I'd just install the usual way from my Service
Pack 3 CD, which went smoothly.
But I'm still getting the Windows Update alert. I noticed also that the
Download folder (I'm pretty sure that's where the *other* SP3
installation file is located) in C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution is
quite large (521 MB). What is best practice in this situation? I'd like
to simply delete the contents of this folder, but are there any other
steps? I don't want to badly bork any future Windows Updates!