Failed Microsoft Automatic Updates

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There seems to be a problem many are having with the most recent critical
security updates.

Automatic Update failed to install these updates on my PC over a dozen times.

After finally installing now I receive the error message that Microsoft.NET
Framework v1.1.4322 Update is preventing my PC from entering standby mode.

Anyone have a solution?

This has never happened to me before.
 
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Guest

Follow the direction in this note found in the Windows Update news group.
There were a lot of people affected by this problem:

Subject: Re: .NET Updates failed 7/12/2007 1:36 PM PST

By: georgef In: microsoft.public.windowsupdate

Here is EXACTLY what you do to solve this problem for Windows XP 32
bit. If you happen to have a rarer 64 bit version, server OS, or
SOMETHING else follow the same general instructions but get the
version of the files appropriate for your system but first, Microsoft
has pissed me off beyond belief. I looked in my log and this same
thing happened 6/2006...thanks MSFT for torturing us again this year.
I thought it was a familiar feeling...nice branding...this is a huge
humiliation for their .NET team in my opinion or perhaps we should
start calling them the .NOT team...anyway....

Steps:
1) Go to the control panel and select the add/remove software tool
then TRY and remove everything with .NET in the name. If you can
remove everything go to step 3. If you cannot remove everything go to
step 2.

2) Go and download the windows installer clean up tool at:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

run the windows installer clean up tool and BE CAREFUL to only select
the .NET items from the list and remove them. Note: this will likely
leave the names as "dead links" in the Add/Remove Software list
(ahhh ...Microsoft thoroughness at its best) but not to worry they
will do no harm and will get fixed when we finish. It's possible to
clean them up but let's stay out of the registry :)

3) Go and get the file "dotnetfx.exe" this is ".NET 1.1" from:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...E3-F589-4842-8157-034D1E7CF3A3&displaylang=en

install it.

4) Go and get the file "NDP1.1sp1-KB867460-X86.exe" this is the ".NET
1.1 service pack 1" from: my personal website (JUST KIDDING,
RELAX...get everything of course from a microsoft.com domain)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...4F-088E-40B2-BBDB-A83353618B38&displaylang=en

install it.

5) Install the SECURITY patch, the dreaded KB928366, we have all grown
to hate. You can install it from the Windows Update program (be sure
to ONLY select the KB928366 patch and NOTHING else, we dont want to
put back 2.0 or 3.0 yet). It's OK go ahead and click ...it will be
alright...you can do it...it's just one more time... :)

6) Re-run the Windows Update and you can add back in .NET 2.0 and 3.0

7) Post to thank me...

Now WHY hasn't Microsoft posted instructions yet? .... What is UP?!

Good night!

George
 
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Guest

Jim said:
Follow the direction in this note found in the Windows Update news group.
There were a lot of people affected by this problem:

Subject: Re: .NET Updates failed 7/12/2007 1:36 PM PST

By: georgef In: microsoft.public.windowsupdate

Here is EXACTLY what you do to solve this problem for Windows XP 32
bit. If you happen to have a rarer 64 bit version, server OS, or
SOMETHING else follow the same general instructions but get the
version of the files appropriate for your system but first, Microsoft
has pissed me off beyond belief. I looked in my log and this same
thing happened 6/2006...thanks MSFT for torturing us again this year.
I thought it was a familiar feeling...nice branding...this is a huge
humiliation for their .NET team in my opinion or perhaps we should
start calling them the .NOT team...anyway....

Steps:
1) Go to the control panel and select the add/remove software tool
then TRY and remove everything with .NET in the name. If you can
remove everything go to step 3. If you cannot remove everything go to
step 2.

2) Go and download the windows installer clean up tool at:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

run the windows installer clean up tool and BE CAREFUL to only select
the .NET items from the list and remove them. Note: this will likely
leave the names as "dead links" in the Add/Remove Software list
(ahhh ...Microsoft thoroughness at its best) but not to worry they
will do no harm and will get fixed when we finish. It's possible to
clean them up but let's stay out of the registry :)

3) Go and get the file "dotnetfx.exe" this is ".NET 1.1" from:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...E3-F589-4842-8157-034D1E7CF3A3&displaylang=en

install it.

4) Go and get the file "NDP1.1sp1-KB867460-X86.exe" this is the ".NET
1.1 service pack 1" from: my personal website (JUST KIDDING,
RELAX...get everything of course from a microsoft.com domain)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...4F-088E-40B2-BBDB-A83353618B38&displaylang=en

install it.

5) Install the SECURITY patch, the dreaded KB928366, we have all grown
to hate. You can install it from the Windows Update program (be sure
to ONLY select the KB928366 patch and NOTHING else, we dont want to
put back 2.0 or 3.0 yet). It's OK go ahead and click ...it will be
alright...you can do it...it's just one more time... :)

6) Re-run the Windows Update and you can add back in .NET 2.0 and 3.0

7) Post to thank me...

Now WHY hasn't Microsoft posted instructions yet? .... What is UP?!

Good night!

George
 
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Guest

Dear Jim:

Thanks for the reply!

To George. thanks as well!

My first time on the message boards. Glad to know users are at least
willing to help with problems. Microsoft cares not!

Bill
 
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Guest

I have this problem -- which has blossomed into a much bigger problem, have
implemented the "solution", and still have the bigger problem.

My computer is only 6 months old, I'm running XP Pro SP2 with an AMD 64X2
Dual Core and 4GB of RAM. I had the .NET problems in Jan. 07 when I got the
new computer and Microsoft tech. support had me engage in the "fix" outlined
by George and Jim at that time.

Like everyone else, my automatic updates kept failing to install throughout
this week, including my Office 2003 updates. As of yesterday morning, I can
no longer run any of the Office 2003 programs. Sometimes they will start to
run, then crash. Other times, I get the error message "This patch package
could not be opened. Verify that the patch package exists and that you can
access it, or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid
Windows Installer patch package."

I have uninstalled and reinstalled Office 2003 before and after again
applying the .NET "fix",without any success.

I have tried the .NET fix several times now. At the moment, my Add/Remove
program shows 1.1, 2.0, 3.0 (and it's hotfix) as installed. However, the
Windows Installer Clean-up Utility only shows 1.1 and 3.0. So it seems I'm
actually missing the 2.0 and it's hotfix. Nothing I do seems to solve this
problem.

Now when I reboot, the check disk program keeps coming up telling me it
needs to check a disk for conformity. I have allowed the program to run
several times, but it doesn't find any errors. I have run other exhaustive
diagnostics and they come back clean each time. Periodically, I also see a
yield sign with an exclamation point in my taskbar, but each time I have
tried to click on it to see what it means, it instantly disappears. The only
reference I could find in the knowledgebase for such a warning related to SQL
server 2005. While I periodically use Access, it's not a staple of my
activities and we don't run SQL server.

All of the other computers on our small network run XP Pro SP2 and Office
2003 as well. Not a single one of the others has had any problems.

I would be really grateful if someone could tell me how to solve this
without having to reformat and start from scratch. Thanks!
 
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Ms .net 2.0

I followed Jim's instructions until "get dotnetfx.exe". That file was unavailable, so I searched MS for it and downloaded the .NET 2.0 version. I installed it and now things are working fine. However, I have not used MS Update to get .NET 3.0 yet.
 
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Microsoft..

I'm just starting work to fix this issue, but just needed to take the time to state how ****ed off I am at Microsoft. I switched to mac a month back and have been in computing bliss until my xp machine decides to break while "updating". Ridiculous.

[EDIT] Problem fixed, unistalled/reinstalled .NET, still hating Microsoft
 
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