updates fail to install

[Guest]

reinstalled windows xp home (i should have done a clean install, but 'updated')
auto updates informed me i need 37 items
it downloaded them all
it tried to install them
all failed to install
auto updates informed me i need 37 items
....

 

[Claymore]

reinstalled windows xp home (i should have done a clean install, but 'updated')
auto updates informed me i need 37 items
it downloaded them all
it tried to install them
all failed to install
auto updates informed me i need 37 items
...

Try running this troubleshooter:

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/wusupport

 

[PA Bear]

What problems did you think would be resolved by doing a Repair Install,
Dog?

Try this:

1. First install the newly released 'standalone' version of Windows Update
Agent 3.0, v7.0.6000.374
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932494

Direct Download links:

x86-based versions of Windows (most users)
http://download.windowsupdate.com/v7/windowsupdate/redist/standalone/windowsupdateagent30-x86.exe

x64-based versions of Windows
http://download.windowsupdate.com/v7/windowsupdate/redist/standalone/windowsupdateagent30-x64.exe

Itanium-based versions of Windows
http://download.windowsupdate.com/v7/windowsupdate/redist/standalone/windowsupdateagent30-ia64.exe

2. Now (re)install this (updated) fix:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927891

NB: Windows Update/Automatic Updates started offering 927891 on 22 May-07.
If "Update for [Windows XP] (KB927891)" is listed in Add/Remove Programs
(make sure Show Updates box is checked), it's already installed. cf.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/927891.mspx

3. Reboot.
--
Windows Update-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsupdate

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)

 

[Rock]

reinstalled windows xp home (i should have done a clean install, but
'updated')
auto updates informed me i need 37 items
it downloaded them all
it tried to install them
all failed to install
auto updates informed me i need 37 items

Best place to post issues with windows update is the windows update
newsgroup.
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...655-a5d5-4c07-bdb0-90caf9f30c42&lang=en&cr=us

 

[Plato]

reinstalled windows xp home (i should have done a clean install, but 'updated')
auto updates informed me i need 37 items
it downloaded them all
it tried to install them
all failed to install
auto updates informed me i need 37 items

http://www.bootdisk.com/xptop20.htm#4

 

[Guest]

Thnx Plato... might be what i need

http://www.bootdisk.com/xptop20.htm#4

 

[Guest]

nothing i tried worked
so..... i found an 'updates package' elsewhere and used it. VOILLA... the
few remaining updates suddenly worked thru Win Auto Update! it's fixed!

 

[Charles W.]

Dogzilla,
Where did you find this "updates package"? I am having the exact problem you
are.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Repost:

Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update, from Microsoft
Update, or by using Automatic Updates after you repair a Windows XP
installation:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144