Windows Manual Update Issue

[Guest]

I have 5 desktop operating systems that I recently upgraded from Windows 2000
to Windows XP Professional. After the upgrade, whenever I try to manually run
the Windows Update, the program runs the download for the updates but
unsuccessfully installs them. I read on the Techrepublic website about an
issue concerning the RPC service (RPCSS) trying to log on with a network
account instead of the local account after an upgrade. There appears to be
some issue because of Service Pack 2. I changed this setting in the Services
panel to local account, but now everything is grayed out and it still doesn't
work when I try to manually install the updates. I set it to automatically
update but it still won't install the updates after downloading them. The
Windows Installer service is set to automatic and is started but still
nothing. Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[Guest]

If anyone can help me with this issue I would sincerely appreciate it!

 

[Steven L Umbach]

I really doubt it has anything to do with RPC. I suggest you post in the
Windowsupdate newsgroup. You could also check the windowsupdate.log file in
\windows directory to see if anything found in it provides a clue.

Steve