Windows Updates will not install

[Guest]

I have just got a new PC, and had the hard drive in my previous PC copied
over to the new one.

It runs Windows XP Pro and Office Pro 2003

Windows Updates has downloaded 77 updates but they wont install. My Previous
PC was fully up to date, so I am a little puzzled as to why there are so many
updates to install in the first place.

I have installed the current versions of Windows Advantage and also Windows
Installer. After doing this it appeared that all the updates except 4 of them
had been installed, but i cannot find them and when I rebooted my PC it seems
I am back to where I started.

Please can anyone offer some help on how to solve this problem

Regards

Peter V

 

[PA Bear]

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

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)