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Thread ID: 59267 2005-06-26 11:29:00 Windows Updates Capt.Hook (5586) Press F1
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367240 2005-06-26 11:29:00 Running XPhome SP2.
Although the critical updates are downloaded,I continually get the message
"updates failed to install". Can anyone shed some light on this problem.
Thanks

Hook
Capt.Hook (5586)
367241 2005-06-26 12:07:00 From here (blogs.msdn.com) , comes one problem similar to your own... " So, I decided to go to Windows Update manually. And there they were waiting for me, 5 high importance updates. 4 critical updates and one update for the Windows Installer 3.1. So I went on and chose to install them all.
An error message came up telling me that the updates failed to install. strange!
So I tried again. Same error. am running XP SP2.
Then I thought that the Windows Installer might need to be installed by itself. So, I went to Windows Update and deselected all the other critical updates (strangely they now became 6 up from the 5 they were the previous times) and left only Installer 3.1.
It worked, so after Installer was installed I went back and installed all the critical updates. "
pheonix (36)
367242 2005-06-26 12:17:00 Thanks Pheonix, I'll give that a go and see if it works for me.
Will get back to you tomorrow.

Hook
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