Re: Windows Update Fails

From: Taurarian Constellation (taurarianREMOVECAPS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/09/04 

Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 16:18:06 +1000

WINUP-Third-Party Products That Conflict with Windows Update
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;241234

http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/wufix.htm
Windows Update Fixes
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/updtcl.htm
Windows Update Checklist

Why can't I download updates?
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/top10faqs.htm

You can download them from the Catalog and save to be installed later.
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/catalog/en/default.asp
How to Download Windows Updates and Drivers from the Windows Update Catalog
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=323166

Click Add button for each update you want to download. Once you have what you want,
Click the "Go To Download Basket" link. Type in or browse to the location where you
want the updates saved to and then Click the "Download Now" button.
Once downloaded, you can then burn them to CD.

Other links which may be of interest:

Roll up link
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=826939
Search for a download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en

"Andrew" <acl03@health.state.ny.us> wrote in message
news:06f701c4ad31$8ba7cfd0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Has anyone had any problems with Windows Update failing on
> XP Professional? If I go to windows update, and it finds
> more than 1 or 2 critical updates to download they fail
> midway through. For example - say it finds 9 patches to
> download. It starts downloading them one by one, and after
> #3 or #4 they all begin to fail - resulting in a screen
> similar to this:
>
> Downloading kb123456.....done!
> Downloading kb388583.....done!
> Downloading kb475866.....done!
> Downloading kb234543.....done!
> Downloading kb833792.....failed!
> Downloading kb343567.....failed!
> Downloading kb343424.....failed!
>
> I have to run windows update multiple times to get all the
> patches. This is particularly frustrating when there are
> many patches to download. Sometimes it takes 3-4 runs
> before I can get them all, and I have to reboot between
> tries. Any ideas?

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