Security update failed!! Any idea why??
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Security Update for Windows XP (KB840374) Windows automatic update says I need this update. So, I say go ahead and download/install it. Soon, another update seems to appear and so I download it. After repeating this several times in the last couple of weeks, the update number started looking familiar. I write it down and sure enough, it's back to be installed. So, I head out to the Windows Update site and look at my update history and it says that I've tried to install this on my machine a total of 9 times this month and each time the installation failed. How or why, I have no idea. So, once more I go out to the update site and try to install it again. It downloads and installs and then comes up with a message box saying that the installation is complete. No message of the status of the installation, just that it's done. I check and it has failed again. Anyone have any idesa as to what I should do or why it might have failed? Has this happened to anyone else? Thanks, Mike
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Security Update for Windows XP (KB840374) Windows automatic update says I need this update. So, I say go ahead and download/install it. Soon, another update seems to appear and so I download it. After repeating this several times in the last couple of weeks, the update number started looking familiar. I write it down and sure enough, it's back to be installed. So, I head out to the Windows Update site and look at my update history and it says that I've tried to install this on my machine a total of 9 times this month and each time the installation failed. How or why, I have no idea. So, once more I go out to the update site and try to install it again. It downloads and installs and then comes up with a message box saying that the installation is complete. No message of the status of the installation, just that it's done. I check and it has failed again. Anyone have any idesa as to what I should do or why it might have failed? Has this happened to anyone else? Thanks, Mike
I had the same problem, I ended up downloading the update and installing it manually and wow and behold it told me i had insufficient space to install the update. You would think the would log this to the event log besides saying it failed.
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Security Update for Windows XP (KB840374) Windows automatic update says I need this update. So, I say go ahead and download/install it. Soon, another update seems to appear and so I download it. After repeating this several times in the last couple of weeks, the update number started looking familiar. I write it down and sure enough, it's back to be installed. So, I head out to the Windows Update site and look at my update history and it says that I've tried to install this on my machine a total of 9 times this month and each time the installation failed. How or why, I have no idea. So, once more I go out to the update site and try to install it again. It downloads and installs and then comes up with a message box saying that the installation is complete. No message of the status of the installation, just that it's done. I check and it has failed again. Anyone have any idesa as to what I should do or why it might have failed? Has this happened to anyone else? Thanks, Mike
The Windows Update file that was downloaded may be damaged - I recall an article that describes how to delete the offending files and try again but can't locate it right now - a manual update will probably also fix things... Steve
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I had the same problem, I ended up downloading the update and installing it manually and wow and behold it told me i had insufficient space to install the update. You would think the would log this to the event log besides saying it failed.
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The Windows Update file that was downloaded may be damaged - I recall an article that describes how to delete the offending files and try again but can't locate it right now - a manual update will probably also fix things... Steve
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Security Update for Windows XP (KB840374) Windows automatic update says I need this update. So, I say go ahead and download/install it. Soon, another update seems to appear and so I download it. After repeating this several times in the last couple of weeks, the update number started looking familiar. I write it down and sure enough, it's back to be installed. So, I head out to the Windows Update site and look at my update history and it says that I've tried to install this on my machine a total of 9 times this month and each time the installation failed. How or why, I have no idea. So, once more I go out to the update site and try to install it again. It downloads and installs and then comes up with a message box saying that the installation is complete. No message of the status of the installation, just that it's done. I check and it has failed again. Anyone have any idesa as to what I should do or why it might have failed? Has this happened to anyone else? Thanks, Mike
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I had a similar problem with an update. After manually downloading and running the setup, it still got an error. I ended up running it with a command line switch to skip some action (I think it was backing up files that it would replace), and it worked. :|
Thanks for the help. Manually downloading and installing seem to be a great place to start. I manually downloaded the setup and ran it. Finally I was told what the problem was!! It couldn't run the cryptographical service (or something like this) so I go and check that. Sure enough, it isn't started. I try to start it and it tells me that it can't start because it had an exception accessing some part of memory. I think it's time to pull all of my data off and rebuild the machine. Thanks again!