Same here...everything's been fine until today. Now I get the following
message upon connecting to the updat site:
"Software Upgrade for Some Windows Components Required"
....so I click on "download and install now", I get a long wait, then get
this error:
"Some updates were not installed" and it lists the 1 update:
"Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool (KB892130)"

I even tried downloading and running the MGADiag.exe tool, but that didn't
help either.

Also, I just installed WinXP SP3 manually (on an up-to-date WinXP Pro SP2
box), which installed just fine, but I still get the above errors and can no
longer obtain updates.

What gives?


"Ford12" wrote:

> Hello
> Win XP home
> When I go to download updates it says I need to install WGA validation tool.
> I click to install.
> Installation failed. I look at my history of updates and it has already been
> installed back in February and has a green tick. I do have one failed install
> for security update 920213 error message 0x8024200D. I can't seem to find it
> manually. Don't know if this security update is the problem or could it be
> the fact that I used a utility to remove the WGA tool as it was causing my
> welcome screen to hang.
> Don't know how to fix.
> Thanks
> Ford.