Never mind. I finally figured out that I HAD to turn on Auto Update in
Security Center. I'll turn it off again as soon as I do what I need. You'd
think MS would SAY THAT SOMEWHERE.

"Richard" wrote:

> I am trying to update XP Home SP2 and get this message: "The site cannot
> continue because one or more of these Windows services is not running:
>
> Automatic Updates (allows the site to find, download and install
> high-priority updates for your computer)
> Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) (helps updates download more
> quickly and without problems if the download process is interrupted)
> Event Log (keeps a record of updating activities to help with
> troubleshooting, if needed) " as well as the error message listed above.
>
> These services are, in fact, running; I restarted them to make sure. I have
> also tried to find out how to manually update, as I am told I can do on the
> same page, but have been unable to find out how.
>
> I recently disabled many services per blackviper.com "Safe" list for XP. I
> thought recall having updated once since then. I got the above message, but
> was able to update at that time.