Updates failing

Microsoft says I need some updates. I try to downloand and install but it's
not working. The download works but not the install.The updates are KB945185,
KB946254, KB944941, KB943983 and KB943973. This has been going on for over a
week. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Tim

Tim wrote:

|Microsoft says I need some updates. I try to downloand and install
|but it's not working. The download works but not the install.The
|updates are KB945185, KB946254, KB944941, KB943983 and KB943973. This
|has been going on for over a week. What am I doing wrong?
|
|Thanks,
|Tim

What exactly happens? Do the install fail with an error message? Are
you using Windows Update to install? To be able to help we need a
little more information.

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//ceed

Yes, I'm using Microsoft Update. It checks for the latest updates, then the
Express Results shows a High Priority update for XP, the Security Update for
Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 Service Pack 2 (KB936181), and 5 updates for
Microsoft 2003, KB944941, KB943973, KB943983, KB945185, KB946254. I click on
Install Updates and it indicates that the updates are being installed. Then
the XML Core Services update is successful and all the others fail. I get a
message that reads Some Updates Were Not Installed, and then it lists t 5
that failed.

"ceed" wrote:

> Tim wrote:
>
> |Microsoft says I need some updates. I try to downloand and install
> |but it's not working. The download works but not the install.The
> |updates are KB945185, KB946254, KB944941, KB943983 and KB943973. This
> |has been going on for over a week. What am I doing wrong?
> |
> |Thanks,
> |Tim
>
> What exactly happens? Do the install fail with an error message? Are
> you using Windows Update to install? To be able to help we need a
> little more information.
>
> --
> //ceed
>

Tim wrote:

|Yes, I'm using Microsoft Update. It checks for the latest updates,
|then the Express Results shows a High Priority update for XP, the
|Security Update for Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 Service Pack 2
|(KB936181), and 5 updates for Microsoft 2003, KB944941, KB943973,
|KB943983, KB945185, KB946254. I click on Install Updates and it
|indicates that the updates are being installed. Then the XML Core
|Services update is successful and all the others fail. I get a
|message that reads Some Updates Were Not Installed, and then it lists
|t 5 that failed.
|
|"ceed" wrote:
|
|| Tim wrote:
||
|> |Microsoft says I need some updates. I try to downloand and install
|> |but it's not working. The download works but not the install.The
|> |updates are KB945185, KB946254, KB944941, KB943983 and KB943973.
|This > |has been going on for over a week. What am I doing wrong?
|> |
|> |Thanks,
|> |Tim
||
|| What exactly happens? Do the install fail with an error message?
||Are you using Windows Update to install? To be able to help we
||need a little more information.
||
|| --
|| //ceed
||

Well, there could be several reasons for this. I have had two problems
like that on Vista. MS support was not able to help, but I found this
method:

Do two things over all:

First:
1. Bring up an elevated (Administrator) command prompt

2. Execute the following commands sequentially:

a. fsutil resource setautoreset true c:\

b. cd /d %windir%\system32\config\txr

c. attrib -r -s -h *

d. del *

Second:

Start an elevated (Administrator) cmd.exe

Type: Cd %windir%\System32\SMI\Store\Machine
Type: Attrib –a –h –s *.TM*
Type: Del *.TM*

NOW REBOOT! After reboot updates should install

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//ceed



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//ceed

Windows version?

Tip: Temporarily disable real-time protection by your anti-virus and/or
anti-spyware applications (e.g., CounterSpy, Spysweeper, Spybot Tea Timer,
AVG Anti-Spyware) and/or any third-party firewall (e.g., ZA) before
attempting to install the update(s). If you disable the third-party
firewall, make certain that you enable the Windows Firewall!

=====================

How to troubleshoot Windows Update, Microsoft Update, and Windows Server
Update Services installation issues:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=906602

1. See the "Need more help? Tell us what problem you are having" section of
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=ph;en-us;6527

2. You cannot install some updates or programs
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;822798

3a. Check Windowsupdate.log (%windir%\Windowsupdate.log) for errors
associated with the download/install.

How to read the Windowsupdate.log file
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902093

3b. Compare errors to those listed here:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/blog...showentry=1122
and/or go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com > click on Help and Support
link in left pane > Solve problems on your own.

===========================

Start a free Windows Update support incident request:
https://support.microsoft.com/oas/de...spx?gprid=6527

Support for Windows Update:
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/wusupport
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/


Tim wrote:
> Microsoft says I need some updates. I try to downloand and install but
> it's
> not working. The download works but not the install.The updates are
> KB945185, KB946254, KB944941, KB943983 and KB943973. This has been going
> on
> for over a week. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:

|Windows version?
|
|Tip: Temporarily disable real-time protection by your anti-virus
|and/or anti-spyware applications (e.g., CounterSpy, Spysweeper,
|Spybot Tea Timer, AVG Anti-Spyware) and/or any third-party firewall
|(e.g., ZA) before attempting to install the update(s). If you disable
|the third-party firewall, make certain that you enable the Windows
|Firewall!
|
|=====================
|
|How to troubleshoot Windows Update, Microsoft Update, and Windows
|Server Update Services installation issues:
|http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=906602
|
|1. See the "Need more help? Tell us what problem you are having"
|section of http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=ph;en-us;6527
|
|2. You cannot install some updates or programs
| http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;822798
|
|3a. Check Windowsupdate.log (%windir%\Windowsupdate.log) for errors
|associated with the download/install.
|
|How to read the Windowsupdate.log file
|http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902093
|
|3b. Compare errors to those listed here:
|http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/blog...?showentry=112
|2 and/or go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com > click on Help and
|Support link in left pane > Solve problems on your own.
|
|===========================
|
|Start a free Windows Update support incident request:
|https://support.microsoft.com/oas/de...spx?gprid=6527
|
|Support for Windows Update:
|http://support.microsoft.com/gp/wusupport

Good post, but this is actually all the procedures I went through with
MS support. I finally had to resintall Vista. The second time I went
hunting for another solution which is the one I posted in this thread.
It worked.

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//ceed

I too am unable to install updates. I'm running xp home, and none of the
suggestions mentioned have helped.

"Tim" wrote:

> Microsoft says I need some updates. I try to downloand and install but it's
> not working. The download works but not the install.The updates are KB945185,
> KB946254, KB944941, KB943983 and KB943973. This has been going on for over a
> week. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim

For what it's worth, after I fail to install the 90 updates there is no
record of any failed attempts in the review update history.

Tim wrote:
> Microsoft says I need some updates. I try to downloand and install
> but it's not working. The download works but not the install.The
> updates are KB945185, KB946254, KB944941, KB943983 and KB943973.
> This has been going on for over a week. What am I doing wrong?

miffed wrote:
> I too am unable to install updates. I'm running xp home, and none
> of the suggestions mentioned have helped.

miffed wrote:
> For what it's worth, after I fail to install the 90 updates there
> is no record of any failed attempts in the review update history.

I don't believe the thread/conversation you replied to has anything to do
with your issue.
Did you search any?

First off - the original poster has Windows Vista. You have Windows XP. ;-)

See if this fixes your issues - come back - let us know.

Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update,
from Microsoft Update, or by using Automatic Updates after
you repair a Windows XP installation
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144

(Try it even if you did a clean, not repair, installation.)
(Try it even if you performed some sort of restore - not repair install.)
(Try it even if you did an upgrade installation.)

Do all suggested methods.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

I have the same problem - I have tried various things which others have
suggested but nothing works. Can anyone help?
Marilyn

"ceed" wrote:

> Tim wrote:
>
> |Microsoft says I need some updates. I try to downloand and install
> |but it's not working. The download works but not the install.The
> |updates are KB945185, KB946254, KB944941, KB943983 and KB943973. This
> |has been going on for over a week. What am I doing wrong?
> |
> |Thanks,
> |Tim
>
> What exactly happens? Do the install fail with an error message? Are
> you using Windows Update to install? To be able to help we need a
> little more information.
>
> --
> //ceed
>