windows XP SP3 windows update issue

Hello, before i updated to XP Pro SP 3 i was using SP2, but windows update
worked but still had issues. if i would select more then 60 updates at a time
to install after the updates download all of them would fail to install. if i
selected 60 or less updates all of them would download and install just fine.

now after i installed XP Pro SP3 windows update will download but the
install always fails, no matter if i select 1 update at a time or not. so i
had to manually download the updates and install them myself and they
installed fine that way.

even if i turned on auto updates in SP3 the updates would still fail to
install, but will download fine.

i dont know why this is going on, windows updates also dont show me a error
code to help me find out what is going on. at least in XP Pro SP2 i could get
the updates to install if i selected 60 or less updates at a time, windows
update in XP Pro SP3 is useless cause the updates always fail to install.

a friend told me that windows update is all screwed up and wont handle more
then a sertian ammount of updates at a time. but whats up with SP3

Hello Frank,


Try this:

Search for and delete all files "*.tmp"
Search for all files "temp" Delete the contents of them, do NOT delete the
folder.
Go to Control Panel
Click Internet Options
Click "Delete Cookies", click OK, may take a few minutes
Click "Delete Files"
Check "Delete all offline content" click OK, may take a few minutes
Click "Clear History" click Yes, may also take a few minutes
Perform Disk Cleanup checking all boxes except "Compress old files"
Start/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Disk Clean-up
-=-

How to Automate the Disk Cleanup Tool in Windows XP
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315246>
Reboot
-=-

Test this WGA diagnose test, connection to MS, that scripts working.
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/diag/
Reboot
-=-

Go ahead and download Dial-ª-Fix.
<http://wiki.djlizard.net/Dial-a-fix>
Scroll down about 2/3 of the way to Download Dial-ª-fix
Click the Double green checkmark and click Go.
Reboot
Try the
<http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/>
and D/L your updates
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For the benefit of the community reading this post, please rate the pºst.

I hope this post is helpful.

Let us know how it works ºut.

Ǝиçεl
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"Frank" wrote:

> Hello, before i updated to XP Pro SP 3 i was using SP2, but windows update
> worked but still had issues. if i would select more then 60 updates at a time
> to install after the updates download all of them would fail to install. if i
> selected 60 or less updates all of them would download and install just fine.
>
> now after i installed XP Pro SP3 windows update will download but the
> install always fails, no matter if i select 1 update at a time or not. so i
> had to manually download the updates and install them myself and they
> installed fine that way.
>
> even if i turned on auto updates in SP3 the updates would still fail to
> install, but will download fine.
>
> i dont know why this is going on, windows updates also dont show me a error
> code to help me find out what is going on. at least in XP Pro SP2 i could get
> the updates to install if i selected 60 or less updates at a time, windows
> update in XP Pro SP3 is useless cause the updates always fail to install.
>
> a friend told me that windows update is all screwed up and wont handle more
> then a sertian ammount of updates at a time. but whats up with SP3

Thankyou very much

the Dial-ª-Fix worked like a charm, i tried all before that (the WGAdiagnose
test there was 2 issues, i got them fixed and it still didnt help) and it
didnt seem to solve the issues, but Dial-ª-Fix fixed the issues, i can now
download and install updates from windows update.

Again thanks allot
Frank

"Engel" wrote:

> Hello Frank,
>
>
> Try this:
>
> Search for and delete all files "*.tmp"
> Search for all files "temp" Delete the contents of them, do NOT delete the
> folder.
> Go to Control Panel
> Click Internet Options
> Click "Delete Cookies", click OK, may take a few minutes
> Click "Delete Files"
> Check "Delete all offline content" click OK, may take a few minutes
> Click "Clear History" click Yes, may also take a few minutes
> Perform Disk Cleanup checking all boxes except "Compress old files"
> Start/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Disk Clean-up
> -=-
>
> How to Automate the Disk Cleanup Tool in Windows XP
> <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315246>
> Reboot
> -=-
>
> Test this WGA diagnose test, connection to MS, that scripts working.
> http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/diag/
> Reboot
> -=-
>
> Go ahead and download Dial-ª-Fix.
> <http://wiki.djlizard.net/Dial-a-fix>
> Scroll down about 2/3 of the way to Download Dial-ª-fix
> Click the Double green checkmark and click Go.
> Reboot
> Try the
> <http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/>
> and D/L your updates
> -=-
>
> For the benefit of the community reading this post, please rate the pºst.
>
> I hope this post is helpful.
>
> Let us know how it works ºut.
>
> Ǝиçεl
> -=-
>
>
>
> "Frank" wrote:
>
> > Hello, before i updated to XP Pro SP 3 i was using SP2, but windows update
> > worked but still had issues. if i would select more then 60 updates at a time
> > to install after the updates download all of them would fail to install. if i
> > selected 60 or less updates all of them would download and install just fine.
> >
> > now after i installed XP Pro SP3 windows update will download but the
> > install always fails, no matter if i select 1 update at a time or not. so i
> > had to manually download the updates and install them myself and they
> > installed fine that way.
> >
> > even if i turned on auto updates in SP3 the updates would still fail to
> > install, but will download fine.
> >
> > i dont know why this is going on, windows updates also dont show me a error
> > code to help me find out what is going on. at least in XP Pro SP2 i could get
> > the updates to install if i selected 60 or less updates at a time, windows
> > update in XP Pro SP3 is useless cause the updates always fail to install.
> >
> > a friend told me that windows update is all screwed up and wont handle more
> > then a sertian ammount of updates at a time. but whats up with SP3

Frank,

Excellent--glad you got that going, and thanks for helping others with this
post.

Thank you for the feedback,


(¯`·._.·Ǝиçεl·._.·´¯)

-=-
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"Frank" wrote:

> Thankyou very much
>
> the Dial-ª-Fix worked like a charm, i tried all before that (the WGAdiagnose
> test there was 2 issues, i got them fixed and it still didnt help) and it
> didnt seem to solve the issues, but Dial-ª-Fix fixed the issues, i can now
> download and install updates from windows update.
>
> Again thanks allot
> Frank
>
> "Engel" wrote:
>
> > Hello Frank,
> >
> >
> > Try this:
> >
> > Search for and delete all files "*.tmp"
> > Search for all files "temp" Delete the contents of them, do NOT delete the
> > folder.
> > Go to Control Panel
> > Click Internet Options
> > Click "Delete Cookies", click OK, may take a few minutes
> > Click "Delete Files"
> > Check "Delete all offline content" click OK, may take a few minutes
> > Click "Clear History" click Yes, may also take a few minutes
> > Perform Disk Cleanup checking all boxes except "Compress old files"
> > Start/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Disk Clean-up
> > -=-
> >
> > How to Automate the Disk Cleanup Tool in Windows XP
> > <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315246>
> > Reboot
> > -=-
> >
> > Test this WGA diagnose test, connection to MS, that scripts working.
> > http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/diag/
> > Reboot
> > -=-
> >
> > Go ahead and download Dial-ª-Fix.
> > <http://wiki.djlizard.net/Dial-a-fix>
> > Scroll down about 2/3 of the way to Download Dial-ª-fix
> > Click the Double green checkmark and click Go.
> > Reboot
> > Try the
> > <http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/>
> > and D/L your updates
> > -=-
> >
> > For the benefit of the community reading this post, please rate the pºst.
> >
> > I hope this post is helpful.
> >
> > Let us know how it works ºut.
> >
> > Ǝиçεl
> > -=-
> >
> >
> >
> > "Frank" wrote:
> >
> > > Hello, before i updated to XP Pro SP 3 i was using SP2, but windows update
> > > worked but still had issues. if i would select more then 60 updates at a time
> > > to install after the updates download all of them would fail to install. if i
> > > selected 60 or less updates all of them would download and install just fine.
> > >
> > > now after i installed XP Pro SP3 windows update will download but the
> > > install always fails, no matter if i select 1 update at a time or not. so i
> > > had to manually download the updates and install them myself and they
> > > installed fine that way.
> > >
> > > even if i turned on auto updates in SP3 the updates would still fail to
> > > install, but will download fine.
> > >
> > > i dont know why this is going on, windows updates also dont show me a error
> > > code to help me find out what is going on. at least in XP Pro SP2 i could get
> > > the updates to install if i selected 60 or less updates at a time, windows
> > > update in XP Pro SP3 is useless cause the updates always fail to install.
> > >
> > > a friend told me that windows update is all screwed up and wont handle more
> > > then a sertian ammount of updates at a time. but whats up with SP3

CrystalBall© sez...

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

Frank wrote:
> Hello, before i updated to XP Pro SP 3 i was using SP2, but windows update
> worked but still had issues. if i would select more then 60 updates at a
> time to install after the updates download all of them would fail to
> install. if i selected 60 or less updates all of them would download and
> install just fine.
>
> now after i installed XP Pro SP3 windows update will download but the
> install always fails, no matter if i select 1 update at a time or not. so
> i
> had to manually download the updates and install them myself and they
> installed fine that way.
>
> even if i turned on auto updates in SP3 the updates would still fail to
> install, but will download fine.
>
> i dont know why this is going on, windows updates also dont show me a
> error
> code to help me find out what is going on. at least in XP Pro SP2 i could
> get the updates to install if i selected 60 or less updates at a time,
> windows update in XP Pro SP3 is useless cause the updates always fail to
> install.
>
> a friend told me that windows update is all screwed up and wont handle
> more
> then a sertian ammount of updates at a time. but whats up with SP3

thanks PA Bear [MS MVP]

i already tried that before i posted the issue here but it didnt work or
help, also that the fact i was getting no error code when they failed to
install which left me lost on how to correct it that is why i went to that
support page before i came here, they did download fine but failed to install.

but the issue is solved with that dial-a-fix program. and now i can use
windows update to install the updates.

since i am running XP Pro SP3 now there isnt that many updates like there is
with a new install of XP Pro SP2, (with a new install of XP Pro SP2) if you
select to many updates with windows update like more then 60 at a time the
downloaded updates will fail (but download fine), if you select 60 or less
then all of the updates will install fine. since i am running SP3 i cant test
to see if that dial-a-fix solves that issue.

Thanks Again
Frank

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

> CrystalBall© sez...
>
> Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update, from Microsoft
> Update, or by using Automatic Updates after you perform a new Windows XP
> installation or you repair a Windows XP installation
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144
> --
> ~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/
>
> Frank wrote:
> > Hello, before i updated to XP Pro SP 3 i was using SP2, but windows update
> > worked but still had issues. if i would select more then 60 updates at a
> > time to install after the updates download all of them would fail to
> > install. if i selected 60 or less updates all of them would download and
> > install just fine.
> >
> > now after i installed XP Pro SP3 windows update will download but the
> > install always fails, no matter if i select 1 update at a time or not. so
> > i
> > had to manually download the updates and install them myself and they
> > installed fine that way.
> >
> > even if i turned on auto updates in SP3 the updates would still fail to
> > install, but will download fine.
> >
> > i dont know why this is going on, windows updates also dont show me a
> > error
> > code to help me find out what is going on. at least in XP Pro SP2 i could
> > get the updates to install if i selected 60 or less updates at a time,
> > windows update in XP Pro SP3 is useless cause the updates always fail to
> > install.
> >
> > a friend told me that windows update is all screwed up and wont handle
> > more
> > then a sertian ammount of updates at a time. but whats up with SP3
>
>