Windows Update won't let me install the updates that I already downloaded.
any suggestions ?
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Windows Update won't let me install the updates that I already downloaded.
any suggestions ?
How, what error do you get ? Are you admin on the machine ? What Windows ?
get a carpenter
Hmmm,
It is with the greatest forebearance that I do not neg you Noia
You should have said a glasier ..................probably "glazier" in American :DQuote:
get a carpenter
isle_of_infamy it would help if you told us what version of Windows ;)
Also, please get this and run it................it is the best tool I know for checking the status of your Windows upgrades..............
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...RSS,RSS,00.asp
Good luck :)
Darn, I guess you'll just have to change operating systems ;)
This worked for work collegue on 98SEQuote:
I don't know if this will help but I have Win 98SE and the file you mention (msscript.ocx) is not installed on my machine according to Start/ Find and I am fully up-dated. That would suggest that it is not a missing System file. I can only suggest that you try and repair IE by going to Start/ Programs/ Accessories/ System Tools/ System Information/ Tools and run the first program in the drop down box, i.e. the Internet Explorer Repair Tool.
or you could try :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
Windows bought and paid for?
Isle of lazy,
Apparently you have not read this:
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=252708
Read it then ask the magic 8 ball your question again.
--th13
just try again from the very beginning of downloading and read the instructions carefully....
I am running windows 2000 and i get this error "Failed Updates
For help installing an update successfully, see the solution under each problem description."
Problem: "A problem on your computer is preventing updates from being downloaded or installed
Solution: To fix the problem, try installing the updates again. "
here is a screen shot:
http://www.boredinnc.net/ftp/Webpage/error.gif
log file says: WU client failed installing updates with error 0x80240020
Your login may not have local admin authority, so the updates would not install. If you account does have local admin authority, you may want to check that your anti-virus real-time service is not running during the installation.
Chances are it is something simple and silly like that.
I do not run an anti-virus except spysweeper which could possibly attribute to the mystery because it does load in my process manager;
but anyways what i did is i researched this a lil further about the specific error and there was a certain registry directory at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify While there i discovered a folder entitled Notify_Disabled which i deleted and then i copied 9 new reg keys for that directory from my laptop 1 of which entitled SensLogn and i uploaded all 9 registry entries to my ftp so i could download and enter them into my problematic computer's registry, but this upon rebooting the pc did not seem to work for me. when i did my windows update for my laptop on XP i had no problem it asked me to do a genuine windows verification so it seemed to work ok.
still no dice ... is there a way i can manually install these updates ?
I'm SURE I had something like this ................
and I've been looking for the link [no dice so far :(]
I 'think' it was sec_ware who gave the link to a solution .........
BUT, I've recently deleted my PM lists
and I cannot find a copy in 'my docs'
I'm still looking :)
[edit]
not sec_ware but ZT3000
here
it was for XP, but it could help, no harm in trying ..........
I used the links at the bottom of the thread, and worked back from those .......
I WISH I had a memory
NO not THAT Memory :D
this helped me a little bit foxy . basically what he said was to delete the file called DataStore.edb in this directory C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore
which in turn what that does is make it so ur machine redownloads the updates, but it still fails to install them for some reason.
i managed to get windows updates to work the only way was to use the uato updater tool on a timed schedule, but now i have a different problem. when i boot the computer up it asks me for a user password and i don't have an assigned password so yeah. i disabled the alt cntrl delete feature so hopefully that helps.