thanks dude, I will give that a try. George Larribeau wrote: > Kaleb, I am assuming W2K or XP. Try the 'custom button after it 'thinks' > for a while you will get a list with the 'critical updates on it (there > is also lists for 'optional software and hardware(driver related) ignore > these lists for now. again here I am assuming that you are getting hosed > on a critical update. Now at this point if this dribble is useful try > this: > make a list of the critical updates it wants to load, they will have > descriptive names maybe with a cryptic number that will start usually > with KB(something)the KB numbers are useful. You want to keep a list of > them with the 'English descriptions ' One way to do this is to paste a > bunch of it into note pad an save it somewhere handy to get to it later, > if it is long printing it might help. > Now that you have a list check to see which ones are selected, usually > this will be all of the critical updates but some times there are > updates that need to be installed by them selves. Hit the install > selected updates button and watch, this can get boring and tedious. It > will first down load the whole list then it will try to install them one > at a time. You need to note the first one it tries to install by the KB > number, this should be the one that it is chocking on, the one that > gives the message "update failed". Now more dribble ..after it fails > reboot the 'favorite expletive here 'and rerun updates this time > un-select the problem update and see if other updates will load. > hopefully some will. > If this is working then try google searching on "micro$haft update > KBxxxx fails to load" and see what you get. updates can alsoe be found > on the M$ web site by KB number as stand alone "exe" files. They can be > tricky to find google usually can do a better job of finding them than > the search box on the MS web site , but some times not ... > Good Luck hope this can help. > > George Larribeau > where abouts secret, > just put on my tin foil hat .. > > oopps I did mean microsoft ... > > > > > On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 20:58 -0600, Kaleb C. Striplin wrote: >> speaking of windows update, I have 2 different computers that I do the >> windows update, it downloads them but wont install any of the updates. >> AFter it goes thru its deal, says update failed. Anybody got a clue >> about that? >> >> Allan Streib wrote: >>> "LarryT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>>> I upgraded from Win98 to XP home and there's no comparision - XP was >>>> a major leap forward. Stable, faster, easy to upgrade the OS and >>>> other stuff in the puter. >>> Good grief yes that would be an improvement. Win98 was still mostly a >>> graphical UI over DOS. When I used 95/98 I had to reboot generally >>> twice a day due to memory leaks or blue screens. With 2000/XP I only >>> reboot after Windows Updates (which seems to be every week, but I know >>> it's not quite that often). >>> >>> Allan > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >
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