Windows Update files deleted

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I have a laptop for my occasional travels and as an emergency back up for my
regular desktop model at home. I use WindowsXp Home on both. Both are
relatively new Acers and came with pre-installed WindowsXP Home.

When at home I run the laptop briefly on a weekend at fortnightly intervals
to keep it updated, charged and synchronised with my main data files.

Until Christmas the laptop was performing faultlessly and accessing Windows
Updates successfully when run. My desktop computer continues to update
without difficulty. Both have downloaded IE7 and use IE7. A special MS fix
(KB904942-v2-x86-ENU) was required for IE7 to access my old Hotmail account
(this worked on the desktop, but not on the laptop).

Just before Christmas the laptop had problems updating an offered update (on
a viewer as I recollect - it reported the attempted update had failed) and
since then when I try to go to Windows Update on the laptop I am taken to a
screen where I am advised the files used for updating have been deleted from
the computer and I am invited to click continue to register and download the
needed updating files. When I do so the screen goes through a routine of
counting the percentage for Registration and then for Downloading, but,
having apparently completed this process, instead of taking me to the update
page I am taken back to the page advising the files are deleted and offering
again registration and downloading. I have now gone though this circuit
several times with the same fruitless results on 3 - 4 weekly/fortnightly
attempts.

Did the pre-Christmas failed update cause this laptop problem, is it related
to IE7 and is there a fix I can apply as I would wish to keep the laptop
ready for travel or emergency use?

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Regards,

Jim Wood,
Brisbane, Australia


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