Updates fail after restore

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I have an old emachines - lost the restore cd, ordered a set from place
reccommended by emachine. Did the restore last night and now im trying to
install all the updates ... i have Windows XP Home Version 5.1 (build 2600
xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158: Service Pack 2) Copyright 1982-2001 Microsoft
Corporation. I ran the net stop thing and it said it worked so i tried to
reinstall still nothing - please help!!
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