Re: REPOST:Trouble installing Security Patches

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From: Mike R (rfilter_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 02/12/04 

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 00:55:23 -0800

I hope that Fred Langa won't get mad at me using an exerpt from his
newsletter but her goes...in this weeks newsletter (Langa.com) he writes the
following:

3) "Cryptographic Service Error"
A "Cryptographic Service Error" is itself fairly cryptic. <g> But it
actually can crop up in quite a few areas. Here's one example:

  Fred, My subscription to the Plus version has proved invaluable many times
over. Thank you. Last weekend a client said he couldn't logon to MSN
Explorer from one of his 2 PC's running XP Home. I used Ad-aware and Spybot
to clean up a generous amount of garbage, reinstalled MSN Explorer and fully
expected to logon. Nope, but with IE6 I could browse the WEB. Little did I
know that the logon problem was a symptom of a deeper issue. I couldn't
install IEsp1 over IE6 and Windows update wouldn't work. Finally checked to
see if XP sp1 was installed. It wasn't. When I tried to install XPsp1 I
received the following message: "Service Pack 1 Setup Error: Setup could not
verify the integrity of the file Update.inf. Make sure the Cryptographic
service is running on this computer." The cryptographic service was running
so off to Google.
  I ended up at http://www.updatexp.com/cryptographic-service.html and was
pleased to find a well written solution. May this tip shorten the odyssey
that I experienced. Christopher Harris

Thanks, Christopher. The Cryptographic Service Error page is a marvel of
completeness. In fact, the whole http://www.updatexp.com/ site is a gem, and
well worth perusing. Nice find!

"Les Connor [SBS MVP]" <les.connor@DEL.cfive.ca> wrote in message
news:ezrpAfS8DHA.1804@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hi Steve,
>
> Sorry, I have no idea. Fortunately I have not experienced the problem. I
> don't know what the kb article I am linking has to do with the error, if
> anything. But it does seem related.
>
> I haven't had time to digest it, it is one of the longer kb variety, and
> there are no less than 8 resolutions within. Given the serious nature of
the
> security vunerability, if you don't get success quickly then perhaps a
call
> to pss is in order.
>
> You Cannot Install Some Updates or Programs
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=822798
>
> --
> Les Connor [SBS MVP]
> -------------------------------------
> SBS Rocks !
>
>
>
> "Steve Reichgut" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:170F291A-6118-455D-B683-1917AF9C9695@microsoft.com...
> > I recently posted a request regarding an issue installing three critical
> security updates on SBS 2003 Standard. After trying to manually install
the
> patches, I get the same error with each. "Could not verify the integrity
of
> Update.inf. Make sure Cryptographic services are running."
> > I checked under services and Cryptographic is running...Anyone have any
> ideas on what I should do next?
>
>

Relevant Pages

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    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin)
  • Re: Windows patch install
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  • Re: Cannot Install MS03-026 on Windows XP SP1
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  • Re: Windows SP2 Setup Error
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  • RE: Denial of service attack?
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