Help windows update KB896688-x86-Enu Fails

Hi:

Five of the latest MS security patches that are critical fail to install on
my machine. I tried manually installing the one above and it fails with the
message Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested
service. Can the diagnostic message be any vaguer. I have 512 MB of RAM
and 11 GB of free disk space. What is wrong with MS? Even their patches
to fix their buggy OS can't install correctly. Banging my head against the
wall on this one for awhile. Any suggestions would be grately appreciated.

My OS is Windoze XP Pro SP2.

Have not tried installing in safe mode, maybe I will try while waiting for a
reply.

TIA,

Pete


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