Re: problem with security update Windows XP (KB912919) - error 0x80070

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please open a support call.
In the meanwhile (500 hours), please see what is different between the two
machines in terms of hardware and software, and share it here.
We can do better than their engineers, I'll bet.


<karlston@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1136590538.809654.221710@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I got the same unhelpful error message (Access Denied... TO WHAT?
> MICROSOFT!) when running this update on one of my W2K SP4 boxes (the
> other worked OK), and also the very, very, scary "Windows 2000 has been
> partially updated and may no longer work" dialogue box at the end.
>
> I executed the secedit command mentioned in one of the links from a
> previous poster, made sure my virus scanner and firewall were disabled,
> and the update then applied successfully...
>
> secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb
> /verbose
>
> HTH
>


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