Re: Failed Updates
- From: jerrydt <jerrydt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:48:04 -0700
"Shenan Stanley" wrote:
jerrydt wrote:Shenan Stanley, thanks for your suggestions. I will try that sequence you
I also have the same problem, and YES, I did recently do a partial
re-install since I could not even boot to a C:prompt.
What I'm additionally struggling with is that everytime I try to
Load any program, including IE, I keep getting a (Non-Error Message
in a Windows Box stating,)
"Windows Installer
Preparing to install..."
and it keeps running for about a minute and goes away and another
Starts.
It will repeat FIVE times everytime I try to Load most any Pgm and
then it Stops and finally Loads the Pgm.
I do have that Yellow Files waiting Icon and there are 81 Files in
it. Similar to other Posts I've been reading here.
I saw your instructions to the other fellow and that is far beyond
my time constraints or Attention Span.. Is there another fix?
(btw; i'm not even sure what is causing the Critical Udates etc.,
to generate that problem.)
One final question, I have always heard that if your try to do a
NEW-INSTALL, (after a crash of Only the Operating System) as
opposed to trying, "what I did" in doing a RE-INSTALL of XP Home
sp2, that the NEW-Install will DESTROY all your data files like
Word, Excel, Lotus, PalmPilot Data and the associated Programs, not
to mention it automatically Formats your HD before doing the
NEW-Install.
Thanks for any help and/or shortcuts you might be able to give me
on this. I'm an ole CNA, but have been retired since 1999, so very
rusty due mainly to Registries.
First - your second question. A 'NEW' install is a 'clean' install. It is
like never having anything on the hard disk drive because you delete the
partition and create a new one, format it and install. A repair install
allows you to fix corrupt files. A parallel install installs another copy
side-by-side your original. There is nothing 'automatic' about any of them
unless the installation media has been modified to be unattended.
Try this:
Get Dial-a-Fix:
http://wiki.djlizard.net/Dial-a-fix
Use its options to fix:
- Windows Installer
- Windows Update
- All the Registration Center options.
Turn off the "Empty System32\Catroot 2"
Do NOT do "Flush SoftwareDistribution".
Then click "GO" and wait until it is done... Reboot may be needed.
- Download/Install Windows Update v3.
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=91237
(You may need to install it using the command line switch "/wuforce" right
after an additional reboot - immediately after logging in.)
- Download/Install the 927891 patch.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7A81B0CD-A0B9-497E-8A89-404327772E5A
- Reboot.
- Visit http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ and scan for/install updates.
- Come back and let us know how things went!
--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
referenced above and let you know how it goes in a few days. btw, I did try
that Dial A Fix program, as I had read about it in the message bases here,
but never went further than that. I will run it again after I d/l some of
the other items you refered in your above list, just in case I screw up and
can't get back online..
Thank you so much,
Jerry
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