Re: Multiple Failed Updates
- From: "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:18:15 -0500
Don't worry about the 2 versions. Just go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ > Select CUSTOM and scan > Uncheck KB934238 and "hide" it.
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BruceM wrote:
No automatic updates only offers to install 934238. And no, I cannot answer
yes to all the questions. So it seems that I may not need the update.
However, this does not explain the apparent error in the update catalog
listing two versions of this update as the same. I started a microsoft
e-mail case to see what they say.
Regards,
Bruce
"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
Can you answer my question, please?...
Does Automatic Updates offer you any of these "failed" updates?
IN RE 934238: See Posts #51 through #58 in this archived thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsupdate/browse_frm/thread/49b027e24348ff5b/9da0e19475f020a3
(1) Are you running a non-English version of Windows XP *and* (2) are you
using a Unidrv-based printer *and* (3) is Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0
installed *and* (4) are you seeing English text in the print dialog box
when you print something? If you cannot answer Yes to all four (4)
conditions, you don't need to install 934238.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/
BruceM wrote:Thanksk for the reply. However, on looking closer (like I should have
done
before I posted) I found that there were really only two updates listed as
"failed". All but one on the list were log entries in my update history
of
duplicate but failed attempts to install KB934238 (XPS Documant writer
update). The other was a failed visio SP3 update.
I downloaded the Vision SP3 updtate but it would not install stating that
it
was already installed. So I gues I'll just ignore that one since you must
remove Visio altogether to reinstall SP3. (Sidenote: I installed Visio
2003 AFTER installing Office 2007. I worried that there were common
components that would stomp on each other. Perhaps this is realted to the
"failure" of the update?)
Anyway, I then went to the update catalog to download KB934238. And I may
have found a clue to the problem. There are not one but TWO downloads in
the update catalog referring to exactly the same update (KB934238). They
both have the same date and description, point to the same reference
artical but one is 3.6mb and the other is 14.3mb! Which one to download??
Since I can't tell which to download, it's reasonable to think that
automatic updates may not be able to tell either, and thus posts a failed
update attempt.
I think I will call Microsoft and let them know about this connundrum!
Bruce
PS - I'd still like to see a more intelligent update manager!
"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
Does Automatic Updates offer you any of these "failed" updates?
How to configure and use Automatic Updates in WinXP
[Tip: There are several ways to configure Automatic Updates]
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306525
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/
BruceM wrote:I just noticed that I have more than a dozen "failed" updates many with
different error codes. Microsoft Update suggests "reinstalling" fialed
updates but I have found no simple or easy way to do this, and Microsoft
Update has no provision for this. Downloading each of these manually
and
attempting to install each one does not seem like a fun alternative.
Isn't there some way I can tell XP to "clean house" of failed updates,
deleting the downloaded files and resetting the history so that it will
attempt a fresh download?
How about a 3rd party update manager that plugs into CP?
And why don't all the "failed" updates show up in the "express" or
"custom"
list when I run Microsot Update each time?
I am running XP with Office 2007 (except for Visio 2003 and Access
runtime
2000).
Wish list: If Microsoft Update were a little smarter, it would let me
manage updates wth far more power. I want to add and delete updates of
my
choice, delete failed updates with a click of a checkbox, right click an
update to see properties, file name, reset resigtry, unistall,
reinstall,
etc, etc.....
Bruce
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