Yet another KB905474 victim
- From: ozegirl <ozegirl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 17:38:02 -0700
This is what I have done:
* Had automatic updates switched on and it popped up on systray to start
downloading
*Switched automatic updates off as it was an inconvenient time for me to do
the download/install
*Soon after, went to the Windows update site to do the automatic check for
updates
* Found KB905474 and downloaded it successfully
*Install initialised, started installing, package was extracted, blue bar
went across and at the end came up installation failed due to problem with
computer
*Switched AV off in case that was interfering, tried again, same problem
*switched AV back on tried again
*read the troubleshooting article and it said install may be applied on next
log on so I logged out and back on - same problem
*came to this forum & started reading
*read solutions in this post:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx?&query=905474&lang=en&cr=US&guid=&sloc=en-us&dg=microsoft.public.windowsupdate&p=1&tid=97cb349d-d479-49b7-93a1-4f9eaf20dacb
- to (1) manually download or, (2) in another later post in the same thread,
I saw that someone already had it installed on their computer so I checked
and found I had it installed on 10th Nov 2008.
* followed the link given http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/diag/
and started diagnostics - initially the last two criteria failed. I have
Firefox installed, so i followed the instructions to install the plug-ins
* re-tried the diagnostics and everything passed. I then clicked to validate
Windows and that succeeded.
* I then returned to the Windows update site but I was still being offered
to install the update - I attempted the install and it failed again.
* I rebooted in case that was required, went to windows update and it failed
to install again
* I then downloaded the full package from
http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/windowsxp-kb905474-enu-x86_4bafa8793e8cdcaf4ba4ffc494df32d496154544.exe
* I then attempted to run the install, but got an error message saying that
setup could not continue because I already had a newer version
* went back to windows update and still I get prompted to install the download
My comment is:
OK, so I probably don't need to install this any more, but I'd feel happier
if the Windows update site didn't prompt me to install this update.
My question is:
Would it be worthwhile uninstalling the KB905474 I have in add/remove
programs dated 10th Nov 2008 and then trying to install this one from windows
update or will that really muck everything up?
By the way, I have Automatic updates back on again and so far there has been
no prompt from there to do anything. (but this has all happened within an
hour or so)
The update history on the windows update site doesn't show failed updates -
it shows in every case "update cancelled"
What's best to do now?
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