Re: Yet another KB905474 victim

One further question...


Does this mean that if there is a subsequent update to KB 905474 that I
won't be offered it? Or does the hide only apply to this version of it? I
mean an update to KB 905474 itself, not a different KB number.

"ozegirl" wrote:


I did all of what you said.

However the option to hide the update was greyed out. It was also still
showing as 0 kB download, ready to install. I tried the install again in any
case, and it failed again. When I went back to services.msc the Automatic
updates was set to Stop/Restart even though I had stopped it.

I decided to try again , and this time I stopped the Automatic updates and
also changed it's mode to manual (not that doing that would really help, but
just to try something different).

I also noticed that more files had downloaded to Software distribution when
Windows update did it's check, so I re-deleted those.

I went back to WU and this time it showed download of 1.5Mb, but the option
to hide was still greyed out. I didn't want to re-download it, so I left that
and went back and restored the deleted files back to software distribution.

Still checking that Automatic updates was stopped, I went back to WU again
and tried again, expecting to see 0kB to download, ready to install. however
it still shows 1.5MB, and option to hide is still greyed out.

So now I will probably keep getting prompted to download it or it will
automatically download again.

Is there any other way to stop this?





"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

1. Stop the Automatic Updates service:

Start > Run > (type in) services.msc > [OK]
Double-click Automatic Updates > Click on Stop
(Stopping the service will take a moment)

2. Delete the contents of the Download folder:

Start > Run > (type in) %windir%\SoftwareDistribution > [OK]
Open the Download folder and delete its contents
Close the window.

3. Go to Windows Update website | Select CUSTOM and allow the scan to
complete | Uncheck/deselect KB905474 and hide it ("Don't show me this update
again").

4. Start the Automatic Updates service:

Start > Run > (type in) services.msc > [OK]
Double-click Automatic Updates > Click on Start
(Starting the service will take a moment)
--
~PA Bear


ozegirl wrote:
I checked custom as well and there is no option to hide it because it's
already downloaded - reports download size 0Kb, ready to install. I just
want to get rid of it from the list on windows updates if I can

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

1. Run Windows Update manually (http:windowsupdate.microsoft.com),
selecting the CUSTOM option.

2. Uncheck KB905474 then "hide" it.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002

ozegirl wrote:
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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