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Problem With Windows Updates

#1 User is offline   kimr 

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Posted 06 October 2007 - 05:49 AM

I'm having problems with update, too. Everynight it downloads the updates and I can hear everything cooking for quite a while but then it reports the same three updates failed.

I've tried to force an update and the same three still fail. Do I need to worry about it?

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Posted 06 October 2007 - 07:23 PM

Try this...
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940520

...and then try installing them again. It's worth a shot. :huh:

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Posted 09 October 2007 - 06:26 PM

View PostI_am_CanadianEh?, on Oct 6 2007, 07:23 PM, said:

Try this...
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940520

...and then try installing them again. It's worth a shot. :huh:

Thanks for trying. It told me that the BITS thingy was not required. Kim

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Posted 10 October 2007 - 02:02 PM

Have you tried installing these manually? Instead of using Windows update, go to the Download Center and install them that way. Were you successful or the same error?

Please provide the three KB#'s of the updates as well as any error code/message that Windows gives you.

#5 User is offline   kimr 

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Posted 12 October 2007 - 06:36 PM

View PostI_am_CanadianEh?, on Oct 10 2007, 02:02 PM, said:

Have you tried installing these manually? Instead of using Windows update, go to the Download Center and install them that way. Were you successful or the same error?

Please provide the three KB#'s of the updates as well as any error code/message that Windows gives you.

I finally followed down some of the error messages to the Microsoft help center and one told me which temp folders to delete. After I did that windows update was sucessful. Thanks for your time!

This post has been edited by kimr: 12 October 2007 - 06:37 PM

#6 User is offline   Dana Walker 

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Posted 16 October 2007 - 11:48 PM

I was having the same problem, and going to the download center worked for me! Thanks for the advice.

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