Microsoft update failures

The problem that I have is that automatic updates fail to install. I have
tried to contact microsoft and setup a time for us to discuss the issue.
after repeatedly attempts of calling during when I am at work and my wife
informs them that they need to call me after 6pm PST no luck. I guess
outsourcing to India is good for the bottom line, but bad for the customer.

I recommend that for every error we should write a letter to the Federal
trade commission or your state office of consumer affairs. They sell the
probuct and put on a good show of how they stand by it but there is no back
bone.

At the End of life for these computers, I will be switching to Apple or
Linux software.


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Bill Brewer

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 07:27:29 -0800, "Bill"
<> wrote:

>The problem that I have is that automatic updates fail to install. I have
>tried to contact microsoft and setup a time for us to discuss the issue.
>after repeatedly attempts of calling during when I am at work and my wife
>informs them that they need to call me after 6pm PST no luck. I guess
>outsourcing to India is good for the bottom line, but bad for the customer.
>
>I recommend that for every error we should write a letter to the Federal
>trade commission or your state office of consumer affairs. They sell the
>probuct and put on a good show of how they stand by it but there is no back
>bone.
>
>At the End of life for these computers, I will be switching to Apple or
>Linux software.

Hey Bill,

I have had the same problem for well over a year now on one PC, I have
tried numerous fixes but nothing works and there is very little info
on this particular problem that is of any use. Mine will download all
the updates then fail installation.

My workaround is to go into the Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Downloads
folder, and look through the latest folders for the KB I am after then
run the installer.exe manually from there.

The M$ fix is to run the scannow file check or do a repair install
which is fair enough and will no doubt work however I have avoided
that route so I do not get all the M$ bloatware (Messenger - MSN
Explorer etc) stuff I have removed back again.

If you do use the workaround method to install your updates either
move the contents of the Software Distribution folder elsewhere before
using update to get the new KBs (there will only be this months in the
folder then) or use search and point it at the Software Distribution
folder looking for KBXXXXX

Otherwise get your critical updates here

http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/index.html

>"At the End of life for these computers, I will be switching to Apple or
>Linux software"

Already onto SUSE 9.0 / 10.0, been running SUSE on several PCs for the
best part of a year now, steep learning curve but well worth the
effort. Windows Vista.................No chance enough is enough. I
will run1 XP installation on my gaming machine in future, thats it.

Jonah