I have found during this past year that many of the updates coming in on the
Auto Update site give problems. Either downloading or installing or giving
error messages or screwing something up on my computer.
So I have generally taken to seeing which ones are there to be updated and
then finding them either on a MS download site or go to the MS Updates
catalog
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.co...en/default.asp and get
them from there.
Another trick that works for me is to download and SAVE them first to a
folder I keep them in and then Install them one by one later. Many folks
claim you should also keep your AV off while installing and /or downloading
them.
Most of these problems started when MS offered Microsoft Updates instead of
only Windows Updates. I, in fact then disabled Microsoft Updates and only use
Windows Updates and go to Office Updates to get them seperately. My Windows
Update site works fine now but as I said often things screw up in the process
of DL and Installing the updates so I use the procedure discribved above.
Good Luck.
--
Dan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
"Mike" wrote:
> Thanks Dan, I will try turning off my AV software, when I download it again
> and try to install it. I appreciate the quick answer with your experience. It
> seems there was not alot of testing with this download set. Maybe 7 or 8
> items is too much for the average PC to accept?
>
> M
>
> "oknowhi" wrote:
>
> > I have WinXP SP2. When I installed all the updates the other day(13th I
> > think) my IE was screwed
> > up. There were no drop down menu items on top toolbar showing but they would
> > drop down if I scrolled over them, my start menu lost all its small icons,
> > any folders I went to showed icons only and I could not change it back to
> > list like I normally have them, and a few other things were "changed" I don't
> > remember. So after reading the posts here, I UNINSTALLED all of the days
> > updates ( I had 8 of them) and then reinstalled one by one (this time with my
> > AV off) except I did not reinstall KB896688( only downloaded and saved it).
> >
> > What I finally did was went to KB896688 on MS downloads site and then DL it
> > from there to SAVE and then decided to try it again installing from my own
> > computer and now my IE and computer all works fine. I also made sure I had
> > my AV disabled this time when saving it and when installing it with nothing
> > else
> > running or open. I think what happened when trying to DL all 8 from WIN
> > Update site, something was corrupted in the process of DL or installation.
> >
> > If you scroll down here on this discussion board you will see many folks are
> > having all sorts of problems with this months updates from MS especially I
> > think if you try to take them all from the WIN Update site using Express and
> > doing all of them at once.
> >
> > To Remove: Start/Control Panel/Add Remove Program. Tick where it says "Show
> > Updates" at
> > the top right of the window. Click on the update and then on remove.
> >
> > OR you run a SEARCH for Files. If so then>>> Look for the updates from
> > this month
> > KB896688, 904706,905414,905749,901017,900725,902400 and 890830(but this one
> > you can't uninstall). Put it in the "All or part of file name" window and it
> > will bring up the "uninstaller" for that update. Right click on it and OPEN
> > it and follow instructions. Preferably maybe do one at a time on the search
> > and start with 896688 as it has caused most of the problems it seems.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Dan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
> >
> >
> > "Mike" wrote:
> >
> > > I just downloaded and installed 7 updates yesterday successfully. Today
> > > another one shows up it downloaded fine, but will not configure itself? Any
> > > others having problems with this one
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