Problems (mainly with sound system) after recent installation of the 5 'critical' updates

This problem seems to have arisen since my last Windows Update on my XP Home
installation: Before then, ActiveSync 4.5 was working properly on my
computer. In fact I installed it only a short time ago to get the computer
to recognise my PDA which it did immediately

Now the Wizard is reporting that it cannot connect to the computer as
ActiveSync 4.5 isn't installed: However, while I am typing this I am going
to Windows Explorer to see if I can tell you that the Wizard is recognised
and I can access it through Explorer, meaning that the drivers in ActiveSync
are in fact installed

As soon as I try to access the device, the whole problem disappears (as does
the error message on the device) and ActiveSync suddenly starts working.

Something in some recent Windows Update has compromised ActiveSync. I
suppose I should now go out and check on the site whether there is a new
version of Active Sync out there? If there isn't, they might take note of
this problem and try to cure it by figuring out what they have done to cause
it. (It isn't easy to figure out if this is a temporary glitch or if some
update has screwed up something at this stage)

I should also add on a separate point that the newest Windows Updates have
screwed up my sound settings which were working perfectly before the restart
necessitated by the critical updates: No sounds now work on the computer. As
an example of this, when I click the simple volume control in the taskbar, I
get some arcane error message suddenly telling me that there are no active
mixer devices available. It then pretends that if I go to Control Panel I
should be able to click printers and other hardware, (WRONG: There is no
sound functionality in PRINTERS in control panel) and install the mixer
devices. When I did this, all I got was some endless list of devices
including lots of sound devices, codecs, sound hardware devices (etc) which
I think ARE installed and a question as to what I want to install.

Is any reasonable Windows user supposed to be able to do whatever is
necessary to get his sound system working again by following this procedure?

Lastly I thought that critical updates were critical? Aren't they supposed
to be applied immediately Microsoft has discovered that someone has
compromised the OS? Why then are there no updates for weeks when
auto-update is turned on and then suddenly a notification appears in the
systray telling me to install the critical updates which have been
downloaded and coincidentally there are five of them at once? Making it
difficult to ascertain which one (for example) has screwed up the sound
system

Check you Windows Update Log. Post back the KBs as well as any error
messages that may have occurred.
Click Start, click Run, type %windir%\windowsupdate.log

Scroll to the bottom for recent updates.

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"news.microsoft.com" wrote:

> This problem seems to have arisen since my last Windows Update on my XP Home
> installation: Before then, ActiveSync 4.5 was working properly on my
> computer. In fact I installed it only a short time ago to get the computer
> to recognise my PDA which it did immediately
>
> Now the Wizard is reporting that it cannot connect to the computer as
> ActiveSync 4.5 isn't installed: However, while I am typing this I am going
> to Windows Explorer to see if I can tell you that the Wizard is recognised
> and I can access it through Explorer, meaning that the drivers in ActiveSync
> are in fact installed
>
> As soon as I try to access the device, the whole problem disappears (as does
> the error message on the device) and ActiveSync suddenly starts working.
>
> Something in some recent Windows Update has compromised ActiveSync. I
> suppose I should now go out and check on the site whether there is a new
> version of Active Sync out there? If there isn't, they might take note of
> this problem and try to cure it by figuring out what they have done to cause
> it. (It isn't easy to figure out if this is a temporary glitch or if some
> update has screwed up something at this stage)
>
> I should also add on a separate point that the newest Windows Updates have
> screwed up my sound settings which were working perfectly before the restart
> necessitated by the critical updates: No sounds now work on the computer. As
> an example of this, when I click the simple volume control in the taskbar, I
> get some arcane error message suddenly telling me that there are no active
> mixer devices available. It then pretends that if I go to Control Panel I
> should be able to click printers and other hardware, (WRONG: There is no
> sound functionality in PRINTERS in control panel) and install the mixer
> devices. When I did this, all I got was some endless list of devices
> including lots of sound devices, codecs, sound hardware devices (etc) which
> I think ARE installed and a question as to what I want to install.
>
> Is any reasonable Windows user supposed to be able to do whatever is
> necessary to get his sound system working again by following this procedure?
>
> Lastly I thought that critical updates were critical? Aren't they supposed
> to be applied immediately Microsoft has discovered that someone has
> compromised the OS? Why then are there no updates for weeks when
> auto-update is turned on and then suddenly a notification appears in the
> systray telling me to install the critical updates which have been
> downloaded and coincidentally there are five of them at once? Making it
> difficult to ascertain which one (for example) has screwed up the sound
> system
>
>
>

The only mention of error is as follows:
2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler : Install completed: result type =
0x1, installer error = False, error = 0x80070bc2, disabled until reboot =
No, reboot required = Yes
2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler :::::::::
2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler :: END :: Handler: Windows Patch
Install
2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler :::::::::::::
2007-06-13 17:35:55 988 640 AU >>## RESUMED ## AU: Installing update
[UpdateId = {C4331884-02B2-4420-9960-3D74A48EEFE8}, succeeded]
which I dont think is an error?

It seems only to have installed KB933566, KB935839, KB890830, KB935840,
KB935840, KB929123, all apparently without a hitch??

"Gistcheckin" <> wrote in message
news:7AE13B65-5183-4F05-8DFE-...
> Check you Windows Update Log. Post back the KBs as well as any error
> messages that may have occurred.
> Click Start, click Run, type %windir%\windowsupdate.log
>
> Scroll to the bottom for recent updates.
>
> --
> Gistcheckin
>
>
> "news.microsoft.com" wrote:
>
>> This problem seems to have arisen since my last Windows Update on my XP
>> Home
>> installation: Before then, ActiveSync 4.5 was working properly on my
>> computer. In fact I installed it only a short time ago to get the
>> computer
>> to recognise my PDA which it did immediately
>>
>> Now the Wizard is reporting that it cannot connect to the computer as
>> ActiveSync 4.5 isn't installed: However, while I am typing this I am
>> going
>> to Windows Explorer to see if I can tell you that the Wizard is
>> recognised
>> and I can access it through Explorer, meaning that the drivers in
>> ActiveSync
>> are in fact installed
>>
>> As soon as I try to access the device, the whole problem disappears (as
>> does
>> the error message on the device) and ActiveSync suddenly starts working.
>>
>> Something in some recent Windows Update has compromised ActiveSync. I
>> suppose I should now go out and check on the site whether there is a new
>> version of Active Sync out there? If there isn't, they might take note of
>> this problem and try to cure it by figuring out what they have done to
>> cause
>> it. (It isn't easy to figure out if this is a temporary glitch or if
>> some
>> update has screwed up something at this stage)
>>
>> I should also add on a separate point that the newest Windows Updates
>> have
>> screwed up my sound settings which were working perfectly before the
>> restart
>> necessitated by the critical updates: No sounds now work on the computer.
>> As
>> an example of this, when I click the simple volume control in the
>> taskbar, I
>> get some arcane error message suddenly telling me that there are no
>> active
>> mixer devices available. It then pretends that if I go to Control Panel I
>> should be able to click printers and other hardware, (WRONG: There is no
>> sound functionality in PRINTERS in control panel) and install the mixer
>> devices. When I did this, all I got was some endless list of devices
>> including lots of sound devices, codecs, sound hardware devices (etc)
>> which
>> I think ARE installed and a question as to what I want to install.
>>
>> Is any reasonable Windows user supposed to be able to do whatever is
>> necessary to get his sound system working again by following this
>> procedure?
>>
>> Lastly I thought that critical updates were critical? Aren't they
>> supposed
>> to be applied immediately Microsoft has discovered that someone has
>> compromised the OS? Why then are there no updates for weeks when
>> auto-update is turned on and then suddenly a notification appears in the
>> systray telling me to install the critical updates which have been
>> downloaded and coincidentally there are five of them at once? Making it
>> difficult to ascertain which one (for example) has screwed up the sound
>> system
>>
>>
>>

Scroll down to TaurArian's post (9-1-2006) regarding the same error.
"apparently the updates did not complete installation upon reboot".
http://forums.techarena.in/showthrea...=434985&page=2

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"news.microsoft.com" wrote:

> The only mention of error is as follows:
> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler : Install completed: result type =
> 0x1, installer error = False, error = 0x80070bc2, disabled until reboot =
> No, reboot required = Yes
> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler :::::::::
> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler :: END :: Handler: Windows Patch
> Install
> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler :::::::::::::
> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 988 640 AU >>## RESUMED ## AU: Installing update
> [UpdateId = {C4331884-02B2-4420-9960-3D74A48EEFE8}, succeeded]
> which I dont think is an error?
>
> It seems only to have installed KB933566, KB935839, KB890830, KB935840,
> KB935840, KB929123, all apparently without a hitch??
>
> "Gistcheckin" <> wrote in message
> news:7AE13B65-5183-4F05-8DFE-...
> > Check you Windows Update Log. Post back the KBs as well as any error
> > messages that may have occurred.
> > Click Start, click Run, type %windir%\windowsupdate.log
> >
> > Scroll to the bottom for recent updates.
> >
> > --
> > Gistcheckin
> >
> >
> > "news.microsoft.com" wrote:
> >
> >> This problem seems to have arisen since my last Windows Update on my XP
> >> Home
> >> installation: Before then, ActiveSync 4.5 was working properly on my
> >> computer. In fact I installed it only a short time ago to get the
> >> computer
> >> to recognise my PDA which it did immediately
> >>
> >> Now the Wizard is reporting that it cannot connect to the computer as
> >> ActiveSync 4.5 isn't installed: However, while I am typing this I am
> >> going
> >> to Windows Explorer to see if I can tell you that the Wizard is
> >> recognised
> >> and I can access it through Explorer, meaning that the drivers in
> >> ActiveSync
> >> are in fact installed
> >>
> >> As soon as I try to access the device, the whole problem disappears (as
> >> does
> >> the error message on the device) and ActiveSync suddenly starts working.
> >>
> >> Something in some recent Windows Update has compromised ActiveSync. I
> >> suppose I should now go out and check on the site whether there is a new
> >> version of Active Sync out there? If there isn't, they might take note of
> >> this problem and try to cure it by figuring out what they have done to
> >> cause
> >> it. (It isn't easy to figure out if this is a temporary glitch or if
> >> some
> >> update has screwed up something at this stage)
> >>
> >> I should also add on a separate point that the newest Windows Updates
> >> have
> >> screwed up my sound settings which were working perfectly before the
> >> restart
> >> necessitated by the critical updates: No sounds now work on the computer.
> >> As
> >> an example of this, when I click the simple volume control in the
> >> taskbar, I
> >> get some arcane error message suddenly telling me that there are no
> >> active
> >> mixer devices available. It then pretends that if I go to Control Panel I
> >> should be able to click printers and other hardware, (WRONG: There is no
> >> sound functionality in PRINTERS in control panel) and install the mixer
> >> devices. When I did this, all I got was some endless list of devices
> >> including lots of sound devices, codecs, sound hardware devices (etc)
> >> which
> >> I think ARE installed and a question as to what I want to install.
> >>
> >> Is any reasonable Windows user supposed to be able to do whatever is
> >> necessary to get his sound system working again by following this
> >> procedure?
> >>
> >> Lastly I thought that critical updates were critical? Aren't they
> >> supposed
> >> to be applied immediately Microsoft has discovered that someone has
> >> compromised the OS? Why then are there no updates for weeks when
> >> auto-update is turned on and then suddenly a notification appears in the
> >> systray telling me to install the critical updates which have been
> >> downloaded and coincidentally there are five of them at once? Making it
> >> difficult to ascertain which one (for example) has screwed up the sound
> >> system
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

"Gistcheckin" <> wrote in message
news:2F319CA0-869E-4AA7-9917-...
> Scroll down to TaurArian's post (9-1-2006) regarding the same error.


Oh I see: I didnt realise it was an error, I thought it meant that the
update(s) coudnt take UNTIL reboot but would do so then. I am used to seeing
an error message when it does the update telling me that '5 updates were
unable to be successfully installed' which is apparently Redmond-syntax for
what you suggest: I didnt get any of these (or any of the error messages she
received just before the one I got which she found in her log), simply a
message telling me to restart.

I will give uninstalling the updates a try or re-run MicrosoftUpdate but are
these 13th June updates SUPPOSED TO have anything to do with the sound
system?

> "apparently the updates did not complete installation upon reboot".
> http://forums.techarena.in/showthrea...=434985&page=2
>
> --
> Gistcheckin
>
>
> "news.microsoft.com" wrote:
>
>> The only mention of error is as follows:
>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler : Install completed: result type =
>> 0x1, installer error = False, error = 0x80070bc2, disabled until reboot =
>> No, reboot required = Yes
>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler :::::::::
>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler :: END :: Handler: Windows Patch
>> Install
>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler :::::::::::::
>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 988 640 AU >>## RESUMED ## AU: Installing update
>> [UpdateId = {C4331884-02B2-4420-9960-3D74A48EEFE8}, succeeded]
>> which I dont think is an error?
>>
>> It seems only to have installed KB933566, KB935839, KB890830, KB935840,
>> KB935840, KB929123, all apparently without a hitch??
>>
>> "Gistcheckin" <> wrote in message
>> news:7AE13B65-5183-4F05-8DFE-...
>> > Check you Windows Update Log. Post back the KBs as well as any error
>> > messages that may have occurred.
>> > Click Start, click Run, type %windir%\windowsupdate.log
>> >
>> > Scroll to the bottom for recent updates.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Gistcheckin
>> >
>> >
>> > "news.microsoft.com" wrote:
>> >
>> >> This problem seems to have arisen since my last Windows Update on my
>> >> XP
>> >> Home
>> >> installation: Before then, ActiveSync 4.5 was working properly on my
>> >> computer. In fact I installed it only a short time ago to get the
>> >> computer
>> >> to recognise my PDA which it did immediately
>> >>
>> >> Now the Wizard is reporting that it cannot connect to the computer as
>> >> ActiveSync 4.5 isn't installed: However, while I am typing this I am
>> >> going
>> >> to Windows Explorer to see if I can tell you that the Wizard is
>> >> recognised
>> >> and I can access it through Explorer, meaning that the drivers in
>> >> ActiveSync
>> >> are in fact installed
>> >>
>> >> As soon as I try to access the device, the whole problem disappears
>> >> (as
>> >> does
>> >> the error message on the device) and ActiveSync suddenly starts
>> >> working.
>> >>
>> >> Something in some recent Windows Update has compromised ActiveSync. I
>> >> suppose I should now go out and check on the site whether there is a
>> >> new
>> >> version of Active Sync out there? If there isn't, they might take note
>> >> of
>> >> this problem and try to cure it by figuring out what they have done to
>> >> cause
>> >> it. (It isn't easy to figure out if this is a temporary glitch or if
>> >> some
>> >> update has screwed up something at this stage)
>> >>
>> >> I should also add on a separate point that the newest Windows Updates
>> >> have
>> >> screwed up my sound settings which were working perfectly before the
>> >> restart
>> >> necessitated by the critical updates: No sounds now work on the
>> >> computer.
>> >> As
>> >> an example of this, when I click the simple volume control in the
>> >> taskbar, I
>> >> get some arcane error message suddenly telling me that there are no
>> >> active
>> >> mixer devices available. It then pretends that if I go to Control
>> >> Panel I
>> >> should be able to click printers and other hardware, (WRONG: There is
>> >> no
>> >> sound functionality in PRINTERS in control panel) and install the
>> >> mixer
>> >> devices. When I did this, all I got was some endless list of devices
>> >> including lots of sound devices, codecs, sound hardware devices (etc)
>> >> which
>> >> I think ARE installed and a question as to what I want to install.
>> >>
>> >> Is any reasonable Windows user supposed to be able to do whatever is
>> >> necessary to get his sound system working again by following this
>> >> procedure?
>> >>
>> >> Lastly I thought that critical updates were critical? Aren't they
>> >> supposed
>> >> to be applied immediately Microsoft has discovered that someone has
>> >> compromised the OS? Why then are there no updates for weeks when
>> >> auto-update is turned on and then suddenly a notification appears in
>> >> the
>> >> systray telling me to install the critical updates which have been
>> >> downloaded and coincidentally there are five of them at once? Making
>> >> it
>> >> difficult to ascertain which one (for example) has screwed up the
>> >> sound
>> >> system
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>

"news.microsoft.com" <> wrote in message
news:%...
>
> "Gistcheckin" <> wrote in message
> news:2F319CA0-869E-4AA7-9917-...
>> Scroll down to TaurArian's post (9-1-2006) regarding the same error.
>
>
> Oh I see: I didnt realise it was an error, I thought it meant that the
> update(s) coudnt take UNTIL reboot but would do so then. I am used to
> seeing an error message when it does the update telling me that '5 updates
> were unable to be successfully installed' which is apparently
> Redmond-syntax for what you suggest: I didnt get any of these (or any of
> the error messages she received just before the one I got which she found
> in her log), simply a message telling me to restart.
>
> I will give uninstalling the updates a try
(Two of them werent there at all!)
or re-run MicrosoftUpdate but are
> these 13th June updates SUPPOSED TO have anything to do with the sound
> system?
(all the others said that removing them would have an effect on the VoIP
program whose sound system doesnt now work)
>
>> "apparently the updates did not complete installation upon reboot".
>> http://forums.techarena.in/showthrea...=434985&page=2
>>
>> --
>> Gistcheckin
>>
>>
>> "news.microsoft.com" wrote:
>>
>>> The only mention of error is as follows:
>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler : Install completed: result type
>>> =
>>> 0x1, installer error = False, error = 0x80070bc2, disabled until reboot
>>> =
>>> No, reboot required = Yes
>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler :::::::::
>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler :: END :: Handler: Windows Patch
>>> Install
>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler :::::::::::::
>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 988 640 AU >>## RESUMED ## AU: Installing update
>>> [UpdateId = {C4331884-02B2-4420-9960-3D74A48EEFE8}, succeeded]
>>> which I dont think is an error?
>>>
>>> It seems only to have installed KB933566, KB935839, KB890830, KB935840,
>>> KB935840, KB929123, all apparently without a hitch??
>>>
>>> "Gistcheckin" <> wrote in message
>>> news:7AE13B65-5183-4F05-8DFE-...
>>> > Check you Windows Update Log. Post back the KBs as well as any error
>>> > messages that may have occurred.
>>> > Click Start, click Run, type %windir%\windowsupdate.log
>>> >
>>> > Scroll to the bottom for recent updates.
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Gistcheckin
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > "news.microsoft.com" wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> This problem seems to have arisen since my last Windows Update on my
>>> >> XP
>>> >> Home
>>> >> installation: Before then, ActiveSync 4.5 was working properly on my
>>> >> computer. In fact I installed it only a short time ago to get the
>>> >> computer
>>> >> to recognise my PDA which it did immediately
>>> >>
>>> >> Now the Wizard is reporting that it cannot connect to the computer as
>>> >> ActiveSync 4.5 isn't installed: However, while I am typing this I am
>>> >> going
>>> >> to Windows Explorer to see if I can tell you that the Wizard is
>>> >> recognised
>>> >> and I can access it through Explorer, meaning that the drivers in
>>> >> ActiveSync
>>> >> are in fact installed
>>> >>
>>> >> As soon as I try to access the device, the whole problem disappears
>>> >> (as
>>> >> does
>>> >> the error message on the device) and ActiveSync suddenly starts
>>> >> working.
>>> >>
>>> >> Something in some recent Windows Update has compromised ActiveSync. I
>>> >> suppose I should now go out and check on the site whether there is a
>>> >> new
>>> >> version of Active Sync out there? If there isn't, they might take
>>> >> note of
>>> >> this problem and try to cure it by figuring out what they have done
>>> >> to
>>> >> cause
>>> >> it. (It isn't easy to figure out if this is a temporary glitch or if
>>> >> some
>>> >> update has screwed up something at this stage)
>>> >>
>>> >> I should also add on a separate point that the newest Windows Updates
>>> >> have
>>> >> screwed up my sound settings which were working perfectly before the
>>> >> restart
>>> >> necessitated by the critical updates: No sounds now work on the
>>> >> computer.
>>> >> As
>>> >> an example of this, when I click the simple volume control in the
>>> >> taskbar, I
>>> >> get some arcane error message suddenly telling me that there are no
>>> >> active
>>> >> mixer devices available. It then pretends that if I go to Control
>>> >> Panel I
>>> >> should be able to click printers and other hardware, (WRONG: There is
>>> >> no
>>> >> sound functionality in PRINTERS in control panel) and install the
>>> >> mixer
>>> >> devices. When I did this, all I got was some endless list of devices
>>> >> including lots of sound devices, codecs, sound hardware devices (etc)
>>> >> which
>>> >> I think ARE installed and a question as to what I want to install.
>>> >>
>>> >> Is any reasonable Windows user supposed to be able to do whatever is
>>> >> necessary to get his sound system working again by following this
>>> >> procedure?
>>> >>
>>> >> Lastly I thought that critical updates were critical? Aren't they
>>> >> supposed
>>> >> to be applied immediately Microsoft has discovered that someone has
>>> >> compromised the OS? Why then are there no updates for weeks when
>>> >> auto-update is turned on and then suddenly a notification appears in
>>> >> the
>>> >> systray telling me to install the critical updates which have been
>>> >> downloaded and coincidentally there are five of them at once? Making
>>> >> it
>>> >> difficult to ascertain which one (for example) has screwed up the
>>> >> sound
>>> >> system
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>

Uninstalling told me that Adaware and some VoIP service (with both of which
I was having the problem) wont work properly if I uninstall them: So I
uninstalled anyway and rebooted and ran MicrosoftUpdate which found KB933566
(a cumulative one), 935839, 935840 and some updates for OE and something
called CAPICOM after it went through yet another annoying and annoyingly
slow validation process. Then it downloaded 62 megabytes of updates and
immediately I clicked on INSTALL, gave me the error message without even
trying to install them that they were unable to be successfully installed

Is this now time for AutoPatcher or is there a way of installing them?
Through Safe Mode from the downloaded directories?

(The computer has also become slow as moving molasses even to paint its
icons on startup and even on clicking START-PROGRAMS, - though this may be
unrelated: I have tried Adaware, AV, SFC and defrags but nothing seems to
make any difference to this)

"news.microsoft.com" <> wrote in message
news:%...
>
> "news.microsoft.com" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>>
>> "Gistcheckin" <> wrote in message
>> news:2F319CA0-869E-4AA7-9917-...
>>> Scroll down to TaurArian's post (9-1-2006) regarding the same error.
>>
>>
>> Oh I see: I didnt realise it was an error, I thought it meant that the
>> update(s) coudnt take UNTIL reboot but would do so then. I am used to
>> seeing an error message when it does the update telling me that '5
>> updates were unable to be successfully installed' which is apparently
>> Redmond-syntax for what you suggest: I didnt get any of these (or any of
>> the error messages she received just before the one I got which she found
>> in her log), simply a message telling me to restart.
>>
>> I will give uninstalling the updates a try
> (Two of them werent there at all!)
> or re-run MicrosoftUpdate but are
>> these 13th June updates SUPPOSED TO have anything to do with the sound
>> system?
> (all the others said that removing them would have an effect on the VoIP
> program whose sound system doesnt now work)
>>
>>> "apparently the updates did not complete installation upon reboot".
>>> http://forums.techarena.in/showthrea...=434985&page=2
>>>
>>> --
>>> Gistcheckin
>>>
>>>
>>> "news.microsoft.com" wrote:
>>>
>>>> The only mention of error is as follows:
>>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler : Install completed: result type
>>>> =
>>>> 0x1, installer error = False, error = 0x80070bc2, disabled until reboot
>>>> =
>>>> No, reboot required = Yes
>>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler :::::::::
>>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler :: END :: Handler: Windows
>>>> Patch
>>>> Install
>>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler :::::::::::::
>>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 988 640 AU >>## RESUMED ## AU: Installing update
>>>> [UpdateId = {C4331884-02B2-4420-9960-3D74A48EEFE8}, succeeded]
>>>> which I dont think is an error?
>>>>
>>>> It seems only to have installed KB933566, KB935839, KB890830, KB935840,
>>>> KB935840, KB929123, all apparently without a hitch??
>>>>
>>>> "Gistcheckin" <> wrote in message
>>>> news:7AE13B65-5183-4F05-8DFE-...
>>>> > Check you Windows Update Log. Post back the KBs as well as any error
>>>> > messages that may have occurred.
>>>> > Click Start, click Run, type %windir%\windowsupdate.log
>>>> >
>>>> > Scroll to the bottom for recent updates.
>>>> >
>>>> > --
>>>> > Gistcheckin
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > "news.microsoft.com" wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> This problem seems to have arisen since my last Windows Update on my
>>>> >> XP
>>>> >> Home
>>>> >> installation: Before then, ActiveSync 4.5 was working properly on my
>>>> >> computer. In fact I installed it only a short time ago to get the
>>>> >> computer
>>>> >> to recognise my PDA which it did immediately
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Now the Wizard is reporting that it cannot connect to the computer
>>>> >> as
>>>> >> ActiveSync 4.5 isn't installed: However, while I am typing this I am
>>>> >> going
>>>> >> to Windows Explorer to see if I can tell you that the Wizard is
>>>> >> recognised
>>>> >> and I can access it through Explorer, meaning that the drivers in
>>>> >> ActiveSync
>>>> >> are in fact installed
>>>> >>
>>>> >> As soon as I try to access the device, the whole problem disappears
>>>> >> (as
>>>> >> does
>>>> >> the error message on the device) and ActiveSync suddenly starts
>>>> >> working.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Something in some recent Windows Update has compromised ActiveSync.
>>>> >> I
>>>> >> suppose I should now go out and check on the site whether there is a
>>>> >> new
>>>> >> version of Active Sync out there? If there isn't, they might take
>>>> >> note of
>>>> >> this problem and try to cure it by figuring out what they have done
>>>> >> to
>>>> >> cause
>>>> >> it. (It isn't easy to figure out if this is a temporary glitch or
>>>> >> if
>>>> >> some
>>>> >> update has screwed up something at this stage)
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I should also add on a separate point that the newest Windows
>>>> >> Updates
>>>> >> have
>>>> >> screwed up my sound settings which were working perfectly before the
>>>> >> restart
>>>> >> necessitated by the critical updates: No sounds now work on the
>>>> >> computer.
>>>> >> As
>>>> >> an example of this, when I click the simple volume control in the
>>>> >> taskbar, I
>>>> >> get some arcane error message suddenly telling me that there are no
>>>> >> active
>>>> >> mixer devices available. It then pretends that if I go to Control
>>>> >> Panel I
>>>> >> should be able to click printers and other hardware, (WRONG: There
>>>> >> is no
>>>> >> sound functionality in PRINTERS in control panel) and install the
>>>> >> mixer
>>>> >> devices. When I did this, all I got was some endless list of devices
>>>> >> including lots of sound devices, codecs, sound hardware devices
>>>> >> (etc)
>>>> >> which
>>>> >> I think ARE installed and a question as to what I want to install.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Is any reasonable Windows user supposed to be able to do whatever is
>>>> >> necessary to get his sound system working again by following this
>>>> >> procedure?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Lastly I thought that critical updates were critical? Aren't they
>>>> >> supposed
>>>> >> to be applied immediately Microsoft has discovered that someone has
>>>> >> compromised the OS? Why then are there no updates for weeks when
>>>> >> auto-update is turned on and then suddenly a notification appears in
>>>> >> the
>>>> >> systray telling me to install the critical updates which have been
>>>> >> downloaded and coincidentally there are five of them at once?
>>>> >> Making it
>>>> >> difficult to ascertain which one (for example) has screwed up the
>>>> >> sound
>>>> >> system
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>
>

Now it seems there was an erroneous error message: When the message appeared
in the taskbar saying 'click here to install downloaded updates', what it
meant was 'there is a window we have opened in the background which requests
Office Professional Install Disc to complete, then we will get on with
ACTUALLY installing these updates'

When I put Office Professional Install Disc in, all updates installed,
supposedly successfully, and it called for a reboot.

Now the log shows five similar logs (one for each of the updates):

2007-06-19 11:46:25 1776 110 Handler : Updates to install = 1
2007-06-19 11:46:25 1776 110 Handler : Installing update
{C2367B85-F734-481B-967E-6C8B6F4FEBA1}.101
2007-06-19 11:46:25 1776 a0 Handler Installing with parameters=-q -z -er,
sandbox=C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download\e 50981864c541bdea07741b88d379a52.
2007-06-19 11:46:30 972 674 Report REPORT EVENT:
{5D4BBD16-AE51-4177-AF6A-2846D59E8DBA} 2007-06-19 11:46:25-0500 1 184 101
{C4331884-02B2-4420-9960-3D74A48EEFE8} 101 0 MicrosoftUpdate Success Content
Install Installation successful and restart required for the following
update: Cumulative Security Update for Outlook Express for Windows XP
(KB929123)
2007-06-19 11:46:36 1776 a0 Handler Install completed with 0x80070bc2.
2007-06-19 11:46:36 1776 110 Handler : Install completed: result type =
0x1, installer error = False, error = 0x80070bc2, disabled until reboot =
No, reboot required = Yes
2007-06-19 11:46:36 1776 110 Handler :::::::::
2007-06-19 11:46:36 1776 110 Handler :: END :: Handler: Windows Patch
Install

followed by:

2007-06-19 12:06:21 956 4ec Agent * Found 0 updates and 26 categories in
search
2007-06-19 12:06:22 956 4ec Agent *********
2007-06-19 12:06:22 956 4ec Agent ** END ** Agent: Finding updates
[CallerId = AutomaticUpdates]



"news.microsoft.com" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> Uninstalling told me that Adaware and some VoIP service (with both of
> which I was having the problem) wont work properly if I uninstall them: So
> I uninstalled anyway and rebooted and ran MicrosoftUpdate which found
> KB933566 (a cumulative one), 935839, 935840 and some updates for OE and
> something called CAPICOM after it went through yet another annoying and
> annoyingly slow validation process. Then it downloaded 62 megabytes of
> updates and immediately I clicked on INSTALL, gave me the error message
> without even trying to install them that they were unable to be
> successfully installed
>
> Is this now time for AutoPatcher or is there a way of installing them?
> Through Safe Mode from the downloaded directories?
>
> (The computer has also become slow as moving molasses even to paint its
> icons on startup and even on clicking START-PROGRAMS, - though this may
> be unrelated: I have tried Adaware, AV, SFC and defrags but nothing seems
> to make any difference to this)
>
> "news.microsoft.com" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>>
>> "news.microsoft.com" <> wrote in message
>> news:%...
>>>
>>> "Gistcheckin" <> wrote in message
>>> news:2F319CA0-869E-4AA7-9917-...
>>>> Scroll down to TaurArian's post (9-1-2006) regarding the same error.
>>>
>>>
>>> Oh I see: I didnt realise it was an error, I thought it meant that the
>>> update(s) coudnt take UNTIL reboot but would do so then. I am used to
>>> seeing an error message when it does the update telling me that '5
>>> updates were unable to be successfully installed' which is apparently
>>> Redmond-syntax for what you suggest: I didnt get any of these (or any of
>>> the error messages she received just before the one I got which she
>>> found in her log), simply a message telling me to restart.
>>>
>>> I will give uninstalling the updates a try
>> (Two of them werent there at all!)
>> or re-run MicrosoftUpdate but are
>>> these 13th June updates SUPPOSED TO have anything to do with the sound
>>> system?
>> (all the others said that removing them would have an effect on the VoIP
>> program whose sound system doesnt now work)
>>>
>>>> "apparently the updates did not complete installation upon reboot".
>>>> http://forums.techarena.in/showthrea...=434985&page=2
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Gistcheckin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "news.microsoft.com" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The only mention of error is as follows:
>>>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler : Install completed: result
>>>>> type =
>>>>> 0x1, installer error = False, error = 0x80070bc2, disabled until
>>>>> reboot =
>>>>> No, reboot required = Yes
>>>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler :::::::::
>>>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler :: END :: Handler: Windows
>>>>> Patch
>>>>> Install
>>>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler :::::::::::::
>>>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 988 640 AU >>## RESUMED ## AU: Installing
>>>>> update
>>>>> [UpdateId = {C4331884-02B2-4420-9960-3D74A48EEFE8}, succeeded]
>>>>> which I dont think is an error?
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems only to have installed KB933566, KB935839, KB890830,
>>>>> KB935840,
>>>>> KB935840, KB929123, all apparently without a hitch??
>>>>>
>>>>> "Gistcheckin" <> wrote in message
>>>>> news:7AE13B65-5183-4F05-8DFE-...
>>>>> > Check you Windows Update Log. Post back the KBs as well as any
>>>>> > error
>>>>> > messages that may have occurred.
>>>>> > Click Start, click Run, type %windir%\windowsupdate.log
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Scroll to the bottom for recent updates.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > --
>>>>> > Gistcheckin
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > "news.microsoft.com" wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> >> This problem seems to have arisen since my last Windows Update on
>>>>> >> my XP
>>>>> >> Home
>>>>> >> installation: Before then, ActiveSync 4.5 was working properly on
>>>>> >> my
>>>>> >> computer. In fact I installed it only a short time ago to get the
>>>>> >> computer
>>>>> >> to recognise my PDA which it did immediately
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Now the Wizard is reporting that it cannot connect to the computer
>>>>> >> as
>>>>> >> ActiveSync 4.5 isn't installed: However, while I am typing this I
>>>>> >> am
>>>>> >> going
>>>>> >> to Windows Explorer to see if I can tell you that the Wizard is
>>>>> >> recognised
>>>>> >> and I can access it through Explorer, meaning that the drivers in
>>>>> >> ActiveSync
>>>>> >> are in fact installed
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> As soon as I try to access the device, the whole problem disappears
>>>>> >> (as
>>>>> >> does
>>>>> >> the error message on the device) and ActiveSync suddenly starts
>>>>> >> working.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Something in some recent Windows Update has compromised ActiveSync.
>>>>> >> I
>>>>> >> suppose I should now go out and check on the site whether there is
>>>>> >> a new
>>>>> >> version of Active Sync out there? If there isn't, they might take
>>>>> >> note of
>>>>> >> this problem and try to cure it by figuring out what they have done
>>>>> >> to
>>>>> >> cause
>>>>> >> it. (It isn't easy to figure out if this is a temporary glitch or
>>>>> >> if
>>>>> >> some
>>>>> >> update has screwed up something at this stage)
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> I should also add on a separate point that the newest Windows
>>>>> >> Updates
>>>>> >> have
>>>>> >> screwed up my sound settings which were working perfectly before
>>>>> >> the
>>>>> >> restart
>>>>> >> necessitated by the critical updates: No sounds now work on the
>>>>> >> computer.
>>>>> >> As
>>>>> >> an example of this, when I click the simple volume control in the
>>>>> >> taskbar, I
>>>>> >> get some arcane error message suddenly telling me that there are no
>>>>> >> active
>>>>> >> mixer devices available. It then pretends that if I go to Control
>>>>> >> Panel I
>>>>> >> should be able to click printers and other hardware, (WRONG: There
>>>>> >> is no
>>>>> >> sound functionality in PRINTERS in control panel) and install the
>>>>> >> mixer
>>>>> >> devices. When I did this, all I got was some endless list of
>>>>> >> devices
>>>>> >> including lots of sound devices, codecs, sound hardware devices
>>>>> >> (etc)
>>>>> >> which
>>>>> >> I think ARE installed and a question as to what I want to install.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Is any reasonable Windows user supposed to be able to do whatever
>>>>> >> is
>>>>> >> necessary to get his sound system working again by following this
>>>>> >> procedure?
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Lastly I thought that critical updates were critical? Aren't they
>>>>> >> supposed
>>>>> >> to be applied immediately Microsoft has discovered that someone has
>>>>> >> compromised the OS? Why then are there no updates for weeks when
>>>>> >> auto-update is turned on and then suddenly a notification appears
>>>>> >> in the
>>>>> >> systray telling me to install the critical updates which have been
>>>>> >> downloaded and coincidentally there are five of them at once?
>>>>> >> Making it
>>>>> >> difficult to ascertain which one (for example) has screwed up the
>>>>> >> sound
>>>>> >> system
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

See Critical Updates Info June 12th. You can view the Message links
regarding affected software.
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/894199

You might try the following:

Start>Run>Type in net.exe stop wuauserv
Press Ok
You should receive success message. Do the same for each entry below:

regsvr32 wuapi.dll
regsvr32 wups.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng.dll
regsvr32 wucltui.dll
regsvr32 msxml3.dll
regsvr32 atl.dll

net.exe start wuauserv


If none of the above works,

Contact Microsoft Windows Update Support - No Charge

https://support.microsoft.com/oas/de...spx?gprid=6527


--
Gistcheckin


"news.microsoft.com" wrote:

> Now it seems there was an erroneous error message: When the message appeared
> in the taskbar saying 'click here to install downloaded updates', what it
> meant was 'there is a window we have opened in the background which requests
> Office Professional Install Disc to complete, then we will get on with
> ACTUALLY installing these updates'
>
> When I put Office Professional Install Disc in, all updates installed,
> supposedly successfully, and it called for a reboot.
>
> Now the log shows five similar logs (one for each of the updates):
>
> 2007-06-19 11:46:25 1776 110 Handler : Updates to install = 1
> 2007-06-19 11:46:25 1776 110 Handler : Installing update
> {C2367B85-F734-481B-967E-6C8B6F4FEBA1}.101
> 2007-06-19 11:46:25 1776 a0 Handler Installing with parameters=-q -z -er,
> sandbox=C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download\e 50981864c541bdea07741b88d379a52.
> 2007-06-19 11:46:30 972 674 Report REPORT EVENT:
> {5D4BBD16-AE51-4177-AF6A-2846D59E8DBA} 2007-06-19 11:46:25-0500 1 184 101
> {C4331884-02B2-4420-9960-3D74A48EEFE8} 101 0 MicrosoftUpdate Success Content
> Install Installation successful and restart required for the following
> update: Cumulative Security Update for Outlook Express for Windows XP
> (KB929123)
> 2007-06-19 11:46:36 1776 a0 Handler Install completed with 0x80070bc2.
> 2007-06-19 11:46:36 1776 110 Handler : Install completed: result type =
> 0x1, installer error = False, error = 0x80070bc2, disabled until reboot =
> No, reboot required = Yes
> 2007-06-19 11:46:36 1776 110 Handler :::::::::
> 2007-06-19 11:46:36 1776 110 Handler :: END :: Handler: Windows Patch
> Install
>
> followed by:
>
> 2007-06-19 12:06:21 956 4ec Agent * Found 0 updates and 26 categories in
> search
> 2007-06-19 12:06:22 956 4ec Agent *********
> 2007-06-19 12:06:22 956 4ec Agent ** END ** Agent: Finding updates
> [CallerId = AutomaticUpdates]
>
>
>
> "news.microsoft.com" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
> > Uninstalling told me that Adaware and some VoIP service (with both of
> > which I was having the problem) wont work properly if I uninstall them: So
> > I uninstalled anyway and rebooted and ran MicrosoftUpdate which found
> > KB933566 (a cumulative one), 935839, 935840 and some updates for OE and
> > something called CAPICOM after it went through yet another annoying and
> > annoyingly slow validation process. Then it downloaded 62 megabytes of
> > updates and immediately I clicked on INSTALL, gave me the error message
> > without even trying to install them that they were unable to be
> > successfully installed
> >
> > Is this now time for AutoPatcher or is there a way of installing them?
> > Through Safe Mode from the downloaded directories?
> >
> > (The computer has also become slow as moving molasses even to paint its
> > icons on startup and even on clicking START-PROGRAMS, - though this may
> > be unrelated: I have tried Adaware, AV, SFC and defrags but nothing seems
> > to make any difference to this)
> >
> > "news.microsoft.com" <> wrote in message
> > news:%...
> >>
> >> "news.microsoft.com" <> wrote in message
> >> news:%...
> >>>
> >>> "Gistcheckin" <> wrote in message
> >>> news:2F319CA0-869E-4AA7-9917-...
> >>>> Scroll down to TaurArian's post (9-1-2006) regarding the same error.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Oh I see: I didnt realise it was an error, I thought it meant that the
> >>> update(s) coudnt take UNTIL reboot but would do so then. I am used to
> >>> seeing an error message when it does the update telling me that '5
> >>> updates were unable to be successfully installed' which is apparently
> >>> Redmond-syntax for what you suggest: I didnt get any of these (or any of
> >>> the error messages she received just before the one I got which she
> >>> found in her log), simply a message telling me to restart.
> >>>
> >>> I will give uninstalling the updates a try
> >> (Two of them werent there at all!)
> >> or re-run MicrosoftUpdate but are
> >>> these 13th June updates SUPPOSED TO have anything to do with the sound
> >>> system?
> >> (all the others said that removing them would have an effect on the VoIP
> >> program whose sound system doesnt now work)
> >>>
> >>>> "apparently the updates did not complete installation upon reboot".
> >>>> http://forums.techarena.in/showthrea...=434985&page=2
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Gistcheckin
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> "news.microsoft.com" wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> The only mention of error is as follows:
> >>>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler : Install completed: result
> >>>>> type =
> >>>>> 0x1, installer error = False, error = 0x80070bc2, disabled until
> >>>>> reboot =
> >>>>> No, reboot required = Yes
> >>>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler :::::::::
> >>>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler :: END :: Handler: Windows
> >>>>> Patch
> >>>>> Install
> >>>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler :::::::::::::
> >>>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 988 640 AU >>## RESUMED ## AU: Installing
> >>>>> update
> >>>>> [UpdateId = {C4331884-02B2-4420-9960-3D74A48EEFE8}, succeeded]
> >>>>> which I dont think is an error?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It seems only to have installed KB933566, KB935839, KB890830,
> >>>>> KB935840,
> >>>>> KB935840, KB929123, all apparently without a hitch??
> >>>>>
> >>>>> "Gistcheckin" <> wrote in message
> >>>>> news:7AE13B65-5183-4F05-8DFE-...
> >>>>> > Check you Windows Update Log. Post back the KBs as well as any
> >>>>> > error
> >>>>> > messages that may have occurred.
> >>>>> > Click Start, click Run, type %windir%\windowsupdate.log
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> > Scroll to the bottom for recent updates.
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> > --
> >>>>> > Gistcheckin
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> > "news.microsoft.com" wrote:
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> >> This problem seems to have arisen since my last Windows Update on
> >>>>> >> my XP
> >>>>> >> Home
> >>>>> >> installation: Before then, ActiveSync 4.5 was working properly on
> >>>>> >> my
> >>>>> >> computer. In fact I installed it only a short time ago to get the
> >>>>> >> computer
> >>>>> >> to recognise my PDA which it did immediately
> >>>>> >>
> >>>>> >> Now the Wizard is reporting that it cannot connect to the computer
> >>>>> >> as
> >>>>> >> ActiveSync 4.5 isn't installed: However, while I am typing this I
> >>>>> >> am
> >>>>> >> going
> >>>>> >> to Windows Explorer to see if I can tell you that the Wizard is
> >>>>> >> recognised
> >>>>> >> and I can access it through Explorer, meaning that the drivers in
> >>>>> >> ActiveSync
> >>>>> >> are in fact installed
> >>>>> >>
> >>>>> >> As soon as I try to access the device, the whole problem disappears
> >>>>> >> (as
> >>>>> >> does
> >>>>> >> the error message on the device) and ActiveSync suddenly starts
> >>>>> >> working.
> >>>>> >>
> >>>>> >> Something in some recent Windows Update has compromised ActiveSync.
> >>>>> >> I
> >>>>> >> suppose I should now go out and check on the site whether there is
> >>>>> >> a new
> >>>>> >> version of Active Sync out there? If there isn't, they might take
> >>>>> >> note of
> >>>>> >> this problem and try to cure it by figuring out what they have done
> >>>>> >> to
> >>>>> >> cause
> >>>>> >> it. (It isn't easy to figure out if this is a temporary glitch or
> >>>>> >> if
> >>>>> >> some
> >>>>> >> update has screwed up something at this stage)
> >>>>> >>
> >>>>> >> I should also add on a separate point that the newest Windows
> >>>>> >> Updates
> >>>>> >> have
> >>>>> >> screwed up my sound settings which were working perfectly before
> >>>>> >> the
> >>>>> >> restart
> >>>>> >> necessitated by the critical updates: No sounds now work on the
> >>>>> >> computer.
> >>>>> >> As
> >>>>> >> an example of this, when I click the simple volume control in the
> >>>>> >> taskbar, I
> >>>>> >> get some arcane error message suddenly telling me that there are no
> >>>>> >> active
> >>>>> >> mixer devices available. It then pretends that if I go to Control
> >>>>> >> Panel I
> >>>>> >> should be able to click printers and other hardware, (WRONG: There
> >>>>> >> is no
> >>>>> >> sound functionality in PRINTERS in control panel) and install the
> >>>>> >> mixer
> >>>>> >> devices. When I did this, all I got was some endless list of
> >>>>> >> devices
> >>>>> >> including lots of sound devices, codecs, sound hardware devices
> >>>>> >> (etc)
> >>>>> >> which
> >>>>> >> I think ARE installed and a question as to what I want to install.
> >>>>> >>
> >>>>> >> Is any reasonable Windows user supposed to be able to do whatever
> >>>>> >> is
> >>>>> >> necessary to get his sound system working again by following this
> >>>>> >> procedure?
> >>>>> >>
> >>>>> >> Lastly I thought that critical updates were critical? Aren't they
> >>>>> >> supposed
> >>>>> >> to be applied immediately Microsoft has discovered that someone has
> >>>>> >> compromised the OS? Why then are there no updates for weeks when
> >>>>> >> auto-update is turned on and then suddenly a notification appears
> >>>>> >> in the
> >>>>> >> systray telling me to install the critical updates which have been
> >>>>> >> downloaded and coincidentally there are five of them at once?
> >>>>> >> Making it
> >>>>> >> difficult to ascertain which one (for example) has screwed up the
> >>>>> >> sound
> >>>>> >> system
> >>>>> >>
> >>>>> >>
> >>>>> >>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>

Restarting let it try to install 17 more security updates, of which

Security Update for Office XP (KB920821)
Security Update for Office XP (KB934705)
Security Update for Office XP (KB920816)
Security Update for SharePoint Team Services (KB911701)
Update for Office XP (KB913471)
Security Update for Publisher 2002 (KB894541)
Security Update for Office XP (KB914796)

didn't install. And they didn't install on restarting and trying again
either

"Gistcheckin" <> wrote in message
news:FA011C21-AFA0-4F74-B0DF-...
> See Critical Updates Info June 12th. You can view the Message links
> regarding affected software.
> http://support.microsoft.com/KB/894199
>
> You might try the following:
>
> Start>Run>Type in net.exe stop wuauserv
> Press Ok
> You should receive success message. Do the same for each entry below:
>
> regsvr32 wuapi.dll
> regsvr32 wups.dll
> regsvr32 wuaueng.dll
> regsvr32 wucltui.dll
> regsvr32 msxml3.dll
> regsvr32 atl.dll
>
> net.exe start wuauserv
>
(Many thanks but: Going through the above procedure resulted in the same
error message I mentioned above)
> If none of the above works,
>
> Contact Microsoft Windows Update Support - No Charge
>
> https://support.microsoft.com/oas/de...spx?gprid=6527
>
>
> --
> Gistcheckin
>
>
> "news.microsoft.com" wrote:
>
>> Now it seems there was an erroneous error message: When the message
>> appeared
>> in the taskbar saying 'click here to install downloaded updates', what it
>> meant was 'there is a window we have opened in the background which
>> requests
>> Office Professional Install Disc to complete, then we will get on with
>> ACTUALLY installing these updates'
>>
>> When I put Office Professional Install Disc in, all updates installed,
>> supposedly successfully, and it called for a reboot.
>>
>> Now the log shows five similar logs (one for each of the updates):
>>
>> 2007-06-19 11:46:25 1776 110 Handler : Updates to install = 1
>> 2007-06-19 11:46:25 1776 110 Handler : Installing update
>> {C2367B85-F734-481B-967E-6C8B6F4FEBA1}.101
>> 2007-06-19 11:46:25 1776 a0 Handler Installing with
>> parameters=-q -z -er,
>> sandbox=C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download\e 50981864c541bdea07741b88d379a52.
>> 2007-06-19 11:46:30 972 674 Report REPORT EVENT:
>> {5D4BBD16-AE51-4177-AF6A-2846D59E8DBA} 2007-06-19 11:46:25-0500 1 184 101
>> {C4331884-02B2-4420-9960-3D74A48EEFE8} 101 0 MicrosoftUpdate Success
>> Content
>> Install Installation successful and restart required for the following
>> update: Cumulative Security Update for Outlook Express for Windows XP
>> (KB929123)
>> 2007-06-19 11:46:36 1776 a0 Handler Install completed with 0x80070bc2.
>> 2007-06-19 11:46:36 1776 110 Handler : Install completed: result type =
>> 0x1, installer error = False, error = 0x80070bc2, disabled until reboot =
>> No, reboot required = Yes
>> 2007-06-19 11:46:36 1776 110 Handler :::::::::
>> 2007-06-19 11:46:36 1776 110 Handler :: END :: Handler: Windows Patch
>> Install
>>
>> followed by:
>>
>> 2007-06-19 12:06:21 956 4ec Agent * Found 0 updates and 26 categories
>> in
>> search
>> 2007-06-19 12:06:22 956 4ec Agent *********
>> 2007-06-19 12:06:22 956 4ec Agent ** END ** Agent: Finding updates
>> [CallerId = AutomaticUpdates]
>>
>>
>>
>> "news.microsoft.com" <> wrote in message
>> news:%...
>> > Uninstalling told me that Adaware and some VoIP service (with both of
>> > which I was having the problem) wont work properly if I uninstall them:
>> > So
>> > I uninstalled anyway and rebooted and ran MicrosoftUpdate which found
>> > KB933566 (a cumulative one), 935839, 935840 and some updates for OE and
>> > something called CAPICOM after it went through yet another annoying and
>> > annoyingly slow validation process. Then it downloaded 62 megabytes of
>> > updates and immediately I clicked on INSTALL, gave me the error message
>> > without even trying to install them that they were unable to be
>> > successfully installed
>> >
>> > Is this now time for AutoPatcher or is there a way of installing them?
>> > Through Safe Mode from the downloaded directories?
>> >
>> > (The computer has also become slow as moving molasses even to paint its
>> > icons on startup and even on clicking START-PROGRAMS, - though this
>> > may
>> > be unrelated: I have tried Adaware, AV, SFC and defrags but nothing
>> > seems
>> > to make any difference to this)
>> >
>> > "news.microsoft.com" <> wrote in message
>> > news:%...
>> >>
>> >> "news.microsoft.com" <> wrote in message
>> >> news:%...
>> >>>
>> >>> "Gistcheckin" <> wrote in
>> >>> message
>> >>> news:2F319CA0-869E-4AA7-9917-...
>> >>>> Scroll down to TaurArian's post (9-1-2006) regarding the same error.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Oh I see: I didnt realise it was an error, I thought it meant that
>> >>> the
>> >>> update(s) coudnt take UNTIL reboot but would do so then. I am used to
>> >>> seeing an error message when it does the update telling me that '5
>> >>> updates were unable to be successfully installed' which is
>> >>> apparently
>> >>> Redmond-syntax for what you suggest: I didnt get any of these (or any
>> >>> of
>> >>> the error messages she received just before the one I got which she
>> >>> found in her log), simply a message telling me to restart.
>> >>>
>> >>> I will give uninstalling the updates a try
>> >> (Two of them werent there at all!)
>> >> or re-run MicrosoftUpdate but are
>> >>> these 13th June updates SUPPOSED TO have anything to do with the
>> >>> sound
>> >>> system?
>> >> (all the others said that removing them would have an effect on the
>> >> VoIP
>> >> program whose sound system doesnt now work)
>> >>>
>> >>>> "apparently the updates did not complete installation upon reboot".
>> >>>> http://forums.techarena.in/showthrea...=434985&page=2
>> >>>>
>> >>>> --
>> >>>> Gistcheckin
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> "news.microsoft.com" wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> The only mention of error is as follows:
>> >>>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler : Install completed: result
>> >>>>> type =
>> >>>>> 0x1, installer error = False, error = 0x80070bc2, disabled until
>> >>>>> reboot =
>> >>>>> No, reboot required = Yes
>> >>>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler :::::::::
>> >>>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler :: END :: Handler: Windows
>> >>>>> Patch
>> >>>>> Install
>> >>>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 2796 d50 Handler :::::::::::::
>> >>>>> 2007-06-13 17:35:55 988 640 AU >>## RESUMED ## AU: Installing
>> >>>>> update
>> >>>>> [UpdateId = {C4331884-02B2-4420-9960-3D74A48EEFE8}, succeeded]
>> >>>>> which I dont think is an error?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> It seems only to have installed KB933566, KB935839, KB890830,
>> >>>>> KB935840,
>> >>>>> KB935840, KB929123, all apparently without a hitch??
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> "Gistcheckin" <> wrote in
>> >>>>> message
>> >>>>> news:7AE13B65-5183-4F05-8DFE-...
>> >>>>> > Check you Windows Update Log. Post back the KBs as well as any
>> >>>>> > error
>> >>>>> > messages that may have occurred.
>> >>>>> > Click Start, click Run, type %windir%\windowsupdate.log
>> >>>>> >
>> >>>>> > Scroll to the bottom for recent updates.
>> >>>>> >
>> >>>>> > --
>> >>>>> > Gistcheckin
>> >>>>> >
>> >>>>> >
>> >>>>> > "news.microsoft.com" wrote:
>> >>>>> >
>> >>>>> >> This problem seems to have arisen since my last Windows Update
>> >>>>> >> on
>> >>>>> >> my XP
>> >>>>> >> Home
>> >>>>> >> installation: Before then, ActiveSync 4.5 was working properly
>> >>>>> >> on
>> >>>>> >> my
>> >>>>> >> computer. In fact I installed it only a short time ago to get
>> >>>>> >> the
>> >>>>> >> computer
>> >>>>> >> to recognise my PDA which it did immediately
>> >>>>> >>
>> >>>>> >> Now the Wizard is reporting that it cannot connect to the
>> >>>>> >> computer
>> >>>>> >> as
>> >>>>> >> ActiveSync 4.5 isn't installed: However, while I am typing this
>> >>>>> >> I
>> >>>>> >> am
>> >>>>> >> going
>> >>>>> >> to Windows Explorer to see if I can tell you that the Wizard is
>> >>>>> >> recognised
>> >>>>> >> and I can access it through Explorer, meaning that the drivers
>> >>>>> >> in
>> >>>>> >> ActiveSync
>> >>>>> >> are in fact installed
>> >>>>> >>
>> >>>>> >> As soon as I try to access the device, the whole problem
>> >>>>> >> disappears
>> >>>>> >> (as
>> >>>>> >> does
>> >>>>> >> the error message on the device) and ActiveSync suddenly starts
>> >>>>> >> working.
>> >>>>> >>
>> >>>>> >> Something in some recent Windows Update has compromised
>> >>>>> >> ActiveSync.
>> >>>>> >> I
>> >>>>> >> suppose I should now go out and check on the site whether there
>> >>>>> >> is
>> >>>>> >> a new
>> >>>>> >> version of Active Sync out there? If there isn't, they might
>> >>>>> >> take
>> >>>>> >> note of
>> >>>>> >> this problem and try to cure it by figuring out what they have
>> >>>>> >> done
>> >>>>> >> to
>> >>>>> >> cause
>> >>>>> >> it. (It isn't easy to figure out if this is a temporary glitch
>> >>>>> >> or
>> >>>>> >> if
>> >>>>> >> some
>> >>>>> >> update has screwed up something at this stage)
>> >>>>> >>
>> >>>>> >> I should also add on a separate point that the newest Windows
>> >>>>> >> Updates
>> >>>>> >> have
>> >>>>> >> screwed up my sound settings which were working perfectly before
>> >>>>> >> the
>> >>>>> >> restart
>> >>>>> >> necessitated by the critical updates: No sounds now work on the
>> >>>>> >> computer.
>> >>>>> >> As
>> >>>>> >> an example of this, when I click the simple volume control in
>> >>>>> >> the
>> >>>>> >> taskbar, I
>> >>>>> >> get some arcane error message suddenly telling me that there are
>> >>>>> >> no
>> >>>>> >> active
>> >>>>> >> mixer devices available. It then pretends that if I go to
>> >>>>> >> Control
>> >>>>> >> Panel I
>> >>>>> >> should be able to click printers and other hardware, (WRONG:
>> >>>>> >> There
>> >>>>> >> is no
>> >>>>> >> sound functionality in PRINTERS in control panel) and install
>> >>>>> >> the
>> >>>>> >> mixer
>> >>>>> >> devices. When I did this, all I got was some endless list of
>> >>>>> >> devices
>> >>>>> >> including lots of sound devices, codecs, sound hardware devices
>> >>>>> >> (etc)
>> >>>>> >> which
>> >>>>> >> I think ARE installed and a question as to what I want to
>> >>>>> >> install.
>> >>>>> >>
>> >>>>> >> Is any reasonable Windows user supposed to be able to do
>> >>>>> >> whatever
>> >>>>> >> is
>> >>>>> >> necessary to get his sound system working again by following
>> >>>>> >> this
>> >>>>> >> procedure?
>> >>>>> >>
>> >>>>> >> Lastly I thought that critical updates were critical? Aren't
>> >>>>> >> they
>> >>>>> >> supposed
>> >>>>> >> to be applied immediately Microsoft has discovered that someone
>> >>>>> >> has
>> >>>>> >> compromised the OS? Why then are there no updates for weeks
>> >>>>> >> when
>> >>>>> >> auto-update is turned on and then suddenly a notification
>> >>>>> >> appears
>> >>>>> >> in the
>> >>>>> >> systray telling me to install the critical updates which have
>> >>>>> >> been
>> >>>>> >> downloaded and coincidentally there are five of them at once?
>> >>>>> >> Making it
>> >>>>> >> difficult to ascertain which one (for example) has screwed up
>> >>>>> >> the
>> >>>>> >> sound
>> >>>>> >> system
>> >>>>> >>
>> >>>>> >>
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