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RE: UPDATE hangs PC

 
 
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      01-15-2007
yep - now fixed myself same way.
booted with minimal drivers, stopped/started automatic update and windows
install services, and the updates through website worked okay.



"BrainDead" wrote:

> I had to perform a manual update (go to update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate)
> and the update ran successfully and I stopped getting this error. Obviously
> the manual update through IE does something different than the automatice
> update process.
>
> "TX-PC" wrote:
>
> > I was allowing the latest update to install. I was able to use IE for a
> > while but finally every application was locked. I allowed the update
> > installation to work for an hour without touching the PC. I finally had to
> > find a way to reboot. I get a "svchost.exe" error.
> >
> > Please help!

 
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