Same update keeps installing - Windows XP Home

Security Update for Windows XP (KB890046) keeps installing and restarting the
PC. After what appears to be a successful update and re-start, Microsoft
Update reports that it still needs to be installed. This just keeps going
around and around, with the PC continually re-starting if I leave the PC on
Automatic Update.
Temporarily, I have had to hide the uptate, but this is not an ideal solution.
I have tried uninstalling Norton Internet Security, Ad-Aware, Spybot Search
& Destroy and Microsoft Antispyware, but it makes no difference.
The first time that the update installed, I do remember a pop-up message
asking permission to modify the registry. I did not realise that it was
probably related to the Windows update, so this may be the cause of my
problem. However, there is no obvious way to fix this - unless someone can
let me know exactly which registry entry I need to change in order to
convince windows hat the update has been installed.
Any advice will be much appreciated.

Start here: http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/needagain.htm

1. See the "Need more help? Tell us what problem you are having" section of
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=ph;en-us;6527

2. You cannot install some updates or programs
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;822798

3a. Check Windowsupdate.log (%windir%\Windowsupdate.log) for errors
associated with the download/install.

How to read the Windowsupdate.log file:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=902093

3b. Compare errors to those listed here:
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/archive...date_codes.htm and/or go to
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com > click on Help and Support link in left
pane > Solve problems on your own.

4. Windows Update Checklist:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/updtcl.htm
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE) & Security

Parbrook wrote:
> Security Update for Windows XP (KB890046) keeps installing and restarting
> the PC. After what appears to be a successful update and re-start,
> Microsoft Update reports that it still needs to be installed. This just
> keeps going around and around, with the PC continually re-starting if I
> leave the PC on Automatic Update.
> Temporarily, I have had to hide the uptate, but this is not an ideal
> solution. I have tried uninstalling Norton Internet Security, Ad-Aware,
> Spybot Search & Destroy and Microsoft Antispyware, but it makes no
> difference.
> The first time that the update installed, I do remember a pop-up message
> asking permission to modify the registry. I did not realise that it was
> probably related to the Windows update, so this may be the cause of my
> problem. However, there is no obvious way to fix this - unless someone
> can let me know exactly which registry entry I need to change in order to
> convince windows hat the update has been installed.
> Any advice will be much appreciated.

Download and install the update directly:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../MS05-032.mspx

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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"Parbrook" wrote:

| Security Update for Windows XP (KB890046) keeps installing and restarting the
| PC. After what appears to be a successful update and re-start, Microsoft
| Update reports that it still needs to be installed. This just keeps going
| around and around, with the PC continually re-starting if I leave the PC on
| Automatic Update.
| Temporarily, I have had to hide the uptate, but this is not an ideal solution.
| I have tried uninstalling Norton Internet Security, Ad-Aware, Spybot Search
| & Destroy and Microsoft Antispyware, but it makes no difference.
| The first time that the update installed, I do remember a pop-up message
| asking permission to modify the registry. I did not realise that it was
| probably related to the Windows update, so this may be the cause of my
| problem. However, there is no obvious way to fix this - unless someone can
| let me know exactly which registry entry I need to change in order to
| convince windows hat the update has been installed.
| Any advice will be much appreciated.