Unable to successfully install high priority updates

I still have not installed WinXP Service Pack 2 and therefore get other high
priority updates for installation. Today I have several such updates for
installation but after several attempts was not able to install them
successfully. With each attempt I get a message that the updates were not
installed successfully. I have never had problems before installing updates
manually. Can someone offer an explanation or solution to my problem.
Thanks.

Hummer5 wrote:

> I still have not installed WinXP Service Pack 2 and therefore get other high
> priority updates for installation. Today I have several such updates for
> installation but after several attempts was not able to install them
> successfully. With each attempt I get a message that the updates were not
> installed successfully. I have never had problems before installing updates
> manually. Can someone offer an explanation or solution to my problem.
Hi

See if this helps (disregard the SP2 reference):

Go to
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSP2.htm#C...Service_Pack_2

Look for fixdb.bat under "Error 0x800710D9 Unable to read from
or write to the database". Download and run it.


If that didn't help:

Look for any specific error messages or error numbers in
windowsupdate.log.

From Start/Run run this exact command:

notepad %windir%\windowsupdate.log

See if you can find any clues and/or error massages/numbers there and
post e.g. the last 30 lines of that log here.



--
torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...r/default.mspx

After accessing and reading the site you referred me to, I then again
attempted installation in the same manner as before and all the installs
were successful. I did not do anything different between my first attempt and
the latter, but it worked the second time. Nevertheless, I thank you for
your time and advice. Also, the article you referred me to was very
informative, eventhough I probably did not retain it all. I salute you for
sharing your time and knowledge so that others like myself can learn and
become more knowledgeable. Thanks again.


> Hummer5 wrote:
>
> > I still have not installed WinXP Service Pack 2 and therefore get other high
> > priority updates for installation. Today I have several such updates for
> > installation but after several attempts was not able to install them
> > successfully. With each attempt I get a message that the updates were not
> > installed successfully. I have never had problems before installing updates
> > manually. Can someone offer an explanation or solution to my problem.
> Hi
>
> See if this helps (disregard the SP2 reference):
>
> Go to
> http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSP2.htm#C...Service_Pack_2
>
> Look for fixdb.bat under "Error 0x800710D9 Unable to read from
> or write to the database". Download and run it.
>
>
> If that didn't help:
>
> Look for any specific error messages or error numbers in
> windowsupdate.log.
>
> From Start/Run run this exact command:
>
> notepad %windir%\windowsupdate.log
>
> See if you can find any clues and/or error massages/numbers there and
> post e.g. the last 30 lines of that log here.
>
>
>
> --
> torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
> Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
> the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...r/default.mspx
>

Thank you, torgeir! Your suggestion worked for me!

Fred Goodwin

"Hummer5" <> wrote in message
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> After accessing and reading the site you referred me to, I then again
> attempted installation in the same manner as before and all the
> installs
> were successful. I did not do anything different between my first
> attempt and
> the latter, but it worked the second time. Nevertheless, I thank you
> for
> your time and advice. Also, the article you referred me to was very
> informative, eventhough I probably did not retain it all. I salute
> you for
> sharing your time and knowledge so that others like myself can learn
> and
> become more knowledgeable. Thanks again.
>
>
> > Hummer5 wrote:
>>
>> > I still have not installed WinXP Service Pack 2 and therefore get
>> > other high
>> > priority updates for installation. Today I have several such
>> > updates for
>> > installation but after several attempts was not able to install
>> > them
>> > successfully. With each attempt I get a message that the updates
>> > were not
>> > installed successfully. I have never had problems before
>> > installing updates
>> > manually. Can someone offer an explanation or solution to my
>> > problem.
>> Hi
>>
>> See if this helps (disregard the SP2 reference):
>>
>> Go to
>> http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSP2.htm#C...Service_Pack_2
>>
>> Look for fixdb.bat under "Error 0x800710D9 Unable to read from
>> or write to the database". Download and run it.
>>
>>
>> If that didn't help:
>>
>> Look for any specific error messages or error numbers in
>> windowsupdate.log.
>>
>> From Start/Run run this exact command:
>>
>> notepad %windir%\windowsupdate.log
>>
>> See if you can find any clues and/or error massages/numbers there and
>> post e.g. the last 30 lines of that log here.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
>> Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
>> the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...r/default.mspx
>>