windows update causes freeze

when clicking on windows update or other tabs related to downloading sp2
screen either freezes or the download progress box remains blank and the
screen freezes.

There are alternatives for obtaining SP2

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...s/default.mspx
Order Windows XP Service Pack 2 on CD

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
Windows XP Service Pack 2

Service Pack 2 information
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/xpsp2.htm
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spackins.htm
http://www.windowstalk.org/sp2.htm



sphinx wrote:
> when clicking on windows update or other tabs related to downloading
> sp2 screen either freezes or the download progress box remains blank
> and the screen freezes.

Thanks. Will try these. Actually, since I last posted it appeared that sp2
had downloaded and installed. But when checking programs discovered only some
of the "hotfix" KB files had downloaded. This morning had the "updates are
available" panel pop up to indicate I needed SP2. So I went ahead and began
the download, which is currently hanging at 59% after more than an hour,the
system having shut down the modem in the meantime. I tried some of the
manipulation suggest by someone yesterday and that did help some but now hung
up again only differently.

"TaurArian" wrote:

> There are alternatives for obtaining SP2
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...s/default.mspx
> Order Windows XP Service Pack 2 on CD
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
> Windows XP Service Pack 2
>
> Service Pack 2 information
> http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/xpsp2.htm
> http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spackins.htm
> http://www.windowstalk.org/sp2.htm
>
>
>
> sphinx wrote:
> > when clicking on windows update or other tabs related to downloading
> > sp2 screen either freezes or the download progress box remains blank
> > and the screen freezes.
>
>