windows update install failure

ok here goes,have downloaded over 85 files from windows update
site,however,when they try to install they fail each time,I don't receive any
error code,only that they failed to install. I have also,attempted to update
my windows media player,but that fails to install also. Would appreciate any
input,please laymen terms only,otherwise you will lose me.Thanks people,and
here's hoping

"gary" wrote:

> ok here goes,have downloaded over 85 files from windows update
> site,however,when they try to install they fail each time,I don't receive any
> error code,only that they failed to install. I have also,attempted to update
> my windows media player,but that fails to install also. Would appreciate any
> input,please laymen terms only,otherwise you will lose me.Thanks people,and
> here's hoping

gary wrote:
> ok here goes,have downloaded over 85 files from windows update
> site,however,when they try to install they fail each time,I don't
> receive any error code,only that they failed to install. I have
> also,attempted to update my windows media player,but that fails to
> install also. Would appreciate any input,please laymen terms
> only,otherwise you will lose me.Thanks people,and here's hoping

Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update,
from Microsoft Update, or by using Automatic Updates after
you repair a Windows XP installation
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144

(Try it even if you did a clean, not repair, installation.)
(Try it even if you performed some sort of restore - not repair install.)
(Try it even if you did an upgrade installation.)

Do all suggested methods.

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