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Problems with Microsoft Updates in Windows XP Pro SP2

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Salvador

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I'm having problems with Microsoft updates. Per someone's advice, I did a Repair install (not from the repair console) with Windows XP SP2. Everything seems to work fine, but I'm having problems installing Microsoft updates now. At first, it wouldn't let me install the Windows Installer 3.1 and the Authentification Tool. I did a google search and someone got those two installed, but now all the updates say that they can't be installed for some reason. Someone suggested that I use third party update software, but since it's not my pc, I'd like to be able to retain the MS automatic updates for the system.

Any ideas on how to fix this?
 
not sure.

i'd try doing yet another repair install - perhaps the 2nd time will work out better.
 
I got it figured out. I did all kinds of searches and tried all kinds of registry fixes. Nothing worked. I finally gave up and gave Getautopatcher a try. If that didn't work, I resigned myself to reinstalling Windows. I did the updates through Getautopatcher and then just for the heck of it, tried Microsoft update. It found that I needed 8 updates instead of the 75 prior to using Getautoupdate. It then downloaded them and installed them. So... Auto Update now works since I used Getautoupdate. Go figure... :roll:
 
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