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Windows Update unable to install 53 security updates

Rottie

Rottie

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Windows Updates is not able to update 53 secuirty fixes I have been searching for informations from MS sites and googled with no answer I am thinking about clean install it over again. I think Windows XP Pro sp2 is not very a perfect or stable OS. Because I had XP problems many times less than a year.

So should I reformat and clean install XP? I hate it because format took several hours on 400GB hd.
 
you are doing something wrong, never heard of this

there is a link to the log when it fails and you should look in there why it's failing
 
Originally posted by: alent1234
you are doing something wrong, never heard of this

there is a link to the log when it fails and you should look in there why it's failing
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yeah it says something that my system is preventing Update from installing fixes and also I tried to fix what link suggested but no go
 
Originally posted by: Rottie
Originally posted by: MrChad
Why would you have 53 updates pending?
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it says there are new security fixes after sept 26 2006 to now.
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There have been, at most, a dozen fixes released since September. It sounds like something else is wrong.
 
Originally posted by: MrChad
There have been, at most, a dozen fixes released since September. It sounds like something else is wrong.
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53 patches is about how many you'd see with a totally "unpatched" Windows XP SP2 installation.

I've seen a few PCs that didn't want to accept updates and required careful review of the Windows Update log file to determine how to fix the problem. I've never had one that wasn't fixable, and I haven't seen this behavior lately.
 
Try just installing like 5 at a time. Then see if it still fails.
Sometimes too many at once is just something the cpu
or the os can't handle.
 
Ok guys I took John's sugguestion with Step #1 Perform a Repair Installation then XP finally updated all but just only one would not update security fixes. So I will try onle secuirty fix later
 
One workaround might be to use Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.0 to identify the necessary patches, then download them and run them using the links that Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer will provide. If you have a system that passes Windows Genuine Advantage, you can download MBSA 2.0 from here. Very easy to use.
 
Have you checked your system time to make sure it is correct? If so, just try again!

Sometimes I had a single patch that should be installed seperately, but the computer would still download all of the patches. After that patch installed the update would work normally again.
 
Originally posted by: bruceb
Try just installing like 5 at a time. Then see if it still fails.
Sometimes too many at once is just something the cpu
or the os can't handle.
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Huh? It's just a list of tasks to peform, and the patcher goes through them one at a time. First it downloads all the update cabs, and then it runs the installer on each of them. CPU load has nothing to do with it. Either there are version problems with existing files and the patcher can't figure it out, or there are permissions issues preventing it from writing files, or perhaps there are lock issues that are keeping it from restarting processes or writing files. Given that the OP has reported that XP thinks it needs 53 patches, which is more than have been released in the time frame noted, I think the install is fubared. I would reformat.
 
haven't seen it on XP, but on Win 2003 Server there is a bug with one of the updates if you install all at once it hoses your server
 
Originally posted by: SilentRunning
You are not trying to update from a limited account are you? That would cause a similar issue to the one you are having.
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I am using adm acct.
 
Originally posted by: InlineFive
Have you checked your system time to make sure it is correct? If so, just try again!

Sometimes I had a single patch that should be installed seperately, but the computer would still download all of the patches. After that patch installed the update would work normally again.
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yes I remember BIOS messed up system clock when I flashed latest BIOS and cleared cmos I was not thinking about system clock after clear cmos.
 
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