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Automatic Updates Download, But Don't Install

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by skv00

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about a week ago i had a winsock error and had to repair windows and re-activate. ever since then the automatic updates download but fail to install, any ideas what could be causing this??? I am running Windows XP Pro SP2.

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by older mycroft

Navigate to Start > Control Panel > Automatic Updates.

Uncheck the bullet point for "Download updates for me, but let me choose when to install them."

The windows repair may have checked the box.

by sojrner

I had the same problem. I had both a firewall and Virus software that was not letting me download the update. I had to quit both and then go to the Microsoft website in order to get them to work correctly. That is assuming that you can connect to any other site on the internet

by russell.profitt

I am having the same problem. After repairing a Windows XP Pro SP2 machine from a WINSOCK error, I can download but not install any updates. They always fail. Have you found a solution to this problem? Thanks

by fblorf

I had this problem with a new install of XP Professional. Automatic update downloaded SP3 before other updates. Had to uninstall SP3, and download all other updates first. Also had to disable antivirus and firewall to get some updates to install.

Then downloaded and installed SP3.

by older mycroft

That you then installed BEFORE re-installing SP3.

By uninstalling Service Pack 3, you uninstalled all the post-SP2 updates that you then went off and laboriously installed. That's why it's called SP3.

By the time you 'installed' SP3 it probably only installed a fraction of what it actually contains, because you had installed them all before you let it run.

In your specific case, all you actually needed was SP3. ;)

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