How to remove a failed update

[Kentype]

A strange problem here. I downloaded W7 SP1 and installed it but in
Control Panel/Windows Updates it's listed as failed. I think I turned
off the CP at a bad time. A few days later I received in the mail, the
SP1 update CD (which I had ordered much earlier) so I installed it. Now
I have 2 SP1's installed, one of which is listed as a failed
installation. The other shows up in My Computer on a rt click so it
must be OK. So how do I remove the failed installation? TIA for any
help on this one.

[Alias[_52_]]

On 03/08/2011 07:57 PM, Kentype wrote:
> A strange problem here. I downloaded W7 SP1 and installed it but in
> Control Panel/Windows Updates it's listed as failed. I think I turned
> off the CP at a bad time. A few days later I received in the mail, the
> SP1 update CD (which I had ordered much earlier) so I installed it. Now
> I have 2 SP1's installed, one of which is listed as a failed
> installation. The other shows up in My Computer on a rt click so it must
> be OK. So how do I remove the failed installation? TIA for any help on
> this one.

Don't worry about it. This is normal MS behavior. The failed SP1 has
been replaced by a good one. The same thing happened to me with .NET.

--
Alias

[Gene E. Bloch[_2_]]

On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:57:55 -0800, Kentype wrote:

> A strange problem here. I downloaded W7 SP1 and installed it but in
> Control Panel/Windows Updates it's listed as failed. I think I turned
> off the CP at a bad time. A few days later I received in the mail, the
> SP1 update CD (which I had ordered much earlier) so I installed it. Now
> I have 2 SP1's installed, one of which is listed as a failed
> installation. The other shows up in My Computer on a rt click so it
> must be OK. So how do I remove the failed installation? TIA for any
> help on this one.

It's just a log entry, and AFAICT, there's no way to remove it. No real
need either - as a log entry, it's harmless, even if ugly :-)

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

[Paul]

Kentype wrote:
> A strange problem here. I downloaded W7 SP1 and installed it but in
> Control Panel/Windows Updates it's listed as failed. I think I turned
> off the CP at a bad time. A few days later I received in the mail, the
> SP1 update CD (which I had ordered much earlier) so I installed it. Now
> I have 2 SP1's installed, one of which is listed as a failed
> installation. The other shows up in My Computer on a rt click so it
> must be OK. So how do I remove the failed installation? TIA for any
> help on this one.

A failed install, should back itself out.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/should-you-install-windows-7-service-pack-1/3051

"The more common (and still rare) outcome is an SP1 installation that fails
to complete, leaving the system unchanged and still usable."

Paul