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James Feger
December 5th 03, 07:34 PM
Funny...I get the same thing with XP Pro. I also am
having problems with Windowsupdate failing (see my post
on the same newsgroup).


>-----Original Message-----
>Here's an excerpt from the MS's Windows Update
>installation history:
>
>-------------
>Failed Tuesday, April 22, 2003 811630: Critical Update
>(Windows XP)
>Read more... Web site
>Failed Tuesday, April 22, 2003 810577: Security Update
>Web site
>-------------
>
>For some reason, those two packates just won't install
on
>my XP machine. I've tried to download them manually,
and
>then execute them locally, but it still won't install.
>It says something like a service is not started, but I
>checked that service and it was already started.
>
>Has anyone else run into this problem? It's bugging me
>because it's considered a critical update, and I don't
>have it installed.
>
>Any help/info is much appreciated! Thanks in advance.
>
>Naugh Smith
>.
>

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