can't open Windows XP downloads updates

[Will Smith]

After I download Critical Windows Updates, I try to open
XP downloads but then it just reopens the same dialog
box, showing all the categories (with "18" by XP so I
know there are downloads I could get, with a dialog
asking if I want to scan for updates - just like it does
when I first go to Windows Update page!

[Len]

why do you want to "Open" them...they are an integral part of XP....


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[Maurice N]

Will Smith wrote:
> After I download Critical Windows Updates, I try to open
> XP downloads but then it just reopens the same dialog
> box, showing all the categories (with "18" by XP so I
> know there are downloads I could get, with a dialog
> asking if I want to scan for updates - just like it does
> when I first go to Windows Update page!

Hi Will,
First, are the downloads successfully installed? (after an item has =
succeeded, there is on-screen verbiage "....update successful...".
Please re-explain (clarify) what you mean by "try to open XP download".

Either you have a repeating dialog, or you are pressing a selection on =
the left-hand frame....when you should not, OR....
you are having this problem where you keep seeing "update now":
For Windows XP, its is "mandatory" that Cryptographic Service, plus RPC =
Remote Procedure Call,=20
plus System Restore be *enabled* & workable-- before going to Windows =
Update site.
Be sure you have not disabled those.

--=20
Maurice N
MVP Windows - Shell / User
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