Update Q817287 defective?

[Mark]

Has anyone had a problem installing any updates? I have
clicked the install button on update Q817287 many times
on several different days. Yet when I turn my computer on
I get that old message "windows is ready to install the
recommended updates" I click "details" to find out what
I'm installing and then I click "install". Why wont this
update install like the many others I have had? System
Information Manufacturer = Sony Corporation Microsoft
explorer ver7.0.0021.1900Model Name = PCV-RX572(UC)
Product Version = 28403030 Date ofManufacture=10/18/2001
System BIOS Version = ACPI BIOS Revision 1004
Operating System
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version: 5.1.2600
Service Pack: 0.0
Memory (RAM)
Capacity: 256 MB

[Unknown]

The most popular cause of this failure is a corrupt 'catroot2' file.
Ironically 817287 is the update to prevent the corruption of 'catroot2'. To
fix: In C:/windows/system32 find the file 'catroot2' and rename it to
anything else such as catold2. Reboot, download and install. A new catroot2
file will be generated.
"Mark" > wrote in message
...
> Has anyone had a problem installing any updates? I have
> clicked the install button on update Q817287 many times
> on several different days. Yet when I turn my computer on
> I get that old message "windows is ready to install the
> recommended updates" I click "details" to find out what
> I'm installing and then I click "install". Why wont this
> update install like the many others I have had? System
> Information Manufacturer = Sony Corporation Microsoft
> explorer ver7.0.0021.1900Model Name = PCV-RX572(UC)
> Product Version = 28403030 Date ofManufacture=10/18/2001
> System BIOS Version = ACPI BIOS Revision 1004
> Operating System
> Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
> Version: 5.1.2600
> Service Pack: 0.0
> Memory (RAM)
> Capacity: 256 MB

[Gary Tsang]

See this page for a fix

Errors Occur When You Try to Install Updates from the Windows Update Web
Site
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;817753

Afterwards, installing the Q817287: Critical Update (Catalog Database
Corruption in Microsoft Windows XP) fix will stop this above issue from
happening again



--
Gary Tsang


"Mark" > wrote in message
...
> Has anyone had a problem installing any updates? I have
> clicked the install button on update Q817287 many times
> on several different days. Yet when I turn my computer on
> I get that old message "windows is ready to install the
> recommended updates" I click "details" to find out what
> I'm installing and then I click "install". Why wont this
> update install like the many others I have had? System
> Information Manufacturer = Sony Corporation Microsoft
> explorer ver7.0.0021.1900Model Name = PCV-RX572(UC)
> Product Version = 28403030 Date ofManufacture=10/18/2001
> System BIOS Version = ACPI BIOS Revision 1004
> Operating System
> Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
> Version: 5.1.2600
> Service Pack: 0.0
> Memory (RAM)
> Capacity: 256 MB

[Alex Nichol]

Mark wrote:

>Has anyone had a problem installing any updates? I have
>clicked the install button on update Q817287 many times
>on several different days.

Rename the folder windows\system32\catroot2 and reboot. Then get -
only - Q817287 and install it; you should then be able to carry on
with other updates, and the problem will not recur

--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows - File Systems)
Bournemouth, U.K.