Click the icon to bring up the Updates box.
Instead of Express Install, click the button for Custom Install, and
click Next.
In the list of updates to install, uncheck the box for any updates you
do not need, such as for Office components that are not installed.
Click Next, and a dialog will appear where you can add a check to a box
for "Don't show these updates again"
Continue and close when done.

Those updates should not be offered again.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
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"Bill R" wrote in message
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I have an icon in the ?tray (bottom right of screen) showing me
"updates are ready for your computer". They are "Security update for
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 KB976881" and "Update for Microsoft
Office Outlook Junk Email Filter KB977713". Neither Microsoft
PowerPoint nor Microsoft Outlook are installed on the computer. When I
go to download and install the updates it goes through the motions of
downloading the two updates but the install fails. However, the icon
remains stubbornly in the tray. Why does Microsoft update identify the
need for an update to non-existent software and how can I remove the
icon please.

Thanks..

Bill R