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Windows updates failed to install, then disappeared!!!
I am setting up a PC by wiping out Win2K and installing WinXP Pro. It
installed fine then I went to do Windows updates. I selected 18 or 20 of them and told it to go ahead and install. I came back a while later and there was a message listing all of the updates in red, saying none of them installed properly. So I rebooted. Now Windows update only shows updates I have installed since then, only 4 or 5. The others don't show up as failed installed, missing installs or anything - they just don't appear anyhere! Are they installed or not? How can I check? Thanks, Mich |
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Windows updates failed to install, then disappeared!!!
Are you sure ALL of them had the red X? You can check your add/remove
programs list many of the installs show up there. -- "I don't cheat to survive. I cheat to LIVE!!" - Alceryes "M Skabialka" wrote in message ... I am setting up a PC by wiping out Win2K and installing WinXP Pro. It installed fine then I went to do Windows updates. I selected 18 or 20 of them and told it to go ahead and install. I came back a while later and there was a message listing all of the updates in red, saying none of them installed properly. So I rebooted. Now Windows update only shows updates I have installed since then, only 4 or 5. The others don't show up as failed installed, missing installs or anything - they just don't appear anyhere! Are they installed or not? How can I check? Thanks, Mich |
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Windows updates failed to install, then disappeared!!!
Yes they do show up there. Why don't they show up when I am on the Updates
site and ask to see updates I have installed? "Alceryes" wrote in message ... Are you sure ALL of them had the red X? You can check your add/remove programs list many of the installs show up there. -- "I don't cheat to survive. I cheat to LIVE!!" - Alceryes "M Skabialka" wrote in message ... I am setting up a PC by wiping out Win2K and installing WinXP Pro. It installed fine then I went to do Windows updates. I selected 18 or 20 of them and told it to go ahead and install. I came back a while later and there was a message listing all of the updates in red, saying none of them installed properly. So I rebooted. Now Windows update only shows updates I have installed since then, only 4 or 5. The others don't show up as failed installed, missing installs or anything - they just don't appear anyhere! Are they installed or not? How can I check? Thanks, Mich |
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Windows updates failed to install, then disappeared!!!
Was one of the updates new drivers for your network card or modem (whatever
you use to connect to the internet)? I've had it happen before where I downloaded Microsoft's update for a NIC and before it was finished installing it tried to go to the 'finished installing updates' page in IE. Of course I got a 'page cannot be displayed' but everything worked on reboot. If it doesn't get to the finished page MS might not log that you installed the updates properly. In any case I wouldn't worry about it. As long as the updates got installed your OK. -- "I don't cheat to survive. I cheat to LIVE!!" - Alceryes "M Skabialka" wrote in message ... Yes they do show up there. Why don't they show up when I am on the Updates site and ask to see updates I have installed? "Alceryes" wrote in message ... Are you sure ALL of them had the red X? You can check your add/remove programs list many of the installs show up there. -- "I don't cheat to survive. I cheat to LIVE!!" - Alceryes "M Skabialka" wrote in message ... I am setting up a PC by wiping out Win2K and installing WinXP Pro. It installed fine then I went to do Windows updates. I selected 18 or 20 of them and told it to go ahead and install. I came back a while later and there was a message listing all of the updates in red, saying none of them installed properly. So I rebooted. Now Windows update only shows updates I have installed since then, only 4 or 5. The others don't show up as failed installed, missing installs or anything - they just don't appear anyhere! Are they installed or not? How can I check? Thanks, Mich |
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