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My XP Home machine was getting pretty slow, so last night I reformatted the hard disk and left Windows installing overnight. As of right now, I've got all my drivers loaded, with the exception of a Catalyst driver for my Radeon and the XP driver for my laser printer - will do those later.
My original Windows CD was SP1, but I have a Microsoft CD that installs the necessary updates for SP2, so I've run that and all seems fine.
When I connect to Windows Update, it shows 80-odd updates in the high-priority category. Basically, they download no problem but refuse to install - all I get in the way of an error message is a not-very-helpful 'A problem on your computer is preventing updates from being downloaded or installed' ...
Any ideas gents?
EDIT: Did a search on here and found this thread:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17821916&highlight=windows+update
Tried method 2 first as it appeared the most straightforward but no joy. Have tried method 1 (registering the .dll) and that seems to have sorted it - updates are installing as I'm typing ...
MODS: Apologies - feel free to delete thread ...
My original Windows CD was SP1, but I have a Microsoft CD that installs the necessary updates for SP2, so I've run that and all seems fine.
When I connect to Windows Update, it shows 80-odd updates in the high-priority category. Basically, they download no problem but refuse to install - all I get in the way of an error message is a not-very-helpful 'A problem on your computer is preventing updates from being downloaded or installed' ...
Any ideas gents?
EDIT: Did a search on here and found this thread:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17821916&highlight=windows+update
Tried method 2 first as it appeared the most straightforward but no joy. Have tried method 1 (registering the .dll) and that seems to have sorted it - updates are installing as I'm typing ...
MODS: Apologies - feel free to delete thread ...
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