microsoft.public.windowsupdate

You're all wonderful. My system got a clean bill of health on the Diagnostic
Site and the validation tool installed this time. Don't know why it didn't
previously though. I was then faced again with the 50+ updates but this time
with the option to download and install. I'll have to leave trying that
until tomorrow when I get more data allowance from my server.

In the meantime I get the feeling that the consensus is that I should
download SP2 first. I'm a little hesitant as am concerned that this might
create more or different problems as my computer is 5 years old now and very
used to SP1. I feel sure it is probably not as clean as it could be and if
there are any little corrupt bits I could be in for a long time on this
newsgroup! As you can see I'm not particularly techo and a little bit scared
as I am doing a lot of work on my computer and wouldn't like troubleshooting
SP2 to take up more time . Any further thoughts/ opinions on this would be
appreciated. I regularly do a chkdsk and defrag - no problems there.


"MowGreen [MVP]" wrote:

> Go here first:
>
> Microsoft Genuine Advantage – Diagnostic Site
> http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/diag/default.aspx?displaylang=en
>
> Did the system get WGA'ed ?
>
> MowGreen [MVP 2003-2008]
> ===============
> *-343-* FDNY
> Never Forgotten
> ===============
>
>
> Samfrea wrote:
>
> > I've been a bit slack and haven't installed any updates since October 2006.
> > My OS is WindowsXP SP1.
> >
> > Just tried to get up-to-date and all updates (some 50+ for XP and Office)
> > have all indicated a failed installation.
> >
> > The initial "checking for updates" came up with only the Windows Genuine
> > Advantage Validation tool which I tried to install. This failed and the
> > window then led me to my update history which showed the 50+ failed
> > installations. I cannot find any way to retry them.
> >
> > Seems weird as I've never had a problem in the past.
> >
> > Can anyone throw some light on this problem for me? Please... thanks
>