sp3 and updates

Duzmor · Post by **Duzmor** » Mon May 12, 2008 7:30 pm

I get the Yellow thing in my task bar for a up-date but it will not install

I get the same thing when trying to add Media 11

This is after I installed sp3 on a clean install

anyone Know why ?

Duz

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Mon May 12, 2008 8:07 pm

its picking up critical updates after the sp3 install and the wmp 11 install.. click it and see what its wanting to install..sometimes it just sees that its there but doesn't do anything after you start it and it just disappears.

Duzmor · Post by **Duzmor** » Mon May 12, 2008 8:30 pm

The Up date is for net framework

and if I go to Windows up-date for media 11 it say's the same thing

Duz

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Mon May 12, 2008 8:39 pm

It's just showing other updates besides XP3....
.NET Framework is not needed unless you install some software which requires a minimum version of it. Most software out there, if they require .NET Framework, only need 2.0....not many which require 3.0..and I haven't seen any at all which require 3.5.

Duzmor · Post by **Duzmor** » Mon May 12, 2008 8:52 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:It's just showing other updates besides XP3....
.NET Framework is not needed unless you install some software which requires a minimum version of it. Most software out there, if they require .NET Framework, only need 2.0....not many which require 3.0..and I haven't seen any at all which require 3.5.

Why won't it install - It was fine with sp2

Duz

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue May 13, 2008 6:09 am

Reasons of failed update installations can sometimes be found in the windowsupdate.log file in your C:\Windows directory.
Also often an error code on the Microsoft update page at the end of an attempted install.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue May 13, 2008 7:12 am

Microsoft Corp. blames computer makers for some of the problems users have encountered after updating to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), according to a company support document.

The document also showed that the "endless reboot" problem some users have reported after installing XP SP3 was neither unanticipated or new; Microsoft updated the document the same day it released the service pack, and indicated that the same thing happened nearly four years ago when it rolled out Windows XP SP2.

Knowledge Base document 888372, last updated May 6, spelled out an error message that stops a PC's boot process -- and, depending on the machine's settings, may make it repeatedly reboot -- after installing SP3. The fault, said the Microsoft document, is in the Windows XP image originally installed on the PC by the computer manufacturer, or OEM.

http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=DDB415 ... E5E90D0CBE

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue May 13, 2008 7:14 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=DDB415 ... E5E90D0CBE

Yeah there's a doozy with some OEM AMD based systems.

whittier · Post by **whittier** » Sun May 18, 2008 2:47 am

If you are still having problems, Microsoft is providing free technical support for SP3 installation and compatibility issues. The details and further discussion of SP3 can be found here:

http://www.iaps.com/blog/2008/05/free-w ... ation.html

ghettoside · Post by **ghettoside** » Sun May 18, 2008 7:35 am

I did sp3 for the first time last night. Usually I run autopatcher, but I only had the core to aug 07, so I dwnld'd sp3 to disc.

Anyway, I install net framework. After I did sp3 I went to install office 2k7, but found I couldn't install any net programmability support. Threw on 2.0, updated that to 3.0. Everything fine now, no other issues w/ sp3.

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