geordie_john Posted February 14, 2007 Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 Hello i am trying to run the windows update for Febuary but it keeps failing to install,any ideas please?I am using windows xp prof.Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thos Posted February 14, 2007 Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 Hello i am trying to run the windows update for Febuary but it keeps failing to install,any ideas please?I am using windows xp prof.Thank you.I have been doing the same and also kept failing. But I closed all other programs down (except security) and tried again, this time successfully.Good luck with yours.Thos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted February 15, 2007 Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 Can you give use the error code which is failing? You get it by clicking on the red 'x' icon near the failing message(s). Alternately you can look up the error code in C:\WINDOWS\WindowsUpdate.log - but that may be a lot to read through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coreper Posted February 15, 2007 Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 try doing it trough the Windows Update websitei had some problems with the automated update program > downloaded them , never said anything about installing [yes, i have checked the option that it asks everything] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted February 15, 2007 Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 Dial a fix can help with Windows update problems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordie_john Posted February 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 i found out that i had to turn background intelligent transfer on to automatic and all my updates worked fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMG Posted February 28, 2007 Report Share Posted February 28, 2007 i found out that i had to turn background intelligent transfer on to automatic and all my updates worked fine.How did you do this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted February 28, 2007 Report Share Posted February 28, 2007 It's a service. In XP go to start > run and type services.msc then click ok. The services window will pop up. Find the service you want and right click on it and choose properties. Then you can change the startup type. Mine is set to manual, but I'm not having any problems with it so I'll leave it as it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted February 28, 2007 Report Share Posted February 28, 2007 By default: SP1 is automatic, SP2 is manual.Try restarting the service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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