i remember having the same problem with sp2 at home also. i don't remember what the fix was though. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 9:38 AM Subject: Re: XP SP3installation failure
Dennis, thanks. If I ever get any help with this, I'll check in and tell about it.This morning I got a dialogue saying new updates were ready and inviting meto download and install them. I figured maybe it's something else besides the service pack. After all, people have been saying that SP3 won't be offered as an automatic download until June. But when I clicked on the button to accept the download in Express mode, Igot the same screen with terms and conditions I had to agree to a I rememberfrom yesterday, and then a screen comes up letting me know it's SP3 I'm about to start downloading. Oh, no! I didn't want to go through all that again, an hour or more ofdownloading and installing only to be confronted with this dramatic, bongingerror message again. So I canceled out. Ack. I need someone to explain what the failure message I got yesterday meant by Access Denied and whether this is something I can remedy myself.----- Original Message ----- From: "dennis" <dennis.cornelison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 5:41 AM Subject: Re: XP SP3installation failure i have had the same issues. on my work machine there was no roblem at all. on my home machine the same thing happen that you describe. i don't know what to do about it either, but just so you know your not alone.----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:03 AM Subject: XP SP3installation failureI went to the Microsoft Updates page by clicking on the link under Tools inmy IE 7. I was asked to install an update to my Windows Update manager before proceeding, which I did. So far, so good. Then I initiated the download and installation of the service pack, as directed, including something on a second screen that I found only by accident Alt tabbing around to see if I'd left any applications running. I hadn't, it turned out, and this other page was waiting for me to say yes to some other, related procedure that had to happen after SP3 was downloaded but before it could be installed. Okay, still everything's going ahead fine, and I heard a progress bar reporting the progress of the installation. But then I got this big boom error sound, and the only message in the dialogue was Access Denied, and a button to click for OK. No alternative, so I clicked it.Now a dialogue came up asking me to start an uninstall Wizard or somethingof the sort. Again, I had no alternative, so I clicked OK and eventually it uninstalled everything it had been installing and reconfigured the registry, and everything. Looked very responsible. Then I got a dialogue saying all this was finished, and that SP3 had failed to be installed, and asking me to allow it to restart my computer. Which worked fine, though Jaws took a year and a half to say it was ready. Well, nowhere in these dialogues, which I inspected with the Jaws cursor to see if I could find text that I hadn't heard, there was no indication of what the problem was that caused this all to happen.Has anyone else experienced this? Any idea how I might diagnose it and setthings straight? thanks. the Virutal recongifired recongifured clciked someting anoher Deinied efverything's proceudre pprocedure procdure hes toidd. _______________________________________________ gui-talk mailing list gui-talk@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/gui-talk To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for gui-talk: http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/gui-talk/jdeutsch%40dslextreme.com -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. 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