Re: XP SP3installation failure
- From: "Teddy Bear" <toyol_cyber007@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 13:31:17 +0800
Why not download a hold set file 316 MB and install it?
From: Yardbird
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 01:03 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: XP SP3installation failure
I went to the Microsoft Updates page by clicking on the link under Tools in
my 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 something
of 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 set
things straight?
thanks.
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