Teddy, I don't know what you mean. Could you please explain? Thank you. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Teddy Bear" <toyol_cyber007@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:31 PM Subject: Re: XP SP3installation failure 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. -- 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. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx