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Re: Windows update being silly.

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In article <3727e29352.pnyoung@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>,
   Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> wrote:
> This is with Windows XP Home SP3. I am at present installing these 
> Windows updates:
> KB2572073
> KB2633800
> KB2518864
> for the third time! Each time I try to install them, I get the 
> "Installation complete" window, click on "Close", and within a minute 
> or so I get another invitation to install them.

I got this, but when I click on "insatll" I get a message saying that all 3
have been successfully installed.



> It doesn't seem, this time, to want me top restart the computer, but 
> as soon as this install attempt is over, I will try restarting to see 
> if that makes any difference.

I have not been asked to restart either.

> Any idea what is going wring here? It took a very long time this 
> morning for the updates to download (my broadband speed is slow anyway 
> but it was like swimming though treacle this morning). Could the 
> updates have been corrupted?

you can get this effect when lots of others are trying to install at the
same time.   Hint - do it when the USA is generally asleep.

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From KT24 

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.18 

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