Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: charles Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.advocacy Subject: Re: Windows update being silly. Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 16:02:10 +0100 Organization: None Lines: 35 Message-ID: <5293e7febfcharles@charleshope.demon.co.uk> References: <3727e29352.pnyoung@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: E61sRfClmXOqv1geYFDo8g.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Pluto/3.04c (RISC-OS/5.18) NewsHound/1.43-32-pre2 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.advocacy:6 In article <3727e29352.pnyoung@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>, Peter Young 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. -- From KT24 Using a RISC OS computer running v5.18