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techsupport · 01-03-2005, 05:29 PM

I've had this happen on the windows update site, what I usually do is keep hitting refresh and or I completely close IE and just try the windowsupdate from the tools menu and it usually will update, but I have also seen where it doesn't and what I've done is completely power off the pc, turn back on and connect to the internet and then run the windowsupdate from the tools menu again. I know this isn't very techical but thats what worked for me... you may also want to delete everything from the windows/temp directory (I think this is where the windows updates are temporarily downloaded to until the updates are actually installed) and try to update again. Some of the updates probably got corrupted during the download (especially if you are on a dial-up connection). Hope this helps.

01-03-2005, 05:29 PM	#8 (permalink)
techsupport Newb Techie Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 19	I've had this happen on the windows update site, what I usually do is keep hitting refresh and or I completely close IE and just try the windowsupdate from the tools menu and it usually will update, but I have also seen where it doesn't and what I've done is completely power off the pc, turn back on and connect to the internet and then run the windowsupdate from the tools menu again. I know this isn't very techical but thats what worked for me... you may also want to delete everything from the windows/temp directory (I think this is where the windows updates are temporarily downloaded to until the updates are actually installed) and try to update again. Some of the updates probably got corrupted during the download (especially if you are on a dial-up connection). Hope this helps.