WinXp won't finish instaling windows updates

[orangeman]

I updated windows xp via windows update recently. Now when I go to the windows update website, it says there are 11 critical updates, however, each one of them says zero bytes for the size of the file. If I try to do those 11 updates, it fails. If I go to shutdown the computer, the "power-off" icon has a message by it that basically says I have to shutdown the computer to finish installing the updates so I click on the icon and it begins to shutdown and update.

I get a message that says installing update 1 of 10 and then it powers off before all 10 updates are done. The next time I power on and do to the windows update site, the same 11 updates are still there and I cannot complete the update.

I think I have already downloaded the updates and a proper power down needs to be done where it does all updates before powering off but how do I do that?

How do I get this computer to complete the install of these updates?

[Mak213]

Hello,

Are you running XP SP3?

Cheers,
Mak

[orangeman]

yes I am

[Mak213]

Hello,

Please read thru this article:

Automatic updates fail after installation of Windows XP SP3 | ITExperience.NET

It gives information on how to fix Windows Update after the install of XP SP3.

Cheers,
Mak

[orangeman]

Thanks, that fixed it

[veedubfreak]

Ya i ran into this doing clean installs on a few machines at work. I had to download an older version of the updater to fix the problem. It only seems to happen with a fresh install and sp3 install.