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Help with windows update
Name: Mary Date: June 22, 2008 at 20:14:10 Pacific OS: vista home premium CPU/Ram: 2046 Product: HP dv9500 notebook
Comment:
We got this laptop for my 17yr. old last summer but I do the maintenance on it and updates. Yesterday he got a notice about a windows update and said yes to the download and install thinking it was OK to do it on his own since I wasn't here and it did part 1 and 2 I think he said and then re-booted and took like 1hr. for part 3 then when it got to the desktop it said service pack failed to install but I am using it now to post and it's working fine.
I went to windows update and for yesterday in the history it says vista service pack 1 failed to install (KB936330) so what should I do about this?
Name: kx5m2g Date: June 22, 2008 at 20:57:43 Pacific
Reply:
This might not help, but you could try a manual download of SP1 here.
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Response Number 2
Name: frankhelp Date: June 23, 2008 at 10:26:48 Pacific
Reply:
look, when i tried to instal sp1 i got tons of issues. in the end the best solution which worked for me was: download sp1 as a standalone make a fresh install of vista and right after that install sp1
sometimes sp1 doesnt like other softwares
when i installed sp1 it took around 20 minutes to install all updates.
Name: Mary Date: June 23, 2008 at 11:04:38 Pacific
Reply:
I don't think I can make a fresh install of vista, don't have a vista disk only the recovery disks we made and the E drive with the recovery on it. I have no clue how to install and OS or anything so will try the manual downlaod and if that doesn't work then will leave it for now. Mary
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