re: windows update not working Thursday, August 14, 2003 at 2:10 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Francis (1 messages posted) Try going into CTRL-ALT-DELETE and then end all the processes under the user names account, except explorer.exe and other programs that will make MS crash, so you can delete the CATROOT2 Folder. Worked for me. :) On Wednesday, August 13, 2003 at 10:27 pm, SAZ wrote: >I am having the same problem on a client's machine. Both XP SP1a and the RPC DCOM >patch fail for due to the 'update.inf' problem. Removed Catroot2 dozens of times. > I am working this problem, please tell me if you have any similarities to the following: > >Compaq Presario 8000 desktop >OLD BIOS (never been updated) >Win XP Home (no SP) >Norton Anti-Virus (installed but not running when attempting update) >System Restore TURNED OFF > >I have seen posts about this same problem with Sony Vaio machines. > >I will post any useful results. TIA. > > Written in response to: re: windows update not working (SAZ: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 at 10:27 pm) Responses to this message: re: windows update not working (Erik Ostermueller: Thursday, August 14, 2003 at 7:26 am) All messages in this thread [show all] windows update not working (mahman: Sat, Sep 21, 2002, 1:58 am) re: windows update not working (gary: Wed, Sep 25, 2002, 4:04 pm) re: windows update not working (X.: Sun, Nov 17, 2002, 1:25 pm) re: windows update not working (Krs: Wed, May 28, 2003, 10:35 pm) re: windows update not working (brian: Fri, Jul 25, 2003, 1:18 pm) re: windows update not working (MacroHard: Wed, Aug 13, 2003, 6:43 am) re: windows update not working (MJ: Wed, Aug 13, 2003, 2:56 pm) re: windows update not working (mike: Wed, Aug 13, 2003, 6:52 pm) re: windows update not working (Ed: Wed, Aug 13, 2003, 7:42 pm) re: windows update not working (Victor: Wed, Aug 13, 2003, 9:51 pm) re: windows update not working (aeiron: Wed, Aug 13, 2003, 10:25 pm) re: windows update not working (tech497: Wed, Aug 13, 2003, 11:04 pm) re: windows update not working (Jon: Wed, Aug 13, 2003, 11:58 pm) re: windows update not working (SAZ: Thu, Aug 14, 2003, 12:17 am) re: windows update not working (Jon: Thu, Aug 14, 2003, 1:23 am) re: windows update not working (SAZ: Thu, Aug 14, 2003, 5:58 am) re: windows update not working (Cheryl: Thu, Aug 14, 2003, 6:17 am) re: windows update not working (SAZ: Thu, Aug 14, 2003, 6:50 am) re: windows update not working (Marc: Thu, Aug 14, 2003, 8:18 am) re: windows update not working (Joe Rosenberg: Thu, Aug 14, 2003, 8:53 am) re: windows update not working (nik: Wed, Aug 20, 2003, 12:58 pm) re: windows update not working (brand: Thu, Aug 14, 2003, 9:41 am) Bingo!!! (Rick: Thu, Aug 14, 2003, 10:05 am) re: Bingo!!! (aeiron: Fri, Aug 15, 2003, 12:59 am) re: Bingo!!! (aeiron: Fri, Aug 15, 2003, 1:03 am) re: windows update not working (tom: Thu, Aug 14, 2003, 12:52 pm) re: windows update not working (jennied: Thu, Aug 14, 2003, 7:33 pm) It really does work!! Yea! (MJ: Thu, Aug 14, 2003, 2:26 pm) re: windows update not working (Exempt: Thu, Aug 14, 2003, 3:13 pm) Worked! And worked for SP1a too! (SAZ: Thu, Aug 14, 2003, 3:19 pm) re: Worked! And worked for SP1a too! (Percy: Thu, Aug 14, 2003, 6:52 pm) re: Worked! And worked for SP1a too! 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