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re: Question about 'Downloading Windows Updates'
Tuesday, December 5, 2006 at 4:20 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by MaddMaxx
(1988 messages posted)
You answered your own question. Without auto updates your machine runs fine. With
auto updates it's a loser. Use Svc Packs only. No auto updates. By the by, can you
name the 64 updates and their purpose? Or let's put it this way, would you install
64 programs on your computer not knowing what they are or what they do.
On Monday, December 4, 2006 at 7:06 pm, im_not_tiger wrote:
>I have a question about Downloading
>Windows Updates:
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>After having just recently re-installed windows XP Home on my sons PC using the
recovery
>disks supplied with the PC (Acer Aspire G600P) I then had to install service pack
>2 again using the disk obtained from Microsoft. Everything seemed to be working
fine
>for a few days and he had reinstallled most of his games and using them OK. Then
>after a windows auto update which involved downloading around 64 updates, we can
>now no longer install any new software, as we get an error message stating that
the
>software exe file has encountered a problem and has to shut down. If we restore
back
>to the point before the windows update we can then install the game. Does this mean
>that one of the 64 updates is causing this problem? If anyone has any answers/ideas
>I would greatly appreciate the help. Thanks
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