re: windows update not working Saturday, August 29, 2009 at 11:37 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by max (1 messages posted) I tried all the suggestions in here. Reregistering the DLLS at least let me reboot the machine in Safe mode without it immediately crashing and rebooting during the boot-up, which it was doing. But I cannot delete the catroot2 folder. Windows insists some of the files in it are corrupted and it won't let me delete them. I tried running chkdsk, but it says the volume can't be mounted in exclusive mode, even though I am the Administrator and even in Safe mode, it says this. I have run tools from malwarebytes.org, and spybot search and destroy, and did an ipconfig /flushdns That got rid of the spyware/malware thing that got in here that started all this, so at least the barrage of popup boxes has stopped and Yahoo searches aren't redirected anymore. I just wanted to rerun the Win XP SP2 installer and then let Windows to all its auto updates, but I can't run the SP2 installed becuase of this stupid .inf thing. On Saturday, September 21, 2002 at 1:58 am, mahman wrote: > >hello, i don't know if this is the right place to post but if anyone could help, >thanks > >when i try to do windows update.. i'll click "install now" and it'll go through the >process of updating.. two things happen >1) some of the updates a box will pop up and says something to the effect of "this >software will not be installed" >2) after it's all said and done... NONE of the files have been installed.. they are >all in red on the windows update page... > >also, when i try to install service pack 1, it says something is wrong with the update.inf >file and to turn on cryptographic service.. so i do... but it still doesn't work.. >can anyone help pls? thanks! 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