Guest LilBambi Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 (edited) Fix when XP refuses to update - Freedomlist - plodr aka our own zlim/Liz Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 12:56 pm Post subject: Fix when XP refuses to update I read posts where people complained about XP refusing to update. This month, two of the three XP computers would not update. I could hang on the update site for an hour and all that happened was the green bar went back and forth. I googled until I found a solution. I opened IE 8, went here http://www.microsoft...s.aspx?id=41404 downloaded then installed the update. (I put it on a USB stick to install on the second "broken" computer). Rebooted then went to MS Update again and in less than 5 minutes, the remaining updates appeared. Note: this worked on two different XP computers (one runs Pro and the other Home). The third computer (XP Home) had no problem with this months updates. Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 8 for Windows XP (KB2898785) I searched for this on our forums, I was pretty sure that Liz posted this here as well as FreedomList, but maybe I just saw it over there. I just used this on my Windows XP Pro VirtualBox. Windows Updates had successfully installed 5 updates but was stuck at 15% and wouldn't go forward. I went looking for this posting by Liz to get that link. I installed it and after rebooting, within just about 10 min or so, I had a bunch of updates (16 to be exact) ready to be installed. It is now installing them. BTW: The install was also VERY slow since I was in it last time a couple or three months ago, so since I hadn't needed to be in this VirtualBox WinXP Pro, I just didn't go in to do anything. Was painful. I am hoping based on a neowin articles (1,2) that this and the new updates will might also take care of that. Thanks to our own Liz/zlim who is also known as plodr, an Administrator on FreedomList! Thanks again! Will report back the results but wanted to get this out there. Edited December 14, 2013 by LilBambi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Yuppers! Corrine posted about this also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 That slowness and high CPU usage that I noted above from the neowin articles, Corrine has also posted about that not long after I posted this topic too! Cool! It was happening to me on IE8. Windows XP: SVCHOST and Windows Update Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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