Windows Updates

[AsterixSmeagol]

My computer has for some reason stopped allowing me to install Windows updates. I can download them automatically like normal, but they all fail to install. For a while I was just downloading them each from Microsoft's website and installing them manually, but that was getting tedious. Any ideas on how to make Windows Update able to install them again?

[jholland1964]

Give us more information....Operating System, Anti-virus, Firewall, Hard drive size, how much RAM...etc.?

[AsterixSmeagol]

Widows XP Media Center 2005
150 GB Hard Drive (108 GB free)
1 GB RAM
3.4 GHz Processor
No anti-virus yet
Windows Firewall

The anti-virus is missing and I'm just using Windows firewall because I just did a system recovery last week. I had Norton before, but I really didn't like it so I'm probably getting something else sometime this week.

[S Templar]

Hi what you should do ASAP is install an Anti-virus program.
If not you will have far more problems than not being able to update Widows.
Check.
http://forum.networktechs.com/showthread.php?t=50
There are Free ones available.

[jholland1964]

Go HERE
download, install and update one of the free anti-virus programs PP notes here. All are good. Have used AVG and am now using Antivir. Like it really well.
Does the XP have SP1 or SP2 on it?

[AsterixSmeagol]

It has SP3.

[jholland1964]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144