How do u force a reinstall of XP Updates?

[markey164]

Hi all,

Ok here's the problem,

I was halfway through downloading XP's critical updates from the windowsupdate website, when for some reason my pc rebooted. (a delayed action from something i had installed just before i think).

Anyway, on returning to windowsupdate, my pc seemed to think that half these updates had now installed as it only saw 7 critical updates instead of the previous 18 or so. This is odd because at the point it rebooted, it was only at the downloading stage not the installation stage.

I found an MS KB article that explained where to delete a registry key relating to a Windows update to allow redection/reinstallation (see below) so deleted the SP2 key and restarted but it had no effect. (Also deleted the SP1 key as well but no effect either) ie still only 7 critical updates listed.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;Q319109

I do not want to reinstall the whole system, i simply want windows update to redetect the original 18 or so critical updates so i can reinstall them. I've searched google, but can't find an answer to this one. Can anyone help???

cheers

Mark

[jmatt]

Troubleshooting Windows Update Issues:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_u.htm#update

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Daisy
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http://vtntug.w2k.vt.edu/daisy.html
An intelligent auto-hotfix utility for Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP

What is Daisy?
Daisy is a program that reviews your system for service pack and OS levels, determining what hotfixes the OS and applications need, and downloading and installing them in a correct and consistent manner. It checks that the hotfixes installed on the system are installed correctly.

[markey164]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

I tried Daisy, which looks like a useful piece of software, except it told me there was only 1 MS update available, and this wasn't even listed in the 7 updates that windowsupdate itself told me was available.

Also looked at your link to kelly's corner, again very useful, except nearly all the issues here are relating to people who cannot download updates due to browser settings or permission settings and similar. (I am not having this problem)

None of the links including the one to the windowsupdates problem page, addresses the specific problem i have.

Ie how to make my machine think it has no updates installed, so windows updates prompts me to reinstall them all again from scratch!!

I guess it would be a registry edit of some sort. Similar to the one i tried in my first post.

I have also reinstalled Service Pack 1 since, which i seem to remember reading somewhere is supposed to wipe all previous hotfixes. However in my case it didn't.

So currently am still stuck on this one, grrr!!

Cheers

Mark

[jmatt]

Have a look here markey164 .

Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs .

Hotfixes should be there .

Or , Windows Explorer > in your Windows folder .

Here is a better way of searching in XP .

XP Search replacement > Find.zip
http://www.shellfront.org/utils/

[markey164]

Hi,

Unfortunately if you try to remove updates from Control Panel -> add/remove, you will find that most of them are not available for removal in this way! Try it yourself, you will see the remove option on some of them does not appear.

Already tried that route

Mark