[Ham-Computers] Problem with Windows Update

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

OS is Windows 2000 Pro.  I don't recall exactly when this problem first 
started but it was at least several weeks ago.  Sporadically the Update icon will 
appear in the System Tray to install Update Rollup 1 for W2K SP4.  When I try 
to run it, it fails immediately.  Last night I uninstalled all security fixes 
and hotfixes and tried to install everything back from scratch (since SP4).  
When it got to the rollup, it failed again.  Today, I tried again, uninstalling 
everything and then going to the Windows Update site and trying to download 
and install only the rollup on the theory that there have been so many hotfixes 
since the rollup, maybe it would no install over one of them.  That was only 
partly successful as after clicking the million or so security fixes to change 
the + to - (and I thought only download and install the rollup), the updater 
still downloaded and installed (or tried to install) the whole lot.  It moved 
the rollup to the #6 position from dead last but it still did not work.  The 
first thing the system did after the re-boot was to pop up and tell me I needed 
to install the rollup.  Which failed again.

I've tracked down (I think) all of the files on the machine that have the 
KB891861 number in them.  But I'm hesitant to do something like deleting all of 
them as I have no idea what I'm doing at this point.  I'll mention one 
suspicious thing I did find.  There are two files in the \Download\long alphanumeric 
string\ folder that I wonder about.  One is susdl.rq0, the other sus.rq1.  The 
first has 40+ lines.  The second has about 6, which are exactly the same as 
the first 6 in the first file.  So wondered whether possibly the second file is 
incomplete and causing the problem.  But that's just a straw I clutched at.

Robert Downs - Houston
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