[Ham-Computers] W2K Microsoft Update Problem

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

When I got up this morning and came into the office and lit up my machine, 
the little icon that looks like a late 19th century bomb but blue-green color 
was showing in the system tray.  Nothing unusual about that.  When I looked at 
our other two machines, they had it as well.  But the unusual thing was that 
one machine showed the update to be a cumulative security update for IE6 plus 
the worthless but innocuous Microsoft Malicious Software removal tool.  The 
other two machines showed two IE-6 cumulative updates, with different KB numbers, 
plus the removal tool.  

So I ran them, as I have been doing for years.  Shortly, the bomb icon shows 
up again saying updates were ready to install, and I installed them on all 
three machines.  A little while later, the text in the gray windows announce that 
the machines need to be rebooted in order to complete the updates.  So I do 
that.  The machine that originally only had one IE6 update showing came back up 
and is happy.  The other two immediatedly showed the bomb icon again and 
wanted to download IE6 KB867801 again (the one that never showed up on one 
machine).  So I ran it again on one machine, supposedly installed it, and repeat.  
Didn't ask to reboot.  But everytime I go through the two steps on that machine 
(download and supposedly install) the sequence starts over.

Anyone know what's going on?  Right now on those two machines the bomb icon 
is still showing in the system tray wanting to download and install KB867801.



Robert Downs - Houston
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