The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Trouble with windows updates

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by bignelly, Aug 8, 2007.

  1. bignelly

    bignelly Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    35
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    I am having a problem with my updates, if i switch them on. The amber shield appears in the task bar and a pop up informs me that i have new updates, so i click on it and agree to download them. it downloads ok, asks for "express install" or "custom install" i choose custom and there is only one update, it's called "Microsoft Windows Installer 3.1" i tick the box But then it all goes pear shaped.:mad: i click the appropriate button and it sits there not doing anything before telling me "Microsoft Windows Installer 3.1" was not installed...... any body have any suggestions..??....
    i have looked at the trouble shooting stuff from their link and i googled it too, but didn't get very far
     
    Last edited by a moderator: May 8, 2015
    bignelly, Aug 8, 2007
    #1
  2. Macke

    Macke Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    9
    Messages:
    30
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Macke, Aug 9, 2007
    #2
  3. bignelly

    bignelly Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    35
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Thankyou for your help, i will go and try it out:) .
    i have another slightly random question, i have two laptop computers both are running windows XP and using the same secuity tools and web browser, and yet,the one that has the slower processor and less RAM loads web pages faster and doesen't stick like the other one. i have tried unplugging them and swapping the cables over, and niether of them seems overloaded when i look at the task manager, any ideas ???
    thanks again
     
    Last edited by a moderator: May 8, 2015
    bignelly, Aug 9, 2007
    #3
  4. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

    Reputations:
    1,654
    Messages:
    5,955
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    205
    have u verified both startup process/services and compare them? av software can sometimes influence the surfing. are both systems have the same configuration (registry, indexing ...)

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Aug 9, 2007
    #4
  5. bignelly

    bignelly Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    35
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    thanks for your help, i will look into it :)
     
    bignelly, Aug 10, 2007
    #5