I’m about to go insane.
The other day I installed the automatic update for Service Pack 3. It ended up screwing up my firewall and virus protection, wouldn’t let me turn it back on. I thought I fixed everything, but then this morning I went on my computer and it was all messed up, loaded with a ton of viruses. I had to install a clean installation of XP Service Pack 2. Now, I’m trying to get my notebook up to date with automatic updates, I have 81 I have to install. I don’t want to install Service Pack 3, but when I try to install the other updates manually, they don’t install, a message comes up saying the installation failed. Do I have install Service Pack 3 in order to download the previous updates I had prior to SP3?
Can someone please help me?
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3 responses so far ↓
1 durtyboy16 // Aug 28, 2008
u can simply go to the microsoft website in the update section and u can choose what u want to download and u can also but sp3 to never show up n ur download stuff
2 Michael // Aug 28, 2008
http://update.microsoft.com/ or you may have to wipe your computer and start over save your **** on disks and reinstall it if you don’t have a reinstall disk get one here: http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=368&name=Operating-Systems
also to prevent this from happening again get this http://free.avg.com both free and full are great or get a trial for the full version here: http://www.grisoft.com/ww.download-trial and download the one on the right when your done i would recommend buying it or if you have no money just get free version here http://free.avg.com
good luck!!!!
3 Nix // Aug 28, 2008
Service pack 3 is for security so i dont really think thats what messed up your machine…try installing flash player, that might be the case and make sure you pass microsoft genuine advantage check up….
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