MS Update Loop

mr_fishbulb

damoandclaire wrote: »

never said that you should run your posts before anyone. i merely stated that your comments about whether you like someone taking their PC to someone at work were unwarranted and didn't help the OP original topic/question.

So you thought you would make a post equally unhelpful with respect to the original question? What has you commenting on my post got to do with the thread?

kwikbreaks

Oooooh handbags

mr_fishbulb

damoandclaire - sorry. I'm being a bit of a grump this morning :beer:

I remember reading something years ago about fighting on the internet being like the special Olympics. But I won't repeat it here

sco0ter

What version of Vista is it?????

BASIC service pack??? what

There are LOADS of articles about this on MS. I had this problem with my Home Premium but that was installing SP1

This is what I did


Use the System Recovery options to rename the Pending.xml file and edit the registry:

1. On the System Recovery Options page, click Command Prompt.
2. Type cd C:\windows\winsxs, and then press ENTER.
3. Type ren pending.xml pending.old, and then press ENTER.
4. Type regedit, and then press ENTER.
5. Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
6. On the File menu, click Load Hive.
7. Locate the following folder: C:\windows\system32\config\components
8. When you are prompted for a name, type Offline_Components.
9. In Registry Editor, locate and then delete the following registry subkey: HLKM\Offline Components\AdvancedInstallersNeedResolving
   HKLM\Offline Components\PendingXmlIdentifier

Exit Registry Editor:

1. At the command prompt, type exit to exit Registry Editor.
2. Press ENTER.
3. Click Restart.

DCodd

sco0ter wrote: »

What version of Vista is it?????

BASIC service pack??? what

There are LOADS of articles about this on MS. I had this problem with my Home Premium but that was installing SP1

This is what I did



Use the System Recovery options to rename the Pending.xml file and edit the registry:

1. On the System Recovery Options page, click Command Prompt.
2. Type cd C:\windows\winsxs, and then press ENTER.
3. Type ren pending.xml pending.old, and then press ENTER.
4. Type regedit, and then press ENTER.
5. Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
6. On the File menu, click Load Hive.
7. Locate the following folder: C:\windows\system32\config\components
8. When you are prompted for a name, type Offline_Components.
9. In Registry Editor, locate and then delete the following registry subkey: HLKM\Offline Components\AdvancedInstallersNeedResolving
   HKLM\Offline Components\PendingXmlIdentifier

Exit Registry Editor:

1. At the command prompt, type exit to exit Registry Editor.
2. Press ENTER.
3. Click Restart.

Hi All, sorry for delay in replying and sorry I seemed to have started an argument. Just for the record our IT is outsourced to a small IT company and I do favours for them so they are happy to reciprocate.

Any way, we found a solution!

After searching the net and trying a number of things the following worked.

The pending download is held in the C:\windows\winsxs file. Not confident enough to do it myself I got the IT guru to do it for me. On the command prompt screen acess the file (C:\windows\winsxs dir) in there will be pending .xml file(s) then type the command delete pending*.* and bingo! All is good again!

Looks similar to what you have identified scOter thanks.

Thanks to all for replying.