Problems with Windows Updates

patcat

The new Windows update that came out this week wont download to my computer. The PC is on automatic update and has never done this before. The shield keeps showing in my task bar and says that new updates are available to instal, so I click to instal and it goes through the usual progress and says its done, the shield disappears for a sec or 2 then reappears and it still says the need to download. The download is K936181 each time. Have tried turning PC off and it says click to download updates, do this and its says its installing them, then turns off, but when I turn it back on, the shield is there again.
Any suggestions ?

isofa

Try installing them manually from: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

mr_fishbulb

936181 is a pain. The way I got round it was to download and install this patch:
http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=46a30073-c3df-473b-99e4-66380a5cc117&displaylang=en

It says it's for Vista, but it works on XP machines. Reboot your machine and it should be OK

patcat

Many thanks, that seems to have sorted it out. Much appreciated.