[Dad-MSFT]

And when you try to install the standalone installer, you get the same error message inside the install routine that you do in WindowsUpdate, correct?

That's kind of weird.

[Dad-MSFT]

You can zip the windowsupdate.log and send it to dawnsapple@hotmail.com.

I know spam bots will pick up that email address. It lives to collect spam :-)

[paulb100]

hi, thanks for your help
ive done it... it just needed restarting to configure updates it already installed (though it didnt notify to be restarted or anything??? )

once i rebooted update worked...this new Vista is great when it works... like the solution checker + Aero Glass...

again thanks for ur help

[mcqdogg]

I've read this thread over and over and I still can't figure out what you did to solve it. In fact, I've read every forum thread on the web about this and no one seems to know what to do. Please help. My error occurs after clicking "check for updates". I can see the update it's trying to install if I wait for the "updates ready to install" icon to show up in the task bar, but this doesn't install. I tried to manually install it, but I get to the end of the process and it fails (I'll check exactly what it says when I get home from work today). It's an XML update. Do you think this update alone is the problem? Everyone else seems to blame it on KB929777 which came installed on my notebook and cannot be uninstalled. Perhaps it would work if it could somehow ignore the current update it's trying to install. Man I wish I just went with XP. Any help would be huge. Thanks!

[paulb100]

I simply rebooted...
this problem occured after installing VISTA and it must have autoupdated and needed a reboot... but because i didnt reboot this happened...
I simply rebooted - it installed updates - then it restarted and it downloaded more updates...
as if it needed the update already installed to be rebooted before windows update would work again... does this not work for you?

[vbuckjr]

I am thinking that your computer has 4 GB of RAM I think that is causing the problem, check out the below link.

http://ask-leo.com/what_is_error_800...ta_update.html

Haven't seen a fix for this yet.

[crazlunatic]

You mean all you did was reboot? So throughout the course of posting in this thread you didn't reboot once?

[paulb100]

yes - but it needed an update that required a reboot before windows update would work further...