Re: OT: XP SP3 setup error

On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:53:21 -0700, Robert Baer
<robertbaer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

..that is what the damn window says with the following incomplete and
useless "Access is denied" message.
Access to what? Where? Why? --- ZERO info. POS.
This happens almost exactly half the way thru the process as seen by
the progress bar.
What is more irritating that all of the work that had been done is
then UNDONE!

How in the #$&@#)^%!%^# can this be fixed?

Paint yourself blue and dance naked around a bonfire? Likely to be as
good as other suggestions. ;-)

Seriously, MS has its usual knowledge base article
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949377 where they point out that the
service pack failure is *your* fault.

Although I've successfully installed SP3 on three machines, it fails
with the error you're seeing on an older laptop. Solutions 1 & 2 from
the KB article were no help; I haven't tried the third yet.

Interestingly, the three that took the update without problems all had
some flavor of Intel processor and all accepted the SP with the
machine's usual firewall/anti-virus/anti-whatever running. The laptop,
an Athlon, errors-out even with ZA shutdown. Hmmm.

--
Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
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