Thursday 19 January 2012

Windows XP's updates failed


On a portable computer not all of the automatic updates were successful.  There were following errors in the Windows XP's log:

Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070643: Security Update for PowerPoint Viewer 2003 (KB969615).

Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x8007f00c: Security Update for Windows XP Service Pack 3 (KB973540).
Neither downloaded updates weren't successful.


In the first case I didn't searched for any special solution, but I removed the PowerPoint Viewer 2003 and installed the Viewer 2007.

Another was solved by removing Windows Media Player 11 and Windows Media Format Runtime 11.  After a restart, first I installed all of the available updates. Then I installed the Media Player 11 again, and now also the update was successful.