kb969856 Keeps Installing
Hi,
My Vista Ultimate 64 SP1 machine has been set by the OS to 'install update
and shutdown computer' every night for a week. Each night I've done that. A
check of installed updates shows kb969856 as successfully installed on 6
nights in a row, but it comes back and asks to do it again. How can I get out
of the loop?
Cheers.
Re: kb969856 Keeps Installing
Not the most helpful of suggestions. As customer outside the US and Canada,
the best help the links suggest is to post a question in this group!
If you do know of a specific link that I've missed, I'd be very pleased to
hear about it.
Re: kb969856 Keeps Installing
I checked the log windowsupdate.log, which, whilst not the easiest to read,
clearly shows a success (a 0X00000 errorcode) for the update.
As it is I've decided to take Virtual PC off the machine, which has cleared
the issue - I use VMWare more these days, though a reinstall sometime in the
future may be on the cards.
Again thanks for you help.
Re: kb969856 Keeps Installing
I am having the same issue with the KB969856 update reinstalling everytime I
boot. This is quite annoying. I reside in the US, I have Vsta Home Premium
32 SP1 installed, I have VPC2007 SP1 installed. I would like to continue
usig VPC2007 but, if this continues, I will try others such as VMware or Sun
VirtualBox.
RE: kb969856 Keeps Installing
I have the same problem as well. I have Vista Home Premium (32-bit), IE 8,
and Virtual PC 2007 SP1 (both Virtual PC 2007 and Virtual PC 2007 SP1 are
showing up in my Programs and Features).
This has become quite an annoyance. I use Virtual PC and don't really have
the option at the current time to uninstall it.
I am going to turn off automatic updates I suppose, until someone at
Microsoft can resolve this issue. It appears that there are quite a few out
there with this problem regarding KB969856.
Any help would be appreciated.
RE: kb969856 Keeps Installing
Here's the SOLUTION to the problem.
The problem is that Vista x64 is trying to install the 32bit version and
ends up in this "endless" loop. Here's the fix:
1) got to
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
2) Download the 64 bit version of the program
3) Install the program and reboot
4) Go to Windows update and you will see that there still is 1 update (the
same one remaining to be installed)
5) Go ahead and click the update.
6) Windows will then reply that the update is not needed and will remove the
reference
7) SOLVED
Re: kb969856 Keeps Installing
I do'nt know if this thread is still unsolved (being a new member as of today) but I had the same problem today in Windows 7.
Time and again KB969856 was downloaded and installed.
I found out that, in my case, it had to do with the fact that I had both Virtual PC 2007 and SP1 of Virtual PC 2007 installed. Which seems to be a good idea, doesn't it? I de-installed both and re-installed a freshly downloaded version of Virtual PC 2007. After that, I ran Windows update, which installed KB969856.
This made the problem disapear. I do not know what happend to SP1, but it is probably included in the newly downloaded VPC 2007 (??)