.NET 3.5 update fails first time every time

I'm putting this out here FWIW because so many people are having trouble
with this update.

I have installed it on five computers now, 3 XP Pro, 1 Vista Home, 1 Server
2008 (brand new installation). Every single time, it failed on the first
attempt and succeeded on the second.

It seems like something wrong here, but at least it seemed to fix itself.

I have noticed that even though the installation
says it has completed and may ask you to restart
the PC, in fact there is background disk and
installation activity still taking place for about another
two minutes. In my case I have always waited for the CPU
to return to the idle state before rebooting.

Since I have not experienced your particular problem
this is the only advice I can give other then saying that
I did not use Windows Update but chose to download
the 3.5 SP1 file to the hard drive and then perform the
update.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com


"Paul Pedersen" <nospam@no.spam> wrote in message
news:Ori2RuQpJHA.4848@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> I'm putting this out here FWIW because so many people are having trouble
> with this update.
>
> I have installed it on five computers now, 3 XP Pro, 1 Vista Home, 1
> Server 2008 (brand new installation). Every single time, it failed on the
> first attempt and succeeded on the second.
>
> It seems like something wrong here, but at least it seemed to fix itself.
>
>
>
>

I should have mentioned that it succeeded after I restarted, following the
failed update. Restarting seems to be necessary.



"JS" <@> wrote in message news:uZLpK7QpJHA.500@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>I have noticed that even though the installation
> says it has completed and may ask you to restart
> the PC, in fact there is background disk and
> installation activity still taking place for about another
> two minutes. In my case I have always waited for the CPU
> to return to the idle state before rebooting.
>
> Since I have not experienced your particular problem
> this is the only advice I can give other then saying that
> I did not use Windows Update but chose to download
> the 3.5 SP1 file to the hard drive and then perform the
> update.
>
> --
> JS
> http://www.pagestart.com
>
>
> "Paul Pedersen" <nospam@no.spam> wrote in message
> news:Ori2RuQpJHA.4848@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> I'm putting this out here FWIW because so many people are having trouble
>> with this update.
>>
>> I have installed it on five computers now, 3 XP Pro, 1 Vista Home, 1
>> Server 2008 (brand new installation). Every single time, it failed on the
>> first attempt and succeeded on the second.
>>
>> It seems like something wrong here, but at least it seemed to fix itself.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>