i am having a lot of trouble installing service pack 2 for vista business (32 bit). several months ago, windows update notified me that sp2 was available. i downloaded it and installed it. right away i noticed there was something wrong. it indicated it was fully installed after about 10 seconds and it should have taken a lot longer than that to install. since i was at work and busy with other things, i just kind of ignored it. however, every day, windows update notifies me that sp2 is available to download. windows tells me the update is 6MB and that the update was successfully installed. however, it clearly isnt installing sp2 as it installs in mere seconds, the file size is wrong and there were no restarts during the process. i checked the update history and it shows sp2 as successfully installed about 30 different times. i tried to uninstall the sp2 updates but the option to uninstall was not available.
i downloaded sp2 file (about 350MB) from microsoft and attempted to install it. i got an error message indicating sp2 could not be installed because sp1 was not installed. i thought sp1 was already installed. when i check the system details it indicates that sp1 was installed. however, when i viewed the update history i discovered that sp1 installation was listed as failed with the error code 800706BE. i downloaded sp1 from microsoft and attempted to install this. however, i got an error message indicating that sp1 was already installed.
anyone have any ideas on what to try next?
i downloaded sp2 file (about 350MB) from microsoft and attempted to install it. i got an error message indicating sp2 could not be installed because sp1 was not installed. i thought sp1 was already installed. when i check the system details it indicates that sp1 was installed. however, when i viewed the update history i discovered that sp1 installation was listed as failed with the error code 800706BE. i downloaded sp1 from microsoft and attempted to install this. however, i got an error message indicating that sp1 was already installed.
anyone have any ideas on what to try next?