"Tom Bean" <tbean@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
news:uI5IOl75FHA.1032@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl
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> Any other ideas?

>> Did you read Dave Hawley's thread?


>I uninstalled and reinstalled Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 SP4 but after
> restarting, Windows Update still tells me I need to install Update Rollup 1
> for Windows 2000 SP4.
>
> As you suggested, I ran MBSA and all it tells me in the Update Rollups and
> Service Packs section is that Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 SP4 is
> missing. Now it has a yellow X instead of the red X it had earlier.
....


That looks as if you are using the new MBSA and not the old one that
Dave had to use. The tools that I had hoped he could use apparently
don't exist (e.g. /hf /v /z options for mbsacli and the /verbose switch
on the update's command line) so if MBSA 1.2.1 doesn't give you the
same clues that it gave to him the only thing left it seems is the sort
of brute force analysis that I also suggested to him in that thread.

For newer, more refined, techniques see also other recent threads
elsewhere in this newsgroup about the same issue.
Keywords: FileMon RegMon Milleseconds


An alternative to doing your own diagnosis is waiting for someone like
Dave to come along and find a new solution. In my experience his type
is rarely seen in here. We need more trailblazers like that.


Good luck

Robert
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