"PA Bear" wrote:

> X-post to WinME General
>
> Before proceeding further with installing updates, please take the time to
> address the following questions. Doing so might save you a lot of
> headaches:
>
> Prior to reinstalling WinME, had you installed IE6 SP1?
>
> If so, did you uninstall IE6 before reinstalling WinME?

Yes, I had installed SP1. I did not uninstall IE6 prior to reinstalling
WinME. I reformatted the hard drive because I could not get the computer to
work at all, so wiped it clean in order to at least have a working computer.

The reason I am asking this is becuase I have had this problem before. I
formatted my hard drive, leaving me with 5 years worth of windows updates to
install. One would think that I could let windows update do its thing and
that it would install the updates in the proper order. WRONG!! This leaves
me in the position where I have installed every update and every day windows
tells me that I have 1 particular update that needs installing. When I go to
similar discussions like this one, they tell me that I have installed the
updates in the wrong order. An example would be having update 2 installed
before update 1 makes update 1 not install properly. This is why I am here.
Instead of checking them all and letting windows install them in its own
order (which does not work - I believe I have read hundreds of posts on this
forum in which this is the problem), I thought I would install them 1 by 1 in
the porper order saving me lots of headaches later. I also read the post
saying to look at the update numbers, and install them in order. Some of the
updates are numbered with a 6 digit number, some are numbered with a Q and a
6 dgit number. Am I to install from low to high, Q's first, or Q's last??
There HAS to be a schedule or a list somewhere where someone can simply tell
me install this update 1st, then this update 2nd, then this update 3rd and so
on. Windows does not do this properly by itself.

Again thank you for your time!!!!!

Dan