Please include all of previous message(s) in your replies to the newsgroup,
DD.

> I have installed every update and every
> day windows tells me that I have 1 particular update that needs
> installing.

I see. You didn't mention this in your original post. Which update?
837009, by any chance?
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), AH-VSOP

dannydud0828 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?
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dannydud0828 wrote:
> I have Windows ME on my computer and recently had to go to the recovery CD
> and reformat my hard drive. Now everything is back to normal, but I lost
> all of the Windows Updates that have been installed since I purchased the
> computer. I have read the threads about install order becoming a problem
> and making people install updates multiple times without success. I am
> hoping to avoid this problem. So I was wondering if there is a
> comprehensive list of which order to install the updates. I have 31
> updates to install (23 critical and 8 wWindows ME), dating back to the
> middle of 2001. Can anyone help???
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>
> 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.