I recently had to use a system recover to roll my computer back to
"day one (The way it was the first day I turned on my computer).

I am trying to install updates on the windows update website. I have an hp
pavilion 520w, running on windows XP Home.

The website first looks to make sure I have current update software
installed on my computer.

It then says I need to install the following:

Update for Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) 2.0 and
WinHTTP 5.1 (KB842773)
0 KB , 0 minutes (Downloaded; ready to install)
This software updates the Background Intelligent Transfer Service
(BITS) to v2.0 and updates WinHTTP. These updates help
ensure an optimal download experience with future versions of Automatic
Updates, Windows Update, and other programs that rely on BITS to
transfer files using idle network bandwidth.


Total: 0 KB , 0 minutes (Downloaded; ready to install).

As you can see, it says it is already downloaded, and is supposedly ready
to install, although the Total bytes downloaded shows to be zero.

At this point is tells me to restart for the downloaded updates to take
effect.

When I restart, it tells me I need to download the above update
software again, and seems to be stuck in a loop trying to download this one
update. I can not get past it.

I would ultimately like to install Service Pack 2, but I can't get past
the first update I have tried to download since I did the System
Recover.

Thank you for you help.