Man..i tried that and it looked like it was going to go through, but when I
went to the update website again, it is still doing the same thing. oh
well...thanks for the suggestion anyway man.

"TaurArian [MS-MVP]" wrote:

> Try manually downloading the BITS package and install it.
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
> Update for Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) 2.0 and WinHTTP 5.1 (KB842773)
> Note: This download is available to customers running genuine Microsoft Windows
>
> or look in the SoftwareDistribution folder under Windows and see if the download has actually
> occurred. If it has, you may be able to install it manually from there. Another user did this when
> the downloads failed to install.
>
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>
> "Koolbreeze" <Koolbreeze@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2E413B1C-B78D-40C6-9735-7065D25495FE@microsoft.com...
> >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.
> >
>
>