02-15-2008, 12:53 AM
I'm trying to get a laptop set up for a user at another site. It came with XP SP2 installed, but it still needed about 85 updates. Then I installed Office...another 20 updates. It installed about 20 of them then said that it needed to reboot. Fine. After that the updates fail with no explanation, no errors, no log files...just 'failed'. Where does one start to trouble shoot something like this. Microsoft always seems to throw their efforts at creating tools to recover from catastrophic problems rather than preventing them.