SP3 upgrade - hanging on cleanup

Stragely enough, I did not see anything related to what is actually going on..

When you run the installer, if you monitor the system event log (and refresh

every so often) you will see that during the "cleanup" it is actually

installing hot fixes post SP3. Now what I was looking for was something on

this topic so I can determine if the process is actually installing the post

SP3 hot fixes that were previously installed or if they were part of the SP3

installer. I suspect it was the former, as I could not find anything in the

install package that indicated there were follow-on patches.

Maybe someone else out there can expand on this.

"Bernd" wrote:

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> > This is getting to be old news, but it seems like about 50% of all the

> > computers that I apply the Service Pack 3 upgrade to anymore will hang up

> > on "performing cleanup". After giving it about an hour to finish (and

> > sometimes it actually will) I just cancel it and reboot. And the Service

> > pack seems to be installed properly. I haven't had a casualty yet doing

> > this but it makes me very nervous... :-)

> > Is this something that one can do in advance to prevent this from

> > happening?

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> Did you look into the Update History of Windows Update ?

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> There should be a red button with a white cross next to the Service Pack

> 3 installation. Clicking on it should give you a return code from the

> killed installation.

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> Bernd

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