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ryazmom

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Nov 24, 2007, 9:44:00 PM11/24/07
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I have installed this update so many times. What do I do to fix it??

HELP!!!

Security Update for Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 Service Pack 2 (KB936181)


firemantodd

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Nov 24, 2007, 10:38:01 PM11/24/07
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Same thing here! What is going on?
>

TaurArian

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Nov 25, 2007, 12:17:45 AM11/25/07
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Did you check the known issues?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936181

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kyaar117

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Nov 25, 2007, 11:18:01 PM11/25/07
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I am having the exact same problem. The computer tells me that the install
in complete. I check the history and it says the install is successful, but
everytime I get ready to shut down, the same update keeps popping up. Please
help!!!!!!!!!!!

Taffyanne

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Nov 27, 2007, 9:56:04 AM11/27/07
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Taffyanne

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Nov 27, 2007, 10:01:01 AM11/27/07
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I"m also having problems with the Microsoft service pack thing... I've gone
to the web site you mentioned, and i can't make any sense of it. I'm too
afraid to follow the prompts as I can't find the exact codes mentioned in the
document. I have xp, not vista, will i bugger my computer if i throw caution
to the wind and make a few guesses? or am i better off sending my week old
computer back to the makers and getting them to fix it?

Bruce

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Aug 25, 2008, 12:18:01 AM8/25/08
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TaurArian. You have been very kind to direct people to the known issues.
In another post you copied in the directions to make the repair. Please do
not construe what I am writing as an attack on you.

I do hope Microsoft has someone reading these, and acting on the information
provided.

I have 4 computers. Each of those is running properly licensed Windows O/S
& MS Office Professional. That is a fair bit of money. I expect for my
money that MS will provide properly written updates that function properly.

I am not comfortable messing with o/s files, and do not intend to do so. If
I wanted to mess about the o/s files, I would be using Linux & ODF software.

If MS wants me to install their software on future computers, or to upgrade
the software on existing computers, I expect better service and competent
professional programmers.

If MS is going to force me to manually modify / remove / install o/s files
to make their updates run properly, Then future computers will not be using
MS software.

Bruce

Gordon

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Aug 25, 2008, 3:40:00 AM8/25/08
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"Bruce" <Br...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> TaurArian. You have been very kind to direct people to the known issues.
> In another post you copied in the directions to make the repair. Please
> do
> not construe what I am writing as an attack on you.
>
> I do hope Microsoft has someone reading these, and acting on the
> information
> provided.
>
> I have 4 computers. Each of those is running properly licensed Windows
> O/S
> & MS Office Professional. That is a fair bit of money. I expect for my
> money that MS will provide properly written updates that function
> properly.
>
> I am not comfortable messing with o/s files, and do not intend to do so.
> If
> I wanted to mess about the o/s files, I would be using Linux & ODF
> software.
>
>
> If MS wants me to install their software on future computers, or to
> upgrade
> the software on existing computers, I expect better service and competent
> professional programmers.
>
> If MS is going to force me to manually modify / remove / install o/s files
> to make their updates run properly, Then future computers will not be
> using
> MS software.
>

The problem is that there are literally MILLIONS and MILLIONS of different
combinations of hardware and software existing on machines round the world.
MS cannot POSSIBLY test their updates against that HUGE number of different
configurations...they would never get out of Redmond....

Harry Johnston [MVP]

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Aug 25, 2008, 11:36:55 PM8/25/08
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Bruce wrote:

> If MS is going to force me to manually modify / remove / install o/s files
> to make their updates run properly, Then future computers will not be using
> MS software.

Unfortunately the problems typically are not caused by the Microsoft software,
but by third-party software which interferes with the proper operation of
Windows. There is very little Microsoft can realistically do about this.

Harry.

judy52sa

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Sep 17, 2008, 4:00:06 PM9/17/08
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It's not comforting to *finally* find this (after searching the Microsoft
Updates pages for umpteen minutes to begin with) and then to discover that
people have been having this SAME PROBLEM since November, 2007?? I didn't
start having it until I recently downloaded/installed the new Windows XP
Service Pack 3 just last week. I keep getting the alert to download
Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 Service Pack 2 Security Update KB936181.....I
keep thinking that I shouldn't even be receiving this alert....now that I
have Windows XP Service Pack 3??????

Please help fix this, Microsoft! It's ridiculous to continue to be
annoyed with the same alert to dl/install the same update...I've now done it
successfully 24 times over the past handful of days! But I'm not
technologically saavy enough to "not" respond to the alert and to do it. I
have everything set on Automatic Updates, and yet the little yellow warning
sign still appears in my status bar down in the right hand corner...asking me
to dl/install separately from any Automatic Update function setting I have.
Obviously there's an error....my update history says that I've successfully
installed the same update 24 times! Get with it, Microsoft~~~

....and I agree with some of the posters below....surely someone from
Microsoft monitors and addresses these issues????????????????

Judy

PA Bear [MS MVP]

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Sep 17, 2008, 5:15:57 PM9/17/08
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Have you bothered to read the Known Issues section of KB936181?

TaurArian

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Sep 17, 2008, 5:29:51 PM9/17/08
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And you read: Security Update for Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 Service
Pack 2
(KB936181) may repeatedly appear in the update list on Microsoft
Update or on Windows Update:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941729

And of course, you would naturally have checked the Known Issues section -
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936181


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Harry Johnston [MVP]

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Sep 18, 2008, 3:12:26 AM9/18/08
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judy52sa wrote:

> [...] I keep getting the alert to download

> Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 Service Pack 2 Security Update KB936181.....I
> keep thinking that I shouldn't even be receiving this alert....now that I
> have Windows XP Service Pack 3??????

This update does apply to Windows XP service pack 3. (The "service pack 2" in
the update title refers to the XML Core Services software, not to Windows XP.)

PA Bear and TaurArian have already provided the information necessary to get
this update to successfully install, at which point it will no longer be offered
by Automatic Updates.

Harry.

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