Windows update stupidity

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Computer downloaded three Office 2007 security updates day before yesterday and keeps installing them every time I turn off the machine. They won't go away!

grrr....

Never have had this happen before.

David
 
I have applied the same updates at home about 5 times now. I am not sure if they are MS Office or not.
I have seen this once before and I forget how I fixed it. I THINK I went into ADD/DELETE programs, checked off to show updates and deleted the ones in question. Then I think they reinstalled ok. I was planning to check out at home this weekend to see if it works again.
 
I just looked online and found a long list of people saying they are having the same issues with different versions of Vista and Win7.

None of them have been able to fix it. So waiting for a fix from MS.

David
 
Me too. Just started today.
 
MS has had this problem before with some of their updates.

I have the problem on an XP machine. I do not have the problem on a Win7 machine. It may be a subtle hint.
 
Same here the last 3 days
 
I haven't had the problem, but I don't have automatic updates. I manually select which ones I want.

YMMV.
 
you may be able to fix the stuck updates by going into safe mode, and deleting the contents of the folder "c:\windows\software distribution". That's where the un-applied updates hang out. It should re-download them (or not), and give you an opportunity to install them (or not).
 
I've had this happen with Windows 7. Shutting down, doing from one place at ORD to the gate. Fortunately it finished before we actually boarded. Really annoying.
 
There was IT press this week that MSFT really screwed the pooch on Office updates this last "Patch Tuesday" and even publicized there were 14 patches coming and only 13 cane out to which they admitted in interviews that one security patch was so badly broken they couldn't release it, "but the problem hasn't been seen exploited in the wild yet".

They go through periods of this. Whether you'll have to live with it until the next month's Patch Tuesday or if they'll get a KB article and fix out prior to then is anyone's guess. The Office team blew it.

I twiddled with the Office 2013 patches today at work hoping I wouldn't fall victim to losing my folder list which is the reported problem there. It errored, I set it to be ignored, finished all the other patches and then in ignored it and tried again.

Often doing them one at a time will straighten out the bad behavior. One patch, reboot... Another, reboot. Takes forever. But sometimes works.
 
I am running XP. I noted the updates (two MSOFFICE and one EXCEL) that were trying to install and went into control panel - add/remove programs (showing updates). I found they had already been applied so I removed them and rebooted and reapplied them. I rebooted again and they were still trying to apply but I rebooted again and they are gone now.

The same procedure worked for me about a year ago on a different system. I think that was a Windows 7 system.
 
Checking this morning and the problem seems to have resolved itself.

David
 
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