Deb said:
Microsoft Automatic Update System has requested I install "Security
Update for Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 Service Pack 2
(KB954430)" 15 times over the past 4 days. My Update History
indacates that each time it was installed successfully, yet the
Automatic Update Messager keeps requesting that I install it yet
again. Any Ideas?
Always look at the articles that reference the update - sometimes you'll
find your answer embedded in the information about the patch you are trying
to install.
You know the KB article #, as you gave it: 954430
Take that and put together the microsoft page that references it:
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/###### or:
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/954430
In this case - if you scroll down to the "Known issues with this security
update" section, you might find:
"This security update may repeatedly appear in the update list on Microsoft
Update or on Windows Update if one of the system files is corrupted or if it
has not been updated correctly."
Reading more, you'd see it points you to:
Security updates for Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 Service Pack 2 may
repeatedly appear in the update list on Microsoft Update or on Windows
Update
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941729/
Which tells you to:
To resolve this problem, follow these steps:
1. Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then press ENTER.
2. At the command prompt, type ren %windir%\System32\msxml4.dll msxml4.old,
and then press ENTER.
*Note* After you press ENTER, you may receive the following error message:
Cannot find the file specified.
Ignore this message, and go to step 3.
3. At the command prompt, type exit, and then press ENTER.
4. Visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://www.update.microsoft.com
5. Download and then install the latest MSXML security update.
