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Windows updates are failing

Jan 13, 2011 12:02PM PST

Windows updates are failing when trying to be installed. Tried Microsoft Fixit50202 to reinstall windows update but now that wont intall.
any suggestions?

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Give it a day or two
Jan 13, 2011 10:11PM PST

Give it a day or two. Sometimes when there's a heavy load on the Windows Update servers, this sort of thing happens. If you wait a day or two, it almost always clears up on its own.

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Jan 14, 2011 3:20AM PST

Thank you, I'll try that.