Wow i thought i was the only one having that problem me too i install IE7 first then the hotfixes using batch mode by this command for %%i in (%systemdrive%\install\Hotfixes1\*.exe) do start /wait %%i /z /n /o /q but like u i have KB929969 in my windows update Edit i have found that kb929969 is different from this KB929969 it appears that there is one KB929969 for windows xp SP2 and another one by the same name for only Internet Explorer 7 So should we include both of them ? Thanx in advance