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Thanks to all for the excellent, informative help. A little backgroung, then the logs. I have my updates set to Auto at 3:00 when I'm (hopefully) sleeping. Sure enough, according to WindowUpdate.log, it did it's thing. The same five failures occured; no messages on my panel. So when I turn the box off to go to work (aka, the Coffee Shop), it attempt to run updates again, killing about 15 minutes, informing me that updates are under way and giving a dire warning to NOT turn off my computer...hence the repetitive waste of time. First, the simple question....I tell Updates to try at 3 am; why is it trying again every time I power down? FYI, I'm at XP Pro, SP3. From the log: For Error 1 and error 5, I list the whole log entry. for 2-4, just the object that failed: 1) REPORT EVENT: {999D823B-D51C-4859-B577-AB37B6E9AFCB} 2011-08-31 03:01:21:562-0700 1 195 101 {61DCAB34-53C0-4866-84E3-83B157E1D644} 100 80070643 AutomaticUpdates Failure Content Install Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070643: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Family Update (KB959209) x86. 2) Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070643: Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 and 3.5 SP1 on Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP x86 (KB2418241). 3) Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070643: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Service Pack 4 (KB2463332). 4) Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070643: Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 on Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP x86 (KB2539631). 5) REPORT EVENT: {DBCC8C20-05EC-421E-90D2-EE7D6637AF2F} 2011-08-31 03:15:07:140-0700 1 195 101 {FF0863F8-1E9D-4C0B-91A2-7EF1E2FAF357} 101 80070643 AutomaticUpdates Failure Content Install Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070643: Security Update for .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 and 3.5 SP1 on Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP x86 (KB2518864). What I notice is that they are all (except #1) for a SP that I'm not on (SP2, 3.5 or 4 - I'm at SP3). I'm grasping at straws. Thanks, folks.

New member here. Appreciate everyone and any hlep would be appreciate. Been surfing around quite a bit and am surprised that the following question is so slippery (or me dense!). I keep getting the same failed installations. I suspect I don't need them and would like to remove them from the list of updates that keep being installed. Giant, time-consuming, resource-killing pain! So: How can I see the list of pending updates and "manage items" (i.e., remove) individually? Many thanks . . .