Something Fishy...

[fred devliegher]

A friend of mine has had a weird problem - he kept being prompted to install the same XP update (KB835732). I told him to remove the update - my guess was as good as his - redownload, and reinstall it. Everything went smooth until reboot; I wasn't there, but the machine took ages to start then reported it had recovered from a "critical failure". The update warning hasn't reappeared, though.

Normal hiccup or a possible problem ?

[Chewie]

IIRC there was a critical update that addressed erroneous 'system has recovered form a critical failure' messages which was incorporated into SP1. If SP1 has been installed, though, it shouldn't be that.

[firefox]

instead of installing that update from the critical updates web site, download it directly from MS and then install it. I had to do this on some computers.

[fred devliegher]

I'll pass on the message.