Hi,
On an HP laptop running VISTA Home Premium 32 bit I cannot apply SP1. I get
an 0x800F0286 error right at the end. I have seen the fix for this and it is
to make 2 services automatic. They are Windows Event Collector and Windows
Module Installer. I am running as an admin and set these to Automatic. Now I
also run msconfig to disable all the non MS services and try again. It still
fails but the Windows Module Installer is set back to Manual. I recently
upgraded the Windows Installer to the 4.5 version but the upgrade still
fails. I can install all other patches using Microsoft Update but not SP1.
I feel I could change Windows Module Installer to have a dependency to
something that is automatic to ensure it starts but I am at a loss to
explain why the setting gets changed back. I thought that it might be
Microsoft Update but I am not so sure.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Chris