Trying to download/install Service Pack 2

[slickvic22]

Went to windowsupdate.microsoft.com. Clicked on express and custom several times. Both pop up Service Pack 2. Click on install. Window pops up and says preparing to install.... Then after about 20 secs it fails. Says unable to install.

Error Code: 8007F0CC

??????????

Automatic update goes to start and then shuts down.
??????

Windows XP Pro


Very very confused!

[johnnyis42]

i found this on a web page, it is by no means my original solution.....


Fix for error code 8007F0CC while downloading SP2.
This error code seems to be due to a modified boot.ini
file. The most common reason for modifying the boot.ini
is to overlay a new boot screen during windows boot.

The generic, unmodified line under the [operating
systems] section of the boot.ini file should look as
follows.

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft
Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

Some programs that change the boot screen add a variable
to the end of this line such as /Kernel='some-file-
name'.exe

Remove this variable, reboot, and try the SP2 install
again.


ok, that's what they said, i almost forgot to add though.... if you're using windows xp home, you can change the line that says "Microsoft
Windows XP Professional" to whatever you want, that doesn't really do anything, as it is the lable that you see in the choices in the boot loader. you can make it say "jo blow's windows puke"
or whatever else you want.
This worked on many of my client machines.

[slickvic22]

genius how you knew i had a changed boot screen. i'll have to try to add that. Thanks.