[James_OBrien]

I recentley reloaded my PC entirely, I visited the Windows Update site and
installed all critical updates up to and including Security Update for
Microsoft .NET Framework, Version 1.1 Service Pack 1 (KB886903).

However, when I try to download and install the next critical update, which
is "Security Update for Windows XP (KB885250)", the download or the
installation fails, giving me the error code 0x8007010B. All there is on the
internet about this code is that it means "The directory name is invalid".
Can someone help me please?

[Robert Aldwinckle]

"James_OBrien" <James_OBrien@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:63D82C40-4759-4188-9EA7-B947E6CA8BEB@microsoft.com...
>I recentley reloaded my PC entirely, I visited the Windows Update site and
> installed all critical updates up to and including Security Update for
> Microsoft .NET Framework, Version 1.1 Service Pack 1 (KB886903).
>
> However, when I try to download and install the next critical update, which
> is "Security Update for Windows XP (KB885250)", the download or the
> installation fails, giving me the error code 0x8007010B. All there is on the
> internet about this code is that it means "The directory name is invalid".
> Can someone help me please?


My guess is that either the SoftwareDistribution directory is corrupt
or you have a permissions problem associated with it or with the user
account which is doing the update.

So the first thing to do is look in your log for clues about what has been
happening. You may find that there is not sufficient detail in the log to
make any good inferences about that. In that case it may be a good idea
to monitor your update session with FileMon (freeware from SysInternals).
The input filter that I like to use (for WUv5 and WUv6 sessions) is:
SoftwareDistribution;Update;CatRoot The effect of it should be to interleave
accesses to the two data repositories that WU or AU use along with any
writes to the WindowsUpdate.log which are intended to track the progress
of the updates.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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