Cannot use now updated successfully on Vista. Any suggestions?

I missed the 12 recent Vista updates because update no longer seems to function properly. It downloads and installs updates apparently but later configuration fails and updates are backed out. The only error message is something to the effect that update has failed.

Hi AlanPrescott,

You can read the following article to reset the Windows Update components and see if it helps.

How to reset the Windows Update components?

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