Fix automatic update of XP?

Picked up a used Dell and fortunately it has a partition to the factory with SP2 in place. When I try to use the automatic update even if it connects to the page, but after the scan says basically, "not work, look at these 3 links and trying to figure out how to fix it."  After much reading and confusion, I thought that I was trying to install SP3, thinking that he could include a patch or something. Bad news!  I can't find SP3 in a downloadable form so my main computer can store only on a stick and then place it in this older machine. Anyone know the shortcut on how to fix the automatic updates?

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Thank you XP rocks... which probably would have worked too. What I ended up doing was chatting online with Microsoft and they walked me some tests Serivces looking on the computer. A few things here have been set to manual, not on automatic (how, why were they on the manual, I don't know). in any case, after the definition of those and have to restart the computer, I lost the tech. However, she sent a link to me who had SP3 top. After that I loaded SP3 and then checked for updates. 123 installed, so now I'm updating.

I'm sorry to hear that Microsoft will end for those of us who pick up these mobile older one once in awhile and need this kind of help. Thumbs up for the help I got this time... but thumbs down to them later, declining support. -ColoradoRobert

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