Vista Tutorial - SP2 freezes during installation

Hi,

I have Home Premium SP1 on a Dell Dimension 9200 machine. I downloaded SP2 from Windows Update and during installation, the process freezes with the following message: !!OXCO190036!! 279614590 (WAB32.DLL). The middle set of digits changes everytime I try to reinstall SP2.

I did not deactivate my antivirus program before installing but I did use the Vista Update Readiness Tool to no avail.

Now I know the "wab" file refers to an adress book in Windows. I don't use Windows Mail but Mozilla Thunderbird. Could this be causing me this problem?

Comments???

I had a similar problem. I had Home Premium X64 and tried to install the SP1 update. I failed miserably on 3 sibling computers. Then I found out that a very big percent of Vista users fail to update the SP1. The only real solution was to fresh install a copy of Vista with SP1. I suggest that you do the same. Install a fresh copy of Vista with SP2.

p.s
Today my auto updates picked up a new update available:
windows vista sp2 standalone (KB948465).
I am going to ignore this update for a very long time :-)

Thanks for your response.

Now, if only a fresh copy of Vista with SP2 would be available "free of charge"... I guess I'll just upgrade to Windows 7

now, You don't want to make the same mistake twice. Wait for Windows 7 with SP2 :-)