Windows Update

I recently reloaded WinME and can not re-install windows
Service Pack 6. I have the resume install Icon on my
desktop and if I try to access it I get "A previous
installation has pending work requiring a reboot. You
meed to restart your computer to complete that
installation before running Internet Explorer Setup. Setup
will now close" I can get rid of the error by removing
the wininit.ini file from my system. By then resuming
Windows Update Setup, I get another error of "Setup was
unable to download information about available
installation sites." I do not have a proxy server and
have a hard time believing that the windows sites are not
available? What other problems may be causing this?

Did you uninstall IE6 before reinstalling WinME, if not then you may be
left with problems as you will have what is called version soup.
Have a look at the following sites to see if you can sort out your
problems.
Joan

Is this the error message :

Windows Update Setup

A previous program installation was never completed. You need to restart
your computer to complete that installation before running Internet
Explorer Setup. Setup will now close.

Error Message: A Previous Program Installation Was Never Completed
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=221863

or was it this one :

A previous installation has pending work requiring a reboot. You need to
restart your computer to complete that installation before running
internet explorer setup. Setup will now close."

Error Message When You Try to Install Internet Explorer 6.0: A Previous
Installation Has Pending Work Requiring a Reboot
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309314


MowGreen [MVP]
*-343-* Never Forgotten
Look here if you want to do an over-the-top reinstall
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/reinME.htm

or here for a 'clean install'
http://www.aumha.org/win4/a/clean.htm

HTH

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)


Connolly wrote:
I recently reloaded WinME and can not re-install windows
Service Pack 6. I have the resume install Icon on my
desktop and if I try to access it I get "A previous
installation has pending work requiring a reboot. You
meed to restart your computer to complete that
installation before running Internet Explorer Setup. Setup
will now close" I can get rid of the error by removing
the wininit.ini file from my system. By then resuming
Windows Update Setup, I get another error of "Setup was
unable to download information about available
installation sites." I do not have a proxy server and
have a hard time believing that the windows sites are not
available? What other problems may be causing this?

I now have come full circle and now have the same trouble
I had for the reason I re-installed windows. When
starting windows I get an error message, "A previous
installation has pending work requiring a reboot. You may
need to restart your computer to complete that
installation before Internet Explorer Setup. Setup will
now close"

I followed exactly the instructions found on
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/reinME.htm including
using IE6remove.zip as instructed.

The re-install of windows seemed normal and all was well
until I tried to install service pack 6. I could not
install it and found the wininit.ini file to be causing
problems including system restore to stop working.

I had this error message;

A previous installation has pending work requiring a
reboot. You need to
restart your computer to complete that installation before
running
internet explorer setup. Setup will now close."

and used this procedure;

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309314


It worked up until the install where it seem to intall but
at the end gave me an error that none of the components
have been installed???

In addition to the error message of "A pervious
installation has pending work..." appearing ever time I
start WinME I now get the additional error;

Error loading p2csocks_1014.dll The system cannot find the
file specified.


-----Original Message-----
Did you uninstall IE6 before reinstalling WinME, if not
then you may be
left with problems as you will have what is called
version soup.
Have a look at the following sites to see if you can sort
out your
problems.
Joan

Is this the error message :

Windows Update Setup

A previous program installation was never completed. You
need to restart
your computer to complete that installation before
running Internet
Explorer Setup. Setup will now close.

Error Message: A Previous Program Installation Was Never
Completed
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=221863

or was it this one :

A previous installation has pending work requiring a
reboot. You need to
restart your computer to complete that installation
before running
internet explorer setup. Setup will now close."

Error Message When You Try to Install Internet Explorer
6.0: A Previous
Installation Has Pending Work Requiring a Reboot
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309314


MowGreen [MVP]
*-343-* Never Forgotten
Look here if you want to do an over-the-top reinstall
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/reinME.htm

or here for a 'clean install'
http://www.aumha.org/win4/a/clean.htm

HTH

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)


Connolly wrote:
I recently reloaded WinME and can not re-install windows
Service Pack 6. I have the resume install Icon on my
desktop and if I try to access it I get "A previous
installation has pending work requiring a reboot. You
meed to restart your computer to complete that
installation before running Internet Explorer Setup.
Setup
will now close" I can get rid of the error by removing
the wininit.ini file from my system. By then resuming
Windows Update Setup, I get another error of "Setup was
unable to download information about available
installation sites." I do not have a proxy server and
have a hard time believing that the windows sites are
not
available? What other problems may be causing this?


.

Sorry it didn't help hopefully one of the gurus will pick up on this
thread and be able to sort you out, it is not something I can help with,
sorry.
Joan

Connolly wrote:
I now have come full circle and now have the same trouble
I had for the reason I re-installed windows. When
starting windows I get an error message, "A previous
installation has pending work requiring a reboot. You may
need to restart your computer to complete that
installation before Internet Explorer Setup. Setup will
now close"

I followed exactly the instructions found on
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/reinME.htm including
using IE6remove.zip as instructed.
snip

Connolly

You may have some registry corruption....
Try this

Start|Run
type
SCANREG /FIX
click OK - Windows will reboot

Then check for the existence of a WININIT.INI file, and rename it if it's
there - have a look at it in Notepad, and paste the contents in your reply.


--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's

"Connolly" wrote in message
...
I now have come full circle and now have the same trouble
I had for the reason I re-installed windows. When
starting windows I get an error message, "A previous
installation has pending work requiring a reboot. You may
need to restart your computer to complete that
installation before Internet Explorer Setup. Setup will
now close"

I followed exactly the instructions found on
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/reinME.htm including
using IE6remove.zip as instructed.

The re-install of windows seemed normal and all was well
until I tried to install service pack 6. I could not
install it and found the wininit.ini file to be causing
problems including system restore to stop working.

I had this error message;

A previous installation has pending work requiring a
reboot. You need to
restart your computer to complete that installation before
running
internet explorer setup. Setup will now close."

and used this procedure;

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309314


It worked up until the install where it seem to intall but
at the end gave me an error that none of the components
have been installed???

In addition to the error message of "A pervious
installation has pending work..." appearing ever time I
start WinME I now get the additional error;

Error loading p2csocks_1014.dll The system cannot find the
file specified.


-----Original Message-----
Did you uninstall IE6 before reinstalling WinME, if not
then you may be
left with problems as you will have what is called
version soup.
Have a look at the following sites to see if you can sort
out your
problems.
Joan

Is this the error message :

Windows Update Setup

A previous program installation was never completed. You
need to restart
your computer to complete that installation before
running Internet
Explorer Setup. Setup will now close.

Error Message: A Previous Program Installation Was Never
Completed
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=221863

or was it this one :

A previous installation has pending work requiring a
reboot. You need to
restart your computer to complete that installation
before running
internet explorer setup. Setup will now close."

Error Message When You Try to Install Internet Explorer
6.0: A Previous
Installation Has Pending Work Requiring a Reboot
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309314


MowGreen [MVP]
*-343-* Never Forgotten
Look here if you want to do an over-the-top reinstall
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/reinME.htm

or here for a 'clean install'
http://www.aumha.org/win4/a/clean.htm

HTH

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)


Connolly wrote:
I recently reloaded WinME and can not re-install windows
Service Pack 6. I have the resume install Icon on my
desktop and if I try to access it I get "A previous
installation has pending work requiring a reboot. You
meed to restart your computer to complete that
installation before running Internet Explorer Setup.
Setup
will now close" I can get rid of the error by removing
the wininit.ini file from my system. By then resuming
Windows Update Setup, I get another error of "Setup was
unable to download information about available
installation sites." I do not have a proxy server and
have a hard time believing that the windows sites are
not
available? What other problems may be causing this?


.

Thanks for picking up on this Noel, as you can guess I was out of my
depths g
Joan

Noel Paton wrote:
Connolly

You may have some registry corruption....
Try this

Start|Run
type
SCANREG /FIX
click OK - Windows will reboot

Then check for the existence of a WININIT.INI file, and rename it if
it's there - have a look at it in Notepad, and paste the contents in
your reply.

Thanks,

SCANREG /FIX did not solve the problem.

I renamed the file and opened it in notepade. The
following is the content.

[Rename]
NUL=C:\WINDOWS\STARTM~1\PROGRAMS\MCAFEE.COM


-----Original Message-----
Connolly

You may have some registry corruption....
Try this

Start|Run
type
SCANREG /FIX
click OK - Windows will reboot

Then check for the existence of a WININIT.INI file, and
rename it if it's
there - have a look at it in Notepad, and paste the
contents in your reply.


--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post
messages to NG's

"Connolly" wrote in
message
...
I now have come full circle and now have the same trouble
I had for the reason I re-installed windows. When
starting windows I get an error message, "A previous
installation has pending work requiring a reboot. You
may
need to restart your computer to complete that
installation before Internet Explorer Setup. Setup will
now close"

I followed exactly the instructions found on
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/reinME.htm including
using IE6remove.zip as instructed.

The re-install of windows seemed normal and all was well
until I tried to install service pack 6. I could not
install it and found the wininit.ini file to be causing
problems including system restore to stop working.

I had this error message;

A previous installation has pending work requiring a
reboot. You need to
restart your computer to complete that installation
before
running
internet explorer setup. Setup will now close."

and used this procedure;

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309314


It worked up until the install where it seem to intall
but
at the end gave me an error that none of the components
have been installed???

In addition to the error message of "A pervious
installation has pending work..." appearing ever time I
start WinME I now get the additional error;

Error loading p2csocks_1014.dll The system cannot find
the
file specified.


-----Original Message-----
Did you uninstall IE6 before reinstalling WinME, if not
then you may be
left with problems as you will have what is called
version soup.
Have a look at the following sites to see if you can
sort
out your
problems.
Joan

Is this the error message :

Windows Update Setup

A previous program installation was never completed. You
need to restart
your computer to complete that installation before
running Internet
Explorer Setup. Setup will now close.

Error Message: A Previous Program Installation Was Never
Completed
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=221863

or was it this one :

A previous installation has pending work requiring a
reboot. You need to
restart your computer to complete that installation
before running
internet explorer setup. Setup will now close."

Error Message When You Try to Install Internet Explorer
6.0: A Previous
Installation Has Pending Work Requiring a Reboot
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309314


MowGreen [MVP]
*-343-* Never Forgotten
Look here if you want to do an over-the-top reinstall
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/reinME.htm

or here for a 'clean install'
http://www.aumha.org/win4/a/clean.htm

HTH

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)


Connolly wrote:
I recently reloaded WinME and can not re-install
windows
Service Pack 6. I have the resume install Icon on my
desktop and if I try to access it I get "A previous
installation has pending work requiring a reboot. You
meed to restart your computer to complete that
installation before running Internet Explorer Setup.
Setup
will now close" I can get rid of the error by
removing
the wininit.ini file from my system. By then resuming
Windows Update Setup, I get another error of "Setup
was
unable to download information about available
installation sites." I do not have a proxy server and
have a hard time believing that the windows sites are
not
available? What other problems may be causing this?


.



.

You may have a virus/spyware hijack

download the Stinger from here and run it to make sure that A-V-disabling
viruses are not present on your PC
http://download.nai.com/products/mca...rt/stinger.exe

- update your virus scanner and run a full system scan of all files.

Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove variants of the
CoolWebSearch hijacker.
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html

Use CWShredder, the removal tool:
http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip
http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...CWShredder.exe
http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip

download AdAware from www.lavasoftusa.com, install, update, and run it to
remove spyware, adware,
and other such nasties from your system.

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's

"Connolly" wrote in message
...
Thanks,

SCANREG /FIX did not solve the problem.

I renamed the file and opened it in notepade. The
following is the content.

[Rename]
NUL=C:\WINDOWS\STARTM~1\PROGRAMS\MCAFEE.COM


-----Original Message-----
Connolly

You may have some registry corruption....
Try this

Start|Run
type
SCANREG /FIX
click OK - Windows will reboot

Then check for the existence of a WININIT.INI file, and
rename it if it's
there - have a look at it in Notepad, and paste the
contents in your reply.


--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post
messages to NG's

"Connolly" wrote in
message
...
I now have come full circle and now have the same trouble
I had for the reason I re-installed windows. When
starting windows I get an error message, "A previous
installation has pending work requiring a reboot. You
may
need to restart your computer to complete that
installation before Internet Explorer Setup. Setup will
now close"

I followed exactly the instructions found on
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/reinME.htm including
using IE6remove.zip as instructed.

The re-install of windows seemed normal and all was well
until I tried to install service pack 6. I could not
install it and found the wininit.ini file to be causing
problems including system restore to stop working.

I had this error message;

A previous installation has pending work requiring a
reboot. You need to
restart your computer to complete that installation
before
running
internet explorer setup. Setup will now close."

and used this procedure;

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309314


It worked up until the install where it seem to intall
but
at the end gave me an error that none of the components
have been installed???

In addition to the error message of "A pervious
installation has pending work..." appearing ever time I
start WinME I now get the additional error;

Error loading p2csocks_1014.dll The system cannot find
the
file specified.


-----Original Message-----
Did you uninstall IE6 before reinstalling WinME, if not
then you may be
left with problems as you will have what is called
version soup.
Have a look at the following sites to see if you can
sort
out your
problems.
Joan

Is this the error message :

Windows Update Setup

A previous program installation was never completed. You
need to restart
your computer to complete that installation before
running Internet
Explorer Setup. Setup will now close.

Error Message: A Previous Program Installation Was Never
Completed
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=221863

or was it this one :

A previous installation has pending work requiring a
reboot. You need to
restart your computer to complete that installation
before running
internet explorer setup. Setup will now close."

Error Message When You Try to Install Internet Explorer
6.0: A Previous
Installation Has Pending Work Requiring a Reboot
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309314


MowGreen [MVP]
*-343-* Never Forgotten
Look here if you want to do an over-the-top reinstall
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/reinME.htm

or here for a 'clean install'
http://www.aumha.org/win4/a/clean.htm

HTH

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)


Connolly wrote:
I recently reloaded WinME and can not re-install
windows
Service Pack 6. I have the resume install Icon on my
desktop and if I try to access it I get "A previous
installation has pending work requiring a reboot. You
meed to restart your computer to complete that
installation before running Internet Explorer Setup.
Setup
will now close" I can get rid of the error by
removing
the wininit.ini file from my system. By then resuming
Windows Update Setup, I get another error of "Setup
was
unable to download information about available
installation sites." I do not have a proxy server and
have a hard time believing that the windows sites are
not
available? What other problems may be causing this?


.



.

You got it, well done.
Joan


Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows)

Noel,

I ran Stinger and it came up with nothing. Although
CWShredder did seem to to find something. I have ad-
aware, Spybot, and AOL Spyware protection they have all
found nothing, and McAfee Virus check comes up clean.

After running CWShredder in safe mode I am still getting
the RUNDLL error, "Error loading p2esocks_1014.dll The
system cannot find the file specified. and this error msg
as well,
"A previous
installation has pending work requiring a reboot. You may
need to restart your computer to complete that
installation before Internet Explorer Setup. Setup will
now close"
Also Wininit.ini is always present after rebooting the
system even with file restore disabled. (not sure if this
is relevent?)
further suggestions?
(I am off to work now, will look at replies later, but
thanks for your help so far)

-----Original Message-----
You may have a virus/spyware hijack

download the Stinger from here and run it to make sure
that A-V-disabling
viruses are not present on your PC
http://download.nai.com/products/mca...rt/stinger.exe

- update your virus scanner and run a full system scan of
all files.

Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove
variants of the
CoolWebSearch hijacker.
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html

Use CWShredder, the removal tool:
http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip
http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...CWShredder.exe
http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip

download AdAware from www.lavasoftusa.com, install,
update, and run it to
remove spyware, adware,
and other such nasties from your system.

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post
messages to NG's

"Connolly" wrote in
message
...
Thanks,

SCANREG /FIX did not solve the problem.

I renamed the file and opened it in notepade. The
following is the content.

[Rename]
NUL=C:\WINDOWS\STARTM~1\PROGRAMS\MCAFEE.COM


-----Original Message-----
Connolly

You may have some registry corruption....
Try this

Start|Run
type
SCANREG /FIX
click OK - Windows will reboot

Then check for the existence of a WININIT.INI file, and
rename it if it's
there - have a look at it in Notepad, and paste the
contents in your reply.


--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post
messages to NG's

"Connolly" wrote
in
message
.. .
I now have come full circle and now have the same
trouble
I had for the reason I re-installed windows. When
starting windows I get an error message, "A previous
installation has pending work requiring a reboot. You
may
need to restart your computer to complete that
installation before Internet Explorer Setup. Setup
will
now close"

I followed exactly the instructions found on
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/reinME.htm
including
using IE6remove.zip as instructed.

The re-install of windows seemed normal and all was
well
until I tried to install service pack 6. I could not
install it and found the wininit.ini file to be
causing
problems including system restore to stop working.

I had this error message;

A previous installation has pending work requiring a
reboot. You need to
restart your computer to complete that installation
before
running
internet explorer setup. Setup will now close."

and used this procedure;

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309314


It worked up until the install where it seem to intall
but
at the end gave me an error that none of the
components
have been installed???

In addition to the error message of "A pervious
installation has pending work..." appearing ever time
I
start WinME I now get the additional error;

Error loading p2csocks_1014.dll The system cannot find
the
file specified.


-----Original Message-----
Did you uninstall IE6 before reinstalling WinME, if
not
then you may be
left with problems as you will have what is called
version soup.
Have a look at the following sites to see if you can
sort
out your
problems.
Joan

Is this the error message :

Windows Update Setup

A previous program installation was never completed.
You
need to restart
your computer to complete that installation before
running Internet
Explorer Setup. Setup will now close.

Error Message: A Previous Program Installation Was
Never
Completed
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=221863

or was it this one :

A previous installation has pending work requiring a
reboot. You need to
restart your computer to complete that installation
before running
internet explorer setup. Setup will now close."

Error Message When You Try to Install Internet
Explorer
6.0: A Previous
Installation Has Pending Work Requiring a Reboot
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309314


MowGreen [MVP]
*-343-* Never Forgotten
Look here if you want to do an over-the-top reinstall
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/reinME.htm

or here for a 'clean install'
http://www.aumha.org/win4/a/clean.htm

HTH

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)


Connolly wrote:
I recently reloaded WinME and can not re-install
windows
Service Pack 6. I have the resume install Icon on
my
desktop and if I try to access it I get "A previous
installation has pending work requiring a reboot.
You
meed to restart your computer to complete that
installation before running Internet Explorer Setup.
Setup
will now close" I can get rid of the error by
removing
the wininit.ini file from my system. By then
resuming
Windows Update Setup, I get another error of "Setup
was
unable to download information about available
installation sites." I do not have a proxy server
and
have a hard time believing that the windows sites
are
not
available? What other problems may be causing this?


.



.



.