Service pack 2 install problem

After that I walked away to help train someone and haven't tried a repair yet. Guess that's on my to do list this morning. If anything happens again I'll send you an email with steps and screen caps. Message 9 of SO I ran a repair Well isn't this peachy! Why does it seem that trying to export all my CUI customizations never works? It takes about 3 hours to get it all back I know it isn't Nicks fault but damn this really gets me mad.

Not blaming you Nick That would make me feel better. Preview file. Message 10 of That's exactly what happend to me after I ran a repair.

I'm doing a fresh install now. Message 11 of Same problem here. Went to install SP2 and it quit with an error: "A problem prevented the service pack from being installed. Contact your system administrator" "Error Code: " I am the system administrator and I have no idea what that means. Message 12 of Same issue here as described above.

Exactly the same. Message 13 of Error is a. NET error code. Try repairing. NET 2 first. Message 14 of It should id the cause of the failure. Message 15 of I just did a complete uninstall of Civil 3D Following this I manually deleted it from the registry and removed the folders left behind in windows explorer.

I then reinstalled it and when i checkled the product info, it still says SP2! Message 16 of On the Installation complete screen, select Close. In the search box, enter troubleshooter and then select Troubleshooting from the list of results. Under System and Security , select Fix problems with Windows Update and then follow the instructions. Windows 7 More Support for Windows 7 ended on January 14, We recommend you move to a Windows 11 PC to continue to receive security updates from Microsoft.

Need more help? Join the discussion. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. And the log file was already about 4 MB it was 3. I set the value to hexadecimal FFFF decimal as suggested and then reran the Service Pack 2 installation again.

Service Pack 2 Setup Error The system must be restarted before installing the Service Pack 2, to allow some prior file update operations to complete. These operations were previously scheduled by some other install or uninstall operation.

As is often the case with Microsoft products, the error message is not very clear. So what section is not present? At xp sp2 install error requested section was not found in the , I found a posting by someone who had corrected a similar problem installing XP SP2 by reregistering two DLL files, licdll. I looked in setupapi. I wasn't sure that reregistering the DLL files would help, but I tried it anyway.

When I entered the command regsvr Return code was 0x Entering the command, regsvr So I tried the installation of Service Pack 2 again.

But I got the same "The requested section was not present in the activation context" error message again. I next went through the steps listed at Service Pack Installation Checklist. I tried the "Do you have parasites? That scan found nothing. The system had 1. When I first tried to install SP 2, I had received warnings about disk space, so I had freed additional space to get to 1. Close any programs that might be using the file and try again.

That made me suspicious that spyware was still on the system, since spyware will often hide itself in folders or files it makes invisible in Windows Explorer and from a command prompt. And I would not expect any files or folders to be open in the user's Temp directory when I was logged into the Administrator account, not that user's account. I downloaded Sysinternal's RootkitRevealer utility and ran it.

I then searched to see if it might be a subdirectory within the user's temp directory and found it. In order to find out which process had the directory open I downloaded and installed Sysinternal's Process Explorer. I found that the cleanmgr. I had run Microsoft Windows Disk Cleanup utility earlier. It was taking an extremely long time to get through just the first phase of its analysis of what could be done to free disk space, so I canceled it.

But apparently the process remained running in the background.