NEED HELP! Windows update and system restore

[mgtuba]

I recently completely updated my computer online with Microsoft update 10 critical updates, 12 recommended updates and 2 driver updates. When I updated the driver to the integrated sound on the motherboard via Microsoft Update my sound was awful. I did a system restore and that fixed the problem BUT when I tried to re-install the critical updates and recommended updates after successful installation prior to my system restore, I get the following message from Microsoft Live Update.....

No Updates Were Installed

The following items failed to install. To try installing them again, click Review and install updates, and then click Install Now again.

Q817287: Critical Update (Catalog Database Corruption in Microsoft Windows)
Q329441: Critical Update
814033: Critical Update
810833: Security Update (Windows XP)
810577: Security Update
811630: Critical Update (Windows XP)
329170: Security Update
331953: Security Update (Windows XP)
811493: Security Update (Windows XP
[B]

I did notice that when I redownloaded the updates the near 11MB of updates from Microsoft downloaded really quickly-(about 10 sec....)

[reboot]

Go into Add/Remove programs, uninstall any updates/hotfixes you want to get again.
Only get driver updates if absolutely needed.
If you get one, and it doesn't work, just do a roll back on the driver, no need to do system restore.
If you go into device mangler, choose the device, right click, properties, and select the driver tab, you can go back to the previous driver.

P.S. Welcome to PCMech!

[Confused]

You might go into Windows and uninstall the questionable updates. Start, right click My Computer, open C or drive where Windows is if different than C, open Windows folder, run uninstall on the problem downloads, delete the entries in Windows folder after uninstall, delete WUTemp folder.

Try downloading again. Maybe try one at a time for couple of them to see if it is now working.
Chas