Microsoft updates will not install

Is it absolutely necessary to install this update (XP Service Pack 3)? I can't load it on my computer either and I can't delete the update icon. I get nervous downloading off the internet. ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

I don't know what the updates are most of them are security updates and hot fixes and driver updates. there are 129 updates that downloaded but something is stopping them from being installed on my computer and i have no idea what. i have never had this problem before the last time i got updates everything went like its supposed to download and install ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

I use IE7 when I go to Microsoft to get the updates. I'm not having any trouble downloading the updates there is something stopping them from being installed ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

I can't add service pack 3 to my computer. when i do it locks down my computer it has something to do with my processor being changed from Intel to AMD by the computer company I removed the drivers and installed service pack 3 it didn't lock it down but then the updates started adding vista programs on my computer. Microsoft told me to remove service pack 3. that I really didn't need it anyway its not much different than service pack 2 and it slows your computer down.... The windows update tries to install it every time i just click no do not install. ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

I get an error message when i clink on the link you provided it says "An unknown application error occurred. Please try again in a few minutes." ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

Its still saying the same thing ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

And its still saying the same thing. are you sure you got the url right? ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

Again, its still giving me the same error message ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

I'm still getting that error message when I click on that link ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

I'm still getting that error message when I click on that link
Please Give me another link that works, thank you ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

I guess I'm not going to get any help with this. I guess I have been put on ignore :^( ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

this link the last one you gave me a few days ago https://support.microsoft.com/oas/def...
I have been to my computers web support site I have chatted with them talked to them on the phone the went step by step on how to uninstall the intel drivers and they took me to microsoft to download something and a driver then we loded SP3 and my computer kept restarting over and over so we went into safe mode and removed it, thats when compaq support called Microsoft and we went throught a few steps and reloaded SP3 and when my computer restarted it crashed. so microsoft did a remote access into my computer and they got it loaded and my computer restarted fine but when it got updates it added Vista updates only causing my computer to crash again so they said lets just remove it and leave it off. and he said that service pack 3 wasn't much diffrent than service pack 2 I don't really need it and it slows the operating system down, and microsoft wasn't going to do anything about it because Vista has already been relesed and they want people to update to vista. so he removed it and all the stuff he added and the vista updates that were installed on my computer. then he ran a update just to make sure it wasn't going to add Vista updates and it only added xp updates. this was about three weeks ago then about a week and half it started doing this not installing the updates it downloads them but won't install them i get a pop-up saying the updates were not installed do to the settings on your computer, but everything is set to auto updates download and install automatically. so dose this make it any clearer? also when it tells me the updates weren't installed it gives me around ten links and they all talk about the blue screen error. and I have no idea what its talking about blue screen error? but nothing addresses my problem I'm having. ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

I don't have the case number anymore I was given one but that was like three weeks ago and I thought everything was going fine and I didn't think I would need it anymore, so I got rid of it. ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

I am having the same problem on my desktop and laptop, i install sp3, nothing, installed office 2003 sp3 nothing, i made sure the userdata persistance was enabled in internet exporer options like microsoft said, nothing, i uninstalled the adobe flash player like they say which i dont see what that has to do with it, nothing, it just keeps saying "The updates failed to install because there is something on your computer that is not allowing the updates to be install". Is Microsoft no longer supporting xp with updates to force every one to use vista which is not compatible with a lot of software that my business have to use. please help ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

I can't find the "contact me" link on that web page, Sorry ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

I don't know what happened, but today I was updating one of my blogs and my computer restarted by its self. When it came back on it went to windows update and started downloading and installed all the updates that wouldn't install before. there was like 250 to 300 updates, it took 2 hours and 12 minutes. Then the computer restarted by its self again and went to my desktop. I find this very strange. But it failed to install service pack 3 it said it wasn't compatible with my operating system's setup. what ever that means? ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

I've tried that before. After I install service pack 3 the computer keeps restarting over and over and won't stop restarting. I have to catch the compaq screen and its very hard because it just flashes for only a second, and then I go in safe mode and remove it. Then the computer starts up like its supposed to. ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )