I followed the pathway you suggested and discovered that the office source
engine is set to manual. I could set it to automatic but your final sentence
"proceed at own risk" is a bit of a worry.

I have never had any problems installing updates before, why would it start
behaving in this fashion now? I have never even been into the Office Source
Engine area before so I can only assume it has been set on manual up to now
and the updates have been installing without a whimper.

Computers are like cars. I know how to turn them on and drive them but as
soon as something goes wrong I am lost and it is very frustrating.

"Jim Cone" wrote:

One thing you can try is ...

Go to Start | Run | Type services.msc | Search for office source engine
It should be set to automatic.

Proceed at your own risk!
--
Jim Cone
San Francisco, USA
http://www.realezsites.com/bus/primitivesoftware


"mozzie"

wrote in message
Why would a security update for excel 2003 continually fail to install??