I have a laptop that dual boots  XP and linux. is getting a bit old and slow running XP these days and doesn’t often get used unless I’m away from home.

I used at my mother’s house the other day and thought I’d better run through the usual Windows update routine as I had a net connection and only a BT HomeHub between the world and me – update error 0xC800042D


 I gave up after several attempts but have just tried again at home with the same result. I couldn’t find much help in a quick read of the MS links provided, so I turned to google. Seems I am not alone and ’s quite a common error and soon sorted following advice given in several  links.

The latest updates seem to include the new browser chooser option, which I’ve applied but not seen as I shut down immediately after applying the patches. However I have the IE8 upgrade disabled as I use Firefox except for when I check for Windows Updates using IE7, wonder if that’s why failed.

Typical Windows user patches every 5 days – a related and interesting link I came across the other day.