Windows 10: How to skip the Office XP SP3 update in Windows Update

Dear Friends,


Greetings!


Something interesting happens to one of the machines in my office.


The machine comes with Windows 10 Home, and I installed Office XP on it.
Office XP works fine. Windows 10 works fine.


However, after some days, the Windows Update detected Office XP, and would like to install Office XP SP3 for it. Here comes the fun.


The Office XP SP3 could not be downloaded. Thus, there remains an error, showing that Office XP SP3 could not be downloaded.

But as long as the Office XP SP3 is not installed, Windows Update is stuck at this stage, and can't go on to detecting or installing new updates.


Anyone knows how to skip such update, or any work around to get the Office XP SP3 update installed?


Thanks in advance.

:)

 

Windows XP SP3: Windows Update fix

Fix? What's that? Windows XP updated to SP3 fine on my laptop without anything extra.

 

Windows XP SP3: Windows Update fix

no no no
after a fresh install, one of the first things you get from windows update is SP3, then you go back to windows update after you install SP3 and see there are more updates, so you try to install them but it just doesn't work. period. This batch file fixes hat. If you updated before SP3 came out on windows update you're fine.

 

Windows XP SP3: Windows Update fix

Ah.
Probably the issue I had with windows media format runtime security update for WMP 9.5 & 11 downloading but not installing.

I fixed it by typing something into the command prompt which I think reset the update.