Windows 10: Office XP Service Pack 3 update for Windows 10??

UPDATE: I know this is old but it does directly relate. Please see my latest post on this in post #7.

My current laptop was purchased new last October, loaded with 8.1. I upgraded to 10 on the first day of its release, and ever since then I've been getting notifications for Office XP Service Pack 3. It has failed each time I try it. Windows suggests doing a web search for "Office XP Service Pack 3 - Error 0x80096004" for possible help, and I do find some results that MIGHT be helpful. But I can't understand why Windows 10 is trying to install an XP update on a machine that has never has XP on it.

Has anyone come across this issue?

:)

 

Windows 10 update error 0x80096004

What I was thinking Look at this failed update Office XP Service Pack 3
doesn't it look a lot like

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Seeing that we are not using
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Couldn't that be the cause of getting the failed update?

Terry

 

Latest update (March 2016) keeps trying to update Office XP onto Office 2016 on Windows 10

Why is the latest update (13 March 2016) trying to update Office XP on on a new PC with Office 2016 on Windows 10?

"Office XP Service Pack 3 - Error 0x80096004"

 

yes, same damned situation with my two Lenovo laptops now running Windows 10,
and that idiotic error message about unable to install an update about office XP service pak3.
got the same-o response when my lp's ran 8.1.

Microsoft is off on this one and needs to do something about it!!!

 

Worked for me by downloading for Windows 10 the "Show or hide updates" troubleshooter package.
Office XP Service Pack 3 - Error 0x80096004 has disapeared.

Je suis "happy"

Good luck
Hubert
France

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3073930

 

That was a naming convention 'screw-up' of Microsoft with the naming of Windows XP and Office XP, tried to tie them together. If you have ANY portion of Office XP on your computer that can be identified as part of Office XP/2002 such as PowerPoint Viewer, Word Viewer, Excel Viewer, etc., it probably is picking it up and offering that update.

 

" I have a clean install of Windows 10 and XP Service Pack 3 is trying so much and failing to install that I have also reached my data usage limit . Is this needed and if not , how can I stop this download 50 times in one day.

 

Hi, see this thread on the same page which should stop such attempts to update.
updates - Windows 10 Forums
However, if you want to use that feature, you may need to find any part of Office (e.g. a trial that you installed...?) that remains that is triggering that and remove it. E.g. and Office clean up or manual uninstall tool, or Revo Uninstaller if you can find any remaining exe file related to Office.

 

Checking in to see if there's any news about this issue. A couple weeks ago I reinstalled Win10, a total refresh - wiped all files and everything - and updated right through to the Fall Creators update. And today the Office XP Service Pack 3 update tried to download/install. It failed of course, but apparently I will now continue to be nagged ad haunted by this absolutely ludicrous and unnecessary update!

Does anyone know if this has been resolved somewhere so I can get the fix?

 

settings
update and security
advanced options
uncheck "give me updates for other MS products when i update windows"

 

That's a good option, except that I do want updates for other MS products. Just not anything for XP, which this machine has never seen one byte of.

 

Hi there

Some people for better or worse are trying to keep XP still alive

You might like to have a look at this link

Welcome to Windows XP Service Pack 4 - RyanVM.net Discussion Board

I'd still though if using XP run it as a Virtual machine

Cheers
jimbo

 

Windows 10 crashing is keeping Windows XP alive.

Thank god XP still runs. I have been using XP to fix Windows 10!

Did you know Windows Update sets monitors to resolutions they can not possibly achieve?
Windows XP on the other hand sets monitors to a default resolution that is guaranteed to work!

Did you know that running simultaneous updates by Windows Update and various 3rd Party Updater's trashes 10 big time.
Windows XP allowed me to run updates at the end of the month, sequentially when necessary.

I would never run multi-simultaneous-installations by choice, that is just plain stupid?
Auto Update - a truly great idea!

Windows 10 runs updates hourly.

I don't think its working so its keeps trying over and over again, that makes simultaneous updates a likely occurrence.
I have been trying to manually install the updates, but its hard to find out how to do that.
I use Event Viewer a lot, unfortunately.

I think that Windows Updater may be in error concerning the Office XP Service Pack 3 update.

1) I do not have Windows Office.
2) Word 2002 needs the correct Office XP Service Pack 3 version?

I could manually install Office XP Service Pack 3 for Word 2002 if I could find it.

 

Office XP SP3 English - SoftPedia [57.5MB download - I downloaded it just to make sure their link worked and it all seems to be in order]

By the way, you do have [part of] Office XP - Word XP [Word 2002] is part of it.

Denis

 

I just figured out why Windows Updater is aborting, its trying to download an update that no longer exists from the servers!

That Windows 10 1709 release broke 10; which forced me to buy a new power supply for the Windows XP computer; I know that I am stupid for fixing XP, but I needed a working computer to research the problem and sometimes you have to go with whats operational.

Windows 10 has been getting more and more stable and running better, especially after the Windows 10 Pro version Version 1709 (OS Build 16299.248) release. I was very pleased MS removed the VRAM restriction from DX9.

Windows Updater actually detected a problem that had been randomly crashing my Window 10 applications.

Windows Updater actually reported that the Intel Watchdog Timer Drivers were not properly installed and re-installed them. This matched the Event Viewer "Watch Dog Timer Error" messages at the time of the crashes.

I will check out the update. Thanks.