"Mongoose2" wrote in message

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Robert,

I had already searched for KB943729.log and was unable to find it. Where
does Vista store these files. They are not in the Windows directory as they
had been in XP.


Perhaps it is still there but marked so that you don't see it as easily?
Or perhaps it is now in a subdirectory? Or perhaps it is named differently?
E.g. if you are using a command window, I would try:

cd /d %windir%
and
dir/a/s *943729*


BTW did you try my other suggestion for finding all possible files
written while the update was running? Such a search would find
this particular log file too.

Also, a way of supplementing any diagnostics that you do come up with
is to run ProcMon to capture a trace of registry and file accesses that
the update makes. Hence you get, for example, a list of all the writes
that were done to update the install log plus whatever registry and file
activity preceded them. From those you can infer which line in the log
was being written and perhaps what influenced the writing of it.


Good luck

Robert
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"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:


If you're not sure of the name of the appropriate diagnostic
use the codes (in both the raw hex and their decimal representations)
to search for context in *all* files which were changed during the update
attempt. E.g. search your harddrive(s) for all files which changed
on the day of the update and then sort them by the Date Modified.