windows update install several times error kb2538242

All I could do was turn the pc off on the power button and restart it. The taskbar started flashing on and off, icons were missing from the desktop and an error box kept appearing saying windows explorer had to close. Was struggling with this ridiculous issue on a clean install of Windows 7 SP1 for several months, reading all forum posts and downloading all possible Microsoft. I did a system restore yesterday to see if that helped but although it said restore was successful, it still showed the last 3 days of updates in 'view installed updates'? However, as soon as the message saying the restore had been successful appeared, Download and install System Update Readiness tool for your OS. V2.0 (April 21, 2011): Rereleased bulletin to reoffer the updates to address a detection issue. Try to download it and to install it manually. The green bar is moving so its not 'frozen'. Wow - Microsoft must of figured out the problem, I have a new update KB973923 that is the same update but smaller, but this one installed correctly.

'Installed Updates' it says no updates have been installed on this computer! At the moment, windows update is showing 'downloading updates - 0%' and it has been like this for 6 hours now.

Its during this time that I also noticed that 'View installed updates' only shows updates that have installed the last 3 days and when I look in For the past few days the update KB2538243 has tried to download and install several times but keeps failing.

Windows update install several times error kb2538242