Turn off Windows Updates
    Reboot
    Go the windowsupdate.microsoft.com and manually (custom) update 
the computer.
    Reboot
    To be sure, again, Go the windowsupdate.microsoft.com and manually ....
    Reboot
    Turn Windows Updates back on.



    Also if you're getting a "Generic Host Process" error (they seem 
related) then



http://wer.microsoft.com/responses/Response.aspx/1501/en-us/5.1.2600.2.00010100.2.0?SGD=c99b292a-8c42-48ee-92d3-67160c2e5a1c


http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A87B44B9-7A6A-49B6-BD89-AFAD4E049C48%20&displaylang=en