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