I know XP is out the door in Apr 2014, I have had to reinstall Windows XP on some systems at work, because the Venders of certain software only works on XP and they have not updated there software. When running XP windows updates on a new system setup, it refuses to work now. I have read alot of forums, and tried I think everything. most of the error codes refer to SP3 issue. but I dont think its the case. its like the activex is not executing. Now, the systems that have been previously run, updates still work. Is there a manual way to get around this, is there a list of files which could be copied from a working system to the new system?