So I get home from college and what did my parents get me? They sit me down by their older model dell computer with xp on it. SP 2 if you need to know. I tried updating some of the stuff on it tonight (such as msn messenger) and i tried to download/install all the windows updates. Unfortunately, on both fronts i ran into problems. My guess is there's file problems somewhere, but both things kinda just told me there's an error and I can't install this. Any ideas of where I should start looking for a fix?
(please keep explanations simple...i don't understand much computer jargon
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