Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (KB970892) could not be installed

Last Updated on Monday, 16 August 2010 05:26 Written by DarkBlak Monday, 22 February 2010 01:01

You are having trouble installing Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (KB970892).

To resolve this issue, do the following:

1. Go to Run, type regedit, and click ok, or press Enter.

2. In Regedit, go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\Setup]
(Note that if you have multiple instances of MSSQL installed, the reg key might be different for you)

3. find the “Resume” REG_DWORD, and change its decimal value from 1, to 0.

4. Install the update, and restart the machine.

5. Run Windows Update again.