John,

Can't help with the problem but SP 1 and the Vista update worked just fine
for me. Took foooooooorrrrrr evvvvver though to apply the updates.

I have a clean install of VS 2005 and Vista. I had problems upgrading with
both 2003 and 2005 installed.

Sorry,
Brian

"John" <jstraumann@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all:
>
> I downloaded the 2 VS 2005 updates as documented on the Microsoft web
> site,
> however when I try to install them I get a message:
>
> "This patch package could not be opened. Verify that the patch package
> exists and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to
> verify that this is a valid Windows Installer Package"
>
> Does anyone know how I can fix this?
>
> John.
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