Re: Windows update stops at preparing to download or on downloading sc

From: JosephKK (joseph2k_at_nospam.lanset.com)
Date: 10/14/04 

Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:22:25 -0700

Joe wrote:

> Robert,
> Thanks for the reply. I'll try to describe this one more
> time. I have done so several times in this forum which is
> why I've pretty much given up. Yes, I do have WU V5 but it
> was installed by WU V4 just before SP2 became available.
> In fact, I had to install SP2 from CD because of WU V5
> being useless. So as far as I'm concerned WU V5 is the
> problem. I have read several similar posts on this forum
> but nobody to my knowledge has given a successful
> solution. I've looked at WindowsUpdate log but it pretty
> much just stops at the download like WU V5 does. That's
> what makes this difficult. I don't get an error.
> The "downloading and installing" window just sits there
> when I select a update to install. I have to end task then
> in order to even get a list of updates again, I first have
> to reboot with AU stopped and manual, delete the
> SoftwareDistribution folder, then set AU back to automatic
> and reboot again. I really don't have time for this (not
> many people do). I really wished I would get an error code
> or something to go on here.
> Thanks again,
> Joe

The only thing was posted here that made it better was to rewind from WU5
back to WU4.

JosephKK

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