RE: Automatic Update Notification Icon Never Appears

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Thanks to all who replied so far. Apparently AUreset has been pulled by
CodePlex and replaced with AUcheck. Don't know if they are similar, but it
did not cure the problem. I am running SP1 and even purchased a replacement
disk from MS so I could reinstall. I did a in-place upgrade re-install last
night on a spare cloned drive and it did indeed fix the WU notification
issue. However, after the painful 2-1/2 hour re-install, several of my
applications did not work, some serial number keys were lost and some device
drivers did not get restored. I was warned that the Vista in-place upgrade
re-install is nowhere near as clean as the "repair" install was for Windows
XP. I still am using the drive with the original install, hoping to find
answers, but I may just have to bite the bullet and try to re-install some of
the failed applications and missing device drivers on my cloned "re-install"
drive.

"RonnieJP" wrote:

For the past few months, I no longer get the update notification icon in
my
system tray. WU is set to notify me automatically, but let me decide which
update to download and install. The wuausvc service is running fine and I've
tried re-registering all the Windows Update DLL files. Tried deleting the
Software Distribution folder from Windows/System32 in case of corruption (it
gets recreated by itself OK). Tried "clean boot" with no startup programs or
non-MS services running. Even manually downloaded the Windows Update
update 3.0, I can detect new available updates only if I start WU manually,
from the Start Menu or Control Panel. MS tech support has been unable to help
so far, only suggesting a complete repair install. That's like repairing engine
trouble by replacing the whole car! My OS is Vista Ultimate 32-bit. Can't
believe I'm the only user who's ever had this issue?
.

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