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I have a totally legitimate copy (activated, of course) of

Vista-Ultimate. Actually, I'm helping someone else. My problem,

in a nutshell is that the silly OS will not do auto update.

Neither will defender.



There is an AV (Avast).

Updates to Avast function normally via ADSL.



Win updates, at the moment, is set to automatic in

a forlorn attempt to get at least something working.

I can see things trying to access a site but nothing

actually happens except a pretty green activity panel block.



Now, even though I am not a great fan of Vista ... where do I look?


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Hi,



Do you have a third party firewall installed?



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Best of Luck,



Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

mvp.support.microsoft.com/" >mvp.support.microsoft.com/

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

My thoughts rick-mvp.blogspot.com" >rick-mvp.blogspot.com



"Oxylot" <oxylot@lostbits.com>wrote in message

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yes its downloading.. I know this is bad.. but vista has no good indicator

of the progress of the downloading of updates....



I would suggest you install a network monitoring program

like the free "netmeter" (google it) to see if you have network activity







"Oxylot" <oxylot@lostbits.com>wrote in message



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On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 21:06:55 -0500, "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org>

wrote:



Thanks and Nope.

I'll check out T's suggestion.

It's quite possible that there is so much data

to be downloaded that the user should have just

let the process finish by itself. I only took

it "on trust" that nothing "ever happens". It

certainly didn't appear to be happening but a

NetMeter will have been installed so we'll soon

know -)

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when the automatic updateing stoped working in vista.after two days i found a

link..it took me to where the updater,updater.i guess thats what you call

it.i manually downloaded this and manually..and clicked off of everything and

went back to the updater and started it and it worked fine..maybe some one

else on here.can explain ..what the thing is and where to find it.it solved

my problem..



"Oxylot" wrote:

Hi,



You can always look at the windowsupdate.log file to see if there are any

download/install errors. If so, there is free support for updates here:

support.microsoft.com/ph/6527" >support.microsoft.com/ph/6527



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Best of Luck,



Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

mvp.support.microsoft.com/" >mvp.support.microsoft.com/

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

My thoughts rick-mvp.blogspot.com" >rick-mvp.blogspot.com



"Oxylot" <oxylot@lostbits.com>wrote in message

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he needs to manually,,down load the updater.like it was never installed.i got

to it by a link.i dont know how to tell him to get to it..after i reinstalled

the updater manually..it started automatically instaling updates again..it

fixed the problem for me



"Rick Rogers" wrote:

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:21:08 +1100, Oxylot <oxylot@lostbits.com>

wrote:



Post test. Posted a reply before (thank you's)

but didn't find it echoed. This is a followup

testing. News agent said post was successful.

We'll see. Go figure

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