icon on system tray says downloading 0%

the little icon down on the system tray says downloading 0%. can anyone tell
me what it means.

Something (update) is downloading, however slowly, from the web - could be
SP2 or any of your software programs that have auto-update features.
Depending on your connection it can take a few minutes/hours/days.

--
Peter.
Toronto, Canada.
Windows XP Home SP2.
P4 Dual HT @ 3.0ghz, 160gb HD, 1.0gb DDR.
"gray" <> wrote in message
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> the little icon down on the system tray says downloading 0%. can anyone
> tell
> me what it means.

I'm having the same problem, the updater icon has been in the system tray for
weeks (possibly boardering on more than a month), and it still displays 0%.
Now, my connection is from Shaw Highspeed Cable. While I admit that between
them, and the modem, my connection is not always optimal, but it is at most
times better than 56Kbps. At the speeds that I get, this update would have
filled both my 40 GB hard drives by now. It's just that the icon refuses to
go away.


"Peter" wrote:

> Something (update) is downloading, however slowly, from the web - could be
> SP2 or any of your software programs that have auto-update features.
> Depending on your connection it can take a few minutes/hours/days.

Robert Carriere wrote:

> I'm having the same problem, the updater icon has been in the system tray for
> weeks (possibly boardering on more than a month), and it still displays 0%.
> Now, my connection is from Shaw Highspeed Cable. While I admit that between
> them, and the modem, my connection is not always optimal, but it is at most
> times better than 56Kbps. At the speeds that I get, this update would have
> filled both my 40 GB hard drives by now. It's just that the icon refuses to
> go away.
Hi

The steps below may help, or they may not...


In Control Panel/Automatic Updates, turn AU off if it is on, do a
reboot, and then turn AU on again and see if that helps.

If that doesn't help (or AU was off), try this:

Clean out the Download folder (WU5's temporary download folder)
located here:

%windir%\SoftwareDistribution\

(%windir% is typically C:\Windows)

You can use the procedure described here:

http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.co...cleid=11&ln=en

You might need to delete the DataStore folder mentioned in the link
above, as well as the EventCache folder.

Note that a side effect of deleting the DataStore folder is that you
lose your WU v5 History listing (not critical).


If the problem repeat itself still, try the steps here as well:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...tngp13.phx.gbl


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torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
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