MS - What's wrong w/ Automatic Updates? Many users having problem

1. When I visit MS Updates, IE7 "hangs" @ Checking for updates...
2. The above was fixed by downloading the "Access Denial" update

However, the following problems persist:

3. When the problems with Automatic Updates started, it disabled my audio
mixer
4. It also causes the Updates icon to intermittently flash, but it quickly
disappears and won't permit additional installation of updates
5. It also causes problems with the taskbar; the taskbar changes from
Windows XP blue to Classic Windows white

Something has happened to Windows updates...and it is causing a lot of
bizarre problems with people's PCs. From searching the internet and MS
technical boards and forums it is obvious this is a pandemic problem!

Instead of directing people to a whole bunch of irrelevant MS pages, what is
MS doing to redress this specific issue??!!!!

As you've learned by now...

First, install this fix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927891

Now install the newly released 'standalone' version of Windows Update Agent
3.0, v7.0.6000.374, for 32 bit machines (*not* Vista or any x64 version of
Windows!):
http://download.windowsupdate.com/v7...gent30-x86.exe

The MS update team believes that this solves all three svchost problems that
folks have been experiencing. See
http://blogs.technet.com/wsus/archiv...update-on.aspx

Also see
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/blog...showentry=1071
(First try the steps posted May 4th at the beginning of the article.)

Workaround: Change the default from Microsoft Update to Windows Update: Go
to Microsoft Update > Click on Change Settings in left pane > Scroll to
bottom of page > To Stop Using Microsoft Update > Disable Microsoft Update
software and let me use Windows Update only (check). cf.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/901037

With Windows Update as your default, you will need to check in at Office
Update to keep your Office applications fully patched:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/do...incatalog.aspx
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org

Computer_User wrote:
> 1. When I visit MS Updates, IE7 "hangs" @ Checking for updates...
> 2. The above was fixed by downloading the "Access Denial" update
>
> However, the following problems persist:
>
> 3. When the problems with Automatic Updates started, it disabled my audio
> mixer
> 4. It also causes the Updates icon to intermittently flash, but it
> quickly
> disappears and won't permit additional installation of updates
> 5. It also causes problems with the taskbar; the taskbar changes from
> Windows XP blue to Classic Windows white
>
> Something has happened to Windows updates...and it is causing a lot of
> bizarre problems with people's PCs. From searching the internet and MS
> technical boards and forums it is obvious this is a pandemic problem!
>
> Instead of directing people to a whole bunch of irrelevant MS pages, what
> is
> MS doing to redress this specific issue??!!!!