no download, no installation, no error codes

This has been driving me nuts! For ages I have been trying to download and
install the "priority" updates. Every time I try, they fail. I review my
updates, and there are no failures there, so I can't even check the error
codes as there are none reported.
I used the Baseline Security Analyzer 2.0.1 to manually download and install
the .NET 1.1 and 2.0 updates and some other "critical" windows updates, but
the other stuff (14 updates) just WILL NOT HAPPEN using the standard methods,
and some not so standard methods.
I can find no reasons for these failures.
One thing does strike me though. Even after selecting ALL available updates,
the download page says that the total size of the updates is 0kb. Obviously
this is impossible.
I have made note in other posts that this problem exists, and is obviously a
Microsoft problem, but nothing seems to have been done about this.
I have also noted the huge amount of complaints scattered about the forums
concerning this problem, and still Microsoft does nothing.
I would dearly love to know when the techs that get paid huge salaries by
the richest man in the world are going to get out of the playroom and do some
work resolving this issue.
Now would be nice!

Start a free Windows Update support incident request:
https://support.microsoft.com/oas/de...spx?gprid=6527
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org

sci-fi-guy wrote:
> This has been driving me nuts! For ages I have been trying to download and
> install the "priority" updates. Every time I try, they fail. I review my
> updates, and there are no failures there, so I can't even check the error
> codes as there are none reported.
> I used the Baseline Security Analyzer 2.0.1 to manually download and
> install
> the .NET 1.1 and 2.0 updates and some other "critical" windows updates,
> but
> the other stuff (14 updates) just WILL NOT HAPPEN using the standard
> methods, and some not so standard methods.
> I can find no reasons for these failures.
> One thing does strike me though. Even after selecting ALL available
> updates,
> the download page says that the total size of the updates is 0kb.
> Obviously
> this is impossible.
> I have made note in other posts that this problem exists, and is obviously
> a
> Microsoft problem, but nothing seems to have been done about this.
> I have also noted the huge amount of complaints scattered about the forums
> concerning this problem, and still Microsoft does nothing.
> I would dearly love to know when the techs that get paid huge salaries by
> the richest man in the world are going to get out of the playroom and do
> some work resolving this issue.
> Now would be nice!

Having delved deeper into this problem, I have noticed something very strange
indeed. All the updates I want are actually downloaded! They are sitting on
my harddrive, in my windows/$hf_mig$ folder. They just refuse to install. I
tried one or two manually, and they report that they are unable to install
because they are missing the appropriate .inf files. Any further guidance on
this would be vastly appreciated.

And "PA Bear", if I get no joy from this revelation, I shall take your
advice. Thank you for your rapid response.

"PA Bear" wrote:

> Start a free Windows Update support incident request:
> https://support.microsoft.com/oas/de...spx?gprid=6527
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
> AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org
>
> sci-fi-guy wrote:
> > This has been driving me nuts! For ages I have been trying to download and
> > install the "priority" updates. Every time I try, they fail. I review my
> > updates, and there are no failures there, so I can't even check the error
> > codes as there are none reported.
> > I used the Baseline Security Analyzer 2.0.1 to manually download and
> > install
> > the .NET 1.1 and 2.0 updates and some other "critical" windows updates,
> > but
> > the other stuff (14 updates) just WILL NOT HAPPEN using the standard
> > methods, and some not so standard methods.
> > I can find no reasons for these failures.
> > One thing does strike me though. Even after selecting ALL available
> > updates,
> > the download page says that the total size of the updates is 0kb.
> > Obviously
> > this is impossible.
> > I have made note in other posts that this problem exists, and is obviously
> > a
> > Microsoft problem, but nothing seems to have been done about this.
> > I have also noted the huge amount of complaints scattered about the forums
> > concerning this problem, and still Microsoft does nothing.
> > I would dearly love to know when the techs that get paid huge salaries by
> > the richest man in the world are going to get out of the playroom and do
> > some work resolving this issue.
> > Now would be nice!
>
>

We'd need to know your Windows version (among other things) before anyone
here could assist you. And if by any chance you recently reinstalled
Windows, tell us about that, too.
--
~PA Bear

sci-fi-guy wrote:
> Having delved deeper into this problem, I have noticed something very
> strange indeed. All the updates I want are actually downloaded! They are
> sitting on my harddrive, in my windows/$hf_mig$ folder. They just refuse
> to
> install. I tried one or two manually, and they report that they are unable
> to install because they are missing the appropriate .inf files. Any
> further
> guidance on this would be vastly appreciated.
>
> And "PA Bear", if I get no joy from this revelation, I shall take your
> advice. Thank you for your rapid response.
>
> "PA Bear" wrote:
>
>> Start a free Windows Update support incident request:
>> https://support.microsoft.com/oas/de...spx?gprid=6527
>> --
>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
>> MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
>> AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org
>>
>> sci-fi-guy wrote:
>>> This has been driving me nuts! For ages I have been trying to download
>>> and
>>> install the "priority" updates. Every time I try, they fail. I review my
>>> updates, and there are no failures there, so I can't even check the
>>> error
>>> codes as there are none reported.
>>> I used the Baseline Security Analyzer 2.0.1 to manually download and
>>> install
>>> the .NET 1.1 and 2.0 updates and some other "critical" windows updates,
>>> but
>>> the other stuff (14 updates) just WILL NOT HAPPEN using the standard
>>> methods, and some not so standard methods.
>>> I can find no reasons for these failures.
>>> One thing does strike me though. Even after selecting ALL available
>>> updates,
>>> the download page says that the total size of the updates is 0kb.
>>> Obviously
>>> this is impossible.
>>> I have made note in other posts that this problem exists, and is
>>> obviously
>>> a
>>> Microsoft problem, but nothing seems to have been done about this.
>>> I have also noted the huge amount of complaints scattered about the
>>> forums
>>> concerning this problem, and still Microsoft does nothing.
>>> I would dearly love to know when the techs that get paid huge salaries
>>> by
>>> the richest man in the world are going to get out of the playroom and do
>>> some work resolving this issue.
>>> Now would be nice!