Re: problem not being able to stop download

Inkie,

It's *probably* downloading SP2 ... however, since it uses BITS it
should not be taking up your bandwidth. What happens when you shut
the system down ... does it resume downloading on startup ?
Are you on AOL ?

MowGreen [MVP]
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Inkie wrote:

> The update icon is on my taskbar dowloading something, i dunno what its
> dowloading or how big it is but i cant pause or stop it. Left or right
> clicking it doesnt do anything. Its taking ages to download whatever it is
> and it got to 66% eventually and has now gone back to 33%. It has stayed on
> 33% for hours but its taking up my internet connection. If anyone could tell
> me how to stop it that would be great thankyou.

Inkie wrote:

> Im not using AOL im on freeserve and everytime i connect to the internet it
> continues downloading and always stays on 33% even after i restart the
> computer. Will try a full virus scan see if thats the problem but dont think
> it is. And it isnt downloading SP2 because it would have downloaded by now or
> at least made some progress. And i checked my update history and it doesnt
> show any downloads in progress.
Hi

You could clean out the Download folder (WU5's temporary download
folder) located here and see if that helps:

%windir%\SoftwareDistribution\

(%windir% is typically C:\Windows)

You can use the procedure described here:
http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.co...cleid=11&ln=en

If you still end up with the same problem, try to delete the DataStore
folder mentioned in the link above, as well as the Download folder.

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


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