RE: Prompted to download; no idea what status is.

I've had the same problem. Looking back through the posts here it seems
quite a few people have experienced it. The only solution at the moment
seems to be to download the administrators version from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en


"Brent" wrote:

> Pretty bizarre that we need to download this, however, once I clicked
> "download" I have not seen anything telling me how far its come along. This
> started yesterday morning at 9:00am.
>
> I finally searched and found the file in
> C:/WINDOWS/SoftwareDistribution/Downloads.
>
> Want to know how big the file was so far, in more than 30 hours of
> downloading? 38kb. LOL
>
> Obviously it's not fully functional yet.
>
> Anyone else have similar problems?

That is not a problem, it is by design, #7 on this link:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/xpsp2.htm

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


"Gavin" <> wrote in message
news:F96627DC-6393-44BE-9346-...
> I've had the same problem. Looking back through the posts here it
> seems
> quite a few people have experienced it. The only solution at the
> moment
> seems to be to download the administrators version from
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
>
>
> "Brent" wrote:
>
>> Pretty bizarre that we need to download this, however, once I
>> clicked
>> "download" I have not seen anything telling me how far its come
>> along. This
>> started yesterday morning at 9:00am.
>>
>> I finally searched and found the file in
>> C:/WINDOWS/SoftwareDistribution/Downloads.
>>
>> Want to know how big the file was so far, in more than 30 hours of
>> downloading? 38kb. LOL
>>
>> Obviously it's not fully functional yet.
>>
>> Anyone else have similar problems?

Hmmm...didn't Microsoft once try to convince us that a particular bug was a
*feature*? ROFL

"Deja vu, all over again." --Yogi Berra


"Jupiter Jones [MVP]" wrote:
> That is not a problem, it is by design, #7 on this link:
> http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/xpsp2.htm