Can you try and just let it sit there over night and see if that does the
trick. If that doesn't work let me know.
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Ben B. [US]
"garyhughes36" <> wrote in message
news:3C30D10B-F090-49ED-BEB8-...
> Yes, this is the administrator.
> Yes, the Automatic Updates service is running, but since it hangs
> everything
> up at this same point. I have the option to automatic update turned off.
> Yes, I have and do register the dll's as you state, to allow me to restart
> a
> windows update. Without registering the dll's windows update just hangs.
> Once I do register the dll's, I can start windows update but it always
> stops
> at 326.00KB of the download of the first item to update.
> Hope this makes sense.
>
> Gary
>
> -------
> Ben B. [US]" wrote:
>
>> Are you running Windows Update on an administrator account? If you're not
>> you should be Check to see if the Automatic Updates service is still
>> running:
>> Click Start · Control Panel, then select Performance and Maintenance and
>> click System. Select the Automatic Updates tab and make sure that
>> Automatic
>> is selected and then click OK.
>>
>>
>> Now check to see if Automatic Updates is service is running:
>> Click Start · Run and type "services.msc" without the quotes and press
>> enter. The Services window should pop-up. Under the name column find
>> Automatic Updates. If it does not appear there skip over the remainder of
>> this paragraph, if it is double-click on it; the properties dialog should
>> open up. Make sure it says "Automatic" in the Startup type box and the
>> Service status says "Started".
>>
>> If you've made any changes to this point restart your computer and see if
>> Windows Update is working yet. If Windows Update continues to display
>> errors
>> continue on.
>>
>> Register the DLL files:
>> Click Start · Run and type "cmd" without the quotes and press enter. Type
>> in
>> the following and press return after each line:
>> REGSVR32 %windir%\system32\wuapi.dll
>> REGSVR32 %windir%\system32\wuaueng.dll
>> REGSVR32 %windir%\system32\atl.dll
>> REGSVR32 %windir%\system32\wucltui.dll
>> REGSVR32 %windir%\system32\wups.dll
>> Enter "exit" and press enter.
>>
>>
>>
>> Check and see if Windows Update is working, if Windows Update continues
>> not
>> to work please attach your WindowsUpdate.log file. To gather your
>> WindowsUpdate.log file select Start · Run, and then type "%windir%" and
>> press enter. The WindowsUpdate.log file will be located in this folder.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ben B. [US]
>>
>> "garyhughes36" <> wrote in message
>> news:39E4A248-A164-41B4-9FE6-...
>> > Windows XP Home SP2 - first started with Windows Update trying to
>> > download
>> > KB873339. Windows Update shows progress Downloading: 326.00 KB of
>> > 362.00KB.
>> > I found an earlier post for this same problem and followed the
>> > instructions
>> > to download the update manually. Then restarted Windows Update which
>> > has
>> > now
>> > gone on to the next Update, and stopped in the exact same spot
>> > Download:
>> > 326.00KB of 4XX.00KB. It looks like I have some sort of limit on file
>> > size
>> > or almost looks like I am out of space (plenty of free space). Manual
>> > update
>> > work fine but Windows Update has a limit somewhere in its process.
>> > Hope
>> > the
>> > solution to this issue can help many others....
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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