A soulution to the Windows Update that won't download and install.

Ooookaaaayyyy, so everybody has a problem with the Windows Updates that won't
download and install. I found the trick to this. Here's the trick: Down in
your task bar near the clock are all of your icons. Right click on each one
of the one at a time and a menu will pop up, select "Close" or "Exit" until
you see no more of these icons except the speaker icon. Those icons are
programs that runs in the back ground. Make sure that they are all closed
out, then try logging into Windows Updates again. They should download and
install normally like they should be. This is most common with Windows 2000
Professional with Service Pack 4 installed. Any of you having the same or
simliar problems with other Windows versions, please read the instructions
above and hopefully it will work for you. Good luck and I hope it works a
miracle for you.
FYI: I have been a computer tech for a long time and I have been successful
in solving such strange behaviors in computers.

well, only tried that in the first ten hours of over a hundred hours
debug...still not fixed.

ms doesn't seem to care, though thousands have same issue.


"powhammer2" <> wrote in message
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> Ooookaaaayyyy, so everybody has a problem with the Windows Updates that
> won't
> download and install. I found the trick to this. Here's the trick: Down in
> your task bar near the clock are all of your icons. Right click on each
> one
> of the one at a time and a menu will pop up, select "Close" or "Exit"
> until
> you see no more of these icons except the speaker icon. Those icons are
> programs that runs in the back ground. Make sure that they are all closed
> out, then try logging into Windows Updates again. They should download and
> install normally like they should be. This is most common with Windows
> 2000
> Professional with Service Pack 4 installed. Any of you having the same or
> simliar problems with other Windows versions, please read the instructions
> above and hopefully it will work for you. Good luck and I hope it works a
> miracle for you.
> FYI: I have been a computer tech for a long time and I have been
> successful
> in solving such strange behaviors in computers.

Thanks soo much for the insight. It worked for my Windows2000 Pro SP 4.
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Thanks, everyone, for easy sharing of a wealth of info!


"powhammer2" wrote:

> Ooookaaaayyyy, so everybody has a problem with the Windows Updates that won't
> download and install. I found the trick to this. Here's the trick: Down in
> your task bar near the clock are all of your icons. Right click on each one
> of the one at a time and a menu will pop up, select "Close" or "Exit" until
> you see no more of these icons except the speaker icon. Those icons are
> programs that runs in the back ground. Make sure that they are all closed
> out, then try logging into Windows Updates again. They should download and
> install normally like they should be. This is most common with Windows 2000
> Professional with Service Pack 4 installed. Any of you having the same or
> simliar problems with other Windows versions, please read the instructions
> above and hopefully it will work for you. Good luck and I hope it works a
> miracle for you.
> FYI: I have been a computer tech for a long time and I have been successful
> in solving such strange behaviors in computers.