Update icon never leaves

I'm not totally sure that it downloaded any updates, but it did ask for me to
reboot. I reboot and the icon is still in the system tray. It will pop up
and say that the computer has not been restarted since updates were
installed. I have rebooted numerous times and cannot seem to find the
problem. I can't get any other updates due to this problem. When trying
manually Microsoft.com informs me to reboot.

Any help would be so greatly appreciated,
Thanks.

Justin Tungs wrote:

> I'm not totally sure that it downloaded any updates, but it did ask for me to
> reboot. I reboot and the icon is still in the system tray. It will pop up
> and say that the computer has not been restarted since updates were
> installed. I have rebooted numerous times and cannot seem to find the
> problem. I can't get any other updates due to this problem. When trying
> manually Microsoft.com informs me to reboot.
>
> Any help would be so greatly appreciated,
> Thanks.
Hi

If you are running Windows XP:


Rename (or just delete) the SoftwareDistribution folder and
see if it helps.

You can use the procedure described here:

http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.co...cleid=21&ln=en

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

(later on, you can just delete the renamed SoftwareDistribution
folder)


Instead of following the procedure above to rename the
SoftwareDistribution folder, you can delete it running the
commands below in a command prompt (Start/Run --> cmd.exe)

net.exe stop wuauserv
rd /s /q %windir%\softwaredistribution
net.exe start wuauserv


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torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
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