Jim,
What's occurring is that Automatic Updates can not download one of the
offered updates due to it being "PerUpdate" regulated. If you use IE to
visit either Windows or Microsoft Update, the update is then detected as
being needed, downloaded, and installed with no regulation. While that
is occurring the update icon pops up in the Notification Area and
depending upon the setting of AU, will state that the update is ready to
be installed or downloaded.
When one of the updates is being regulated you'll notice that if you
click Shutdown there's an overlay on Shutdown that states updates will
be installed when the system is turned off along with a link to shutdown
the system without installing updates.
I've seen this behavior on 2 XP systems that were just updated the past
2 days. On one I navigated to
WINDOWS\Software Distribution\Download
located the recently downloaded updates, drilled down to the Update
subfolder, checked the KBxxxxxx.CAT to confirm which update it was, and
then ran update.exe to install them.
On the other system I just used the Microsoft Update site to bring down
the "PerUpdate" regulated update, ignored the update icon in the
Notification Area, and all of the previously downloaded update plus the
"PerUpdate" regulated update installed.
You can confirm that one of the updates is being regulated by checking
the WindowsUpdate.log:
How to read the Windowsupdate.log file
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902093
Once the WU.log is open, scroll down towards it's end for the most
recent entries. Look for an entry like this:
2009-12-17 09:29:21:515 980 d14 DnldMgr Regulation:
{7971F918-A847-4430-9279-4A52D1EFE18D} - Update
6821815B-8861-4014-BB33-4E9B0CC0E81E is "PerUpdate" regulated and can
NOT download. Sequence 1262 vs AcceptRate 0.
Once the update is downloaded, the update's Bundle number is listed
along with it's KB number. For the above update,
6821815B-8861-4014-BB33-4E9B0CC0E81E, it turned out to be KB955759
2009-12-17 09:29:32:320 980 c54 Agent * Title = Update for Windows
XP (KB955759)
2009-12-17 09:29:32:320 980 c54 Agent * UpdateId =
{6ACD6BCB-A59F-4926-A76E-D07E0C1ECA73}.100
2009-12-17 09:29:32:320 980 c54 Agent * Bundles 1 updates:
2009-12-17 09:29:32:320 980 c54 Agent *
{6821815B-8861-4014-BB33-4E9B0CC0E81E}
As to why update notification behaves like this, here's MS' explanation:
Update Notifications and Install-at-Shutdown Behavior
http://blogs.technet.com/mu/archive/...-shutdown.aspx
It's highly annoying and most folks will never figure out what is
actually happening. Me, I'm "persistent". <w>
MowGreen
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Jim Madsen wrote:
> Windows XP SP3, IE7
>
> When the icon for windows tray appears telling me I have updates, I
> click on it, chose custom, and chose the updates I wish to install. It
> starts downloading the updates, and the icon disappears, but never comes
> back to let me install the updates. -- Even if I reboot.
>
> So if I go into IE and choose Windows Update tool, I select the updates
> I want. After these have downloaded again, all of a sudden the icon
> appears again in the system tray, like, oh -- I forgot -- you can
> install these updates now.
>
> At this time I usually just let IE7 install the updates.
>
> This is mostly a minor annoyance, but just curious, as to what could be
> causing this behavior.
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