Updates notification doesn't

Vista Home premium. Logging in using a Standard account. WU set to notify me
to download and install available updates. It doesn't.
Can anyone point a way to a solution?

Absent any serious numerical Errors in your WindowsUpdate.log, you may be
seeing a delay caused by excessive demand on the servers ("Update is not
allowed to download due to regulation"). It can take up to 7 days for all
Automatic Update users to get new updates when so many have been released.

You can try downloading/installing the updates by running Windows Update
manually: Understand that by doing so, you're pushing all the Automatic
Updates users further back in the queue (which may explain, at least in
part, why Automatic Updates hasn't brought them in for you yet).
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Gordon wrote:
> Vista Home premium. Logging in using a Standard account. WU set to notify
> me
> to download and install available updates. It doesn't.
> Can anyone point a way to a solution?

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
> Absent any serious numerical Errors in your WindowsUpdate.log, you may
> be seeing a delay caused by excessive demand on the servers ("Update is
> not allowed to download due to regulation"). It can take up to 7 days
> for all Automatic Update users to get new updates when so many have been
> released.
>
> You can try downloading/installing the updates by running Windows Update
> manually: Understand that by doing so, you're pushing all the Automatic
> Updates users further back in the queue (which may explain, at least in
> part, why Automatic Updates hasn't brought them in for you yet).

PA Bear,

Don't know if this is relevant, but I have a minor issue that I think
the OP might be talking about.

In my case, my computer has been notified about updates, but the
notification icon in the task bar is absent. I almost never see it, and
the only way I find out about the updates is by running it manually.
Note that when I open the update window, it does not have to scan for
needed updates, they are already there. It just never notifies me.

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"Dave T." <> wrote in message
news:EKDpk.18466$...
> PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
>> Absent any serious numerical Errors in your WindowsUpdate.log, you may be
>> seeing a delay caused by excessive demand on the servers ("Update is not
>> allowed to download due to regulation"). It can take up to 7 days for
>> all Automatic Update users to get new updates when so many have been
>> released.
>>
>> You can try downloading/installing the updates by running Windows Update
>> manually: Understand that by doing so, you're pushing all the Automatic
>> Updates users further back in the queue (which may explain, at least in
>> part, why Automatic Updates hasn't brought them in for you yet).
>
> PA Bear,
>
> Don't know if this is relevant, but I have a minor issue that I think the
> OP might be talking about.
>
> In my case, my computer has been notified about updates, but the
> notification icon in the task bar is absent. I almost never see it, and
> the only way I find out about the updates is by running it manually. Note
> that when I open the update window, it does not have to scan for needed
> updates, they are already there. It just never notifies me.
>


That's exactly it.....the notification icon never appears....

Gordon wrote:
>> PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
>>> Absent any serious numerical Errors in your WindowsUpdate.log, you may
>>> be
>>> seeing a delay caused by excessive demand on the servers ("Update is not
>>> allowed to download due to regulation"). It can take up to 7 days for
>>> all Automatic Update users to get new updates when so many have been
>>> released.
>>>
>>> You can try downloading/installing the updates by running Windows Update
>>> manually: Understand that by doing so, you're pushing all the Automatic
>>> Updates users further back in the queue (which may explain, at least in
>>> part, why Automatic Updates hasn't brought them in for you yet).
>>
>> Don't know if this is relevant, but I have a minor issue that I think the
>> OP might be talking about.
>>
>> In my case, my computer has been notified about updates, but the
>> notification icon in the task bar is absent. I almost never see it, and
>> the only way I find out about the updates is by running it manually. Note
>> that when I open the update window, it does not have to scan for needed
>> updates, they are already there. It just never notifies me.
>
> That's exactly it.....the notification icon never appears....

Gordon, please reply to my post, not Dave's. Thanks.

Gordon wrote:

> Vista Home premium. Logging in using a Standard account. WU set to
> notify me to download and install available updates. It doesn't.
> Can anyone point a way to a solution?

In Windows XP, WU only notified administrators by default. I don't know for
certain Vista behaves the same way, but I suspect it might.

You can change this by setting the ElevateNonAdmins registry key as described in
this document:

<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc708449.aspx>

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc708449.aspx

Harry.

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