Windows Update Download Problem

I am having a problem downloading critical update KB840987 on my XP Pro
machine. Windows Update keeps toggling between "Downloading" and "Verifying
download" and never completes. It has counted up to over 200MB for the
download. If I cancel and retry, it picks up where it left off and never
completes. Any idea how to abort this and have Windows Update start from
scratch again?

All other critical updates installed successfully. Any help would be
appreciated.

Hi,

you can cancel all download jobs with the BITS-command:

bitsadmin /reset /allusers

You get the bitsadmin.exe in the XP SP2 CD in the folder
\support\tools\support.cab


"gopats2004" wrote:

> I am having a problem downloading critical update KB840987 on my XP Pro
> machine. Windows Update keeps toggling between "Downloading" and "Verifying
> download" and never completes. It has counted up to over 200MB for the
> download. If I cancel and retry, it picks up where it left off and never
> completes. Any idea how to abort this and have Windows Update start from
> scratch again?
>
> All other critical updates installed successfully. Any help would be
> appreciated.