Since you've installed the updates manually (which trumps AU), I suppose
you'll have to wait until the next update/batch of updates comes down the
pike. When that happens, don't panic so quickly. As I said in my first
post, sometimes it can take 7-10 days before AU notifies you of available
updates, downloads the updates (all of them), and then prompts you to
install them.
Think about it: Millions of computers worldwide need these updates. There's
no way that all of them are going to be offered the updates during the first
12, 24, or even 48 hours after they're released.
If you have Windows Defender installed with AU set to Notify Only, AU should
offer you a Defender definitions update by 21 April, if not sooner.
PS: If & when you reboot, doing so will kickstart AU (WUAUCLT.EXE) which
will then attempt to sync with the update servers. Otherwise, you'll find a
line similar to the following towards the end/bottom of windowsupdate.log:
AU setting next detection timeout to 2009-04-17 16:29:15
Translation: If I don't reboot, AU will attempt to sync with the servers
again no later than 16:29 local time on Friday, 17 Apr-09.
ira wrote:
> Hi again:
>
> I don't find any specific notice regarding priority regulation or similar
> terminlology in my windowsupdate.og:
>
> I do find several errors and warnings listed in the windowsupate.log.
>
> But I find those warnings and errors as well for March and Feb when WU
> Notify seemed to work ok.
>
> "2009-04-14 21:12:22:656 1052 13c AU FATAL: Failed to get session from
> datastore, error = 0x80004002"
>
> "
> 2009-04-14 10:47:54:156 2204 8f8 DtaStor WARNING: Attempted to add URL for
> file [Cab file url]
> UhT7nPodzdOTWlbPX0c3Y+sgrT4= when file has not been previously added to
> the
> datastore"
>
>
> I did download and install those April updates via Windows Update web
> early
> on April 15. They downloaded and installed with no problems. My concern is
> that the system of WU Notify might not be working properly, since that
> balloon is usually in my system tray on Tuesday.. If it's common to have a
> day delay in the notifications, I gather there's no problem. Am I correct
> in
> this?
>
>> [I was waiting for these posts to start.]
>>
>> 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 or
>> more
>> (sometimes much more) for all Automatic Update users to get new updates
>> when so many have been released on the second Tuesday of a given month.
>> See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910340
>>
>> You can try downloading/installing the updates via Windows/Microsoft
>> Update (WinXP) or running Windows Update manually (Vista) instead:
>> 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).
>> --
>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
>> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002
>>
>>
>> ira wrote:
>>> Hello:
>>>
>>> I have Windows Update set to "Notify me, but Do Not Automatically
>>> Download
>>> or Install" . I usually get such notification in the system tray the
>>> second
>>> Tuesday in the late afternoon.
>>>
>>> By midnight , early Wed April 15, I still didn't see that notification
>>> baloon in my System Tray. So I downloaded all the critical updates
>>> manually
>>> via the Windows Update website.
>>>
>>> Question:
>>>
>>> Was this a delay in the Windows Update notification which would have
>>> kicked
>>> in the next day or so?
>>>
>>> OR
>>>
>>> Is it likely there's a problem in my PC with this setting?
>>>
>>> TIA:
>>>
>>> -ira
>>> ===============
>>>
>>> Windows XP Professional Edition SP3
>>> IE7
>>> Zone Alarm Security Suite 7.0.483.000
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