Yellow shield just sits on task bar

[ross]

The yellow Shield sitting on my task bar says (when holding pointer over it)
that updates are being downloaded,but no matter what i do, right or left
click it.Nothing happens so i don`t know what is being downloaded.Very
susspicious!Any help or thoughts will be appreciated.......Thanks

 

[Vinson]

Automatic Windows updates sometime trickle in because they are using BITS
(Background Intelligent Transfer Service), which tries to use very little of
your internet bandwidth. Why not go to www.microsoft.com and choose to do an
update, on the web? Click on 'Security and Updates' and then click on
'Microsoft Update,' and follow the prompts. Updates would happen faster
that way, and you will likely see the little yellow shield vanish when all
updates are completed.

You can always instruct Windows to notify you when updates are available
instead of downloading them automatically. When they are available a similar
notification will show up on the systray. Just follow the instructions in
the first paragraph to download them.

Vinson

 

[Anteaus]

Lately I've found manual downloading of security updates to be glacially
slow. That might be the reason.