Stuck @ Downloading updates: 0%

[George]

I clicked on the "Updates Available" notification icon.
Later when I checked the "roll-over" status, I got the
indication "Downloading updates: 0%". Days later it
still says that and I can't get rid of that icon in the
Notification Area. What's up?

George

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

I clicked on the "Updates Available" notification icon.
Later when I checked the "roll-over" status, I got the
indication "Downloading updates: 0%". Days later it
still says that and I can't get rid of that icon in the
Notification Area. What's up?

George

Hi

In Control Panel/Automatic Updates, turn AU off, do a reboot,
and then turn AU on again and see if that helps.

If that doesn't help, try this:

Clean out the Download folder (WU5's temporary download folder)
located here:

%windir%\SoftwareDistribution\

(%windir% is typically C:\Windows)

You can use the procedure described here:

http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/v5consumer/showarticle.aspx?articleid=11&ln=en

You might need to delete the DataStore folder mentioned in the link
above, as well as the EventCache folder.

Note that a side effect of deleting the DataStore folder is that you
lose your WU v5 History listing (not critical).


If the problem repeat itself later on, try the steps here as well:

http://groups.google.com/[email protected]