When does Windows update start?

[The Old Fart]

I have noticed several times that I get a yellow shield pop up on the
task bar to tell me that Windows has some more updates ready for me. I
look at whats on offer select several & click OK.

As I understand it the downloads will only occur when I'm not using the
connection for other things. But nothing appears to happen. I can open
my connection with my ISP & see that no data is going either up or down.
I can go back 10 minutes later after never touching the PC & still
nothing. When do the downloads start? A week later I might get notice
that downloads are ready to be installed.

 

[TaurArian [MS-MVP]]

Annoying that you can't check what is happening but that's life.
Sometimes it can take several days especially if the servers are busy.
If you get impatient, like I do, visit the WU site manually.
K

Updates are not downloaded or the "Automatic Updates" icon does not display the
status of downloads when you enable the Automatic Updates service
http://www.support.microsoft.com/kb/910340

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"The Old Fart" <" "> wrote in message |I have noticed several times that I get a yellow shield pop up on the
| task bar to tell me that Windows has some more updates ready for me. I
| look at whats on offer select several & click OK.
|
| As I understand it the downloads will only occur when I'm not using the
| connection for other things. But nothing appears to happen. I can open
| my connection with my ISP & see that no data is going either up or down.
| I can go back 10 minutes later after never touching the PC & still
| nothing. When do the downloads start? A week later I might get notice
| that downloads are ready to be installed.
| --
| Thanks in advance