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re: Microsoft Update & Windows Update
Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 7:36 am
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Posted by Ari (1140 messages posted)


How long is "quite awhile"?  It's possible, depending on the speed of your machine 
and connection, to be getting that activity bar for 5 or 10 minutes while it inventories 
the updates already on your system and compares them to what's available for download.






On Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 6:18 am, Dom C. wrote:
>I'm trying to run Microsoft Update or Windows Update under Windows XP Home w/SP2.
>Problem: The activity bar shows that MS Update or Windows Update is running but it
>seems as if the update process is in a loop. All I'm getting is is the activity bar
>showing that the process is running. I let this run for quite awhile until I manually
>end the process. Has anyone had this problem, if yes did you resolve it? Thanks for
>any help!!



Written in response to:
Microsoft Update & Windows Update (Dom C.: Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 6:18 am)

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*re: Microsoft Update & Windows Update (Dom C.: Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 9:41 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Microsoft Update & Windows Update (Dom C.: Sat, May 3, 2008, 6:18 am)
-re: Microsoft Update & Windows Update (Ari: Sat, May 3, 2008, 7:36 am)
*re: Microsoft Update & Windows Update (Dom C.: Sat, May 3, 2008, 9:41 am)
-re: Microsoft Update & Windows Update (Romasurus !!!: Sat, May 3, 2008, 9:39 am)
*re: Microsoft Update & Windows Update (Dom C.: Sat, May 3, 2008, 11:02 am)
*re: Microsoft Update & Windows Update (bob wells: Sat, May 3, 2008, 11:01 am)
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