Automatic updates have stopped running!! w/out SP3

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BCY1 - 22 May 2008 19:40 GMT

hi:

AU was running fine up until about 1 month ago. Since then i simply doesn
ot run. It is correctly setup in the AU tab of computer>properties. but
nothing seems to happen. Any help would be appreciated...i can post log file
if needed.

thanks

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Shenan Stanley - 22 May 2008 19:57 GMT

> AU was running fine up until about 1 month ago. Since then i
> simply doesn ot run. It is correctly setup in the AU tab of
> computer>properties. but nothing seems to happen. Any help would
> be appreciated...i can post log file if needed.

Not sure why you mention "w/out SP3", but okay...

Tried methods 1&2 of:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144

Ignore the title of the article. The methods have fixed issues with Windows
Update/Automatic Update many times over for the last year+...

Let us know!

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BCY1 - 22 May 2008 20:16 GMT

thanks for the quick reply to my (poorly typed ) message.....

what happened was the AU options were greyed out...so I turned them back on
in GPedit (have done this many times with various machines). All seemed
good. but then i noticed i had not received update for SP3, AND i thought
that it should have happened automatically...BUT appears i am wrong..??? i
read elswhere on forum that SP3 autoupdates will arrive in summer???

anyway, how can i check that AU is tunning OK...isn't it wuauclt /detectnow
??? then review the log?? (although i am not sure what to look for in the
log...)

many thanks

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CurtB - 22 May 2008 22:40 GMT

Have you verified the "Automatic Updates" service is running?

> thanks for the quick reply to my (poorly typed ) message.....
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> many thanks

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