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Lucvdv
I've got one Win2000 server, where I often connect through Terminal
Services in remote administration mode, where the same problem always
returns: it downloads the updates, but doesn't prompt to install them (it
is set to automatically download them in the background and prompt when
they are ready to install).
I never leave any TS sessions open (disconnected), I always log off when
done.
In the event log, I do find the messages "Installation Ready: The following
updates are downloaded and ready for installation. To install the updates,
an administrator should log on to this computer and Windows will prompt
with further instructions: [...]", so they are being downloaded.
Most of the time, it never prompts for a batch of updates at all and I have
to download them again through the windows update website.
Sometimes it does prompt, but when I postpone the installation (because I
can't reboot at that time and it will probably want me to) and log off
without installing the update, the prompt doesn't return at the next logon.
For the july batch, which contained only the malicious software removal
tool, I decided to wait for the next batch, because I know the machine is
clean. This time it has prompted 4 or 5 times at subsequent logons (all
TS), but that's exceptional: for most update batches the prompt doesn't
appear even once.
After 4-5 times it stopped prompting again (I decided to postpone the
installation until the next batch was in, because I know the machine is
malware-free).
Another machine received the august batch yesterday, so I suppose this one
has got it too, but it doesn't prompt.
Is there a known reason that could cause the prompts to stop appearing?
Is there a way to make them come back, by starting some executable or a dll
via rundll32, or by changing a registry setting?
Services in remote administration mode, where the same problem always
returns: it downloads the updates, but doesn't prompt to install them (it
is set to automatically download them in the background and prompt when
they are ready to install).
I never leave any TS sessions open (disconnected), I always log off when
done.
In the event log, I do find the messages "Installation Ready: The following
updates are downloaded and ready for installation. To install the updates,
an administrator should log on to this computer and Windows will prompt
with further instructions: [...]", so they are being downloaded.
Most of the time, it never prompts for a batch of updates at all and I have
to download them again through the windows update website.
Sometimes it does prompt, but when I postpone the installation (because I
can't reboot at that time and it will probably want me to) and log off
without installing the update, the prompt doesn't return at the next logon.
For the july batch, which contained only the malicious software removal
tool, I decided to wait for the next batch, because I know the machine is
clean. This time it has prompted 4 or 5 times at subsequent logons (all
TS), but that's exceptional: for most update batches the prompt doesn't
appear even once.
After 4-5 times it stopped prompting again (I decided to postpone the
installation until the next batch was in, because I know the machine is
malware-free).
Another machine received the august batch yesterday, so I suppose this one
has got it too, but it doesn't prompt.
Is there a known reason that could cause the prompts to stop appearing?
Is there a way to make them come back, by starting some executable or a dll
via rundll32, or by changing a registry setting?