Windows update hangs at 66%

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Gary Townsend

HI all hopefully someone can help me i found the following article
from january. I am having the exact same problem. However i am using
windows XP.
The rest of the symptoms are exactly the same. Has anyone found any
solution to this problem as it is obviously not a Platform problem.

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From: William ([email protected])
Subject: Re: Windows Update Hangs at 66%


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Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.windows_update
Date: 2003-01-20 15:07:53 PST


I have seen this several times, mostly on Win98SE machines, but also
on a
W2kProf. On the W2k machine, after the 66% hang, MSIE must be ended.
Then
certain websites--those requiring logon or existing cookies--are no
longer
accessible. If you clear the Internet cache, then it works
again--until
your try Windows updates again.

I've scoured the MS Knowledge Base to no avail. The one thing I've
seen
that is common to all the computers with this problem is Internet
access
through a router using NAT. Others have reported the same to me, but
no one
has a solution. In one case, I disconnected the W2k computer from the
router and connected to the Internet directly through the DSL modem.
Windows update worked perfectly, as did the logon site. When I
reconnected
via the router, the problem returned.

I'll follow this group, though, to see if anyone has found a fix.
 
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