Windows Vista Update - Timing Out... HELP!

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Mtblade

Howdy all you Guru's,
I have 4 vista 32 bit machines. 1 will update beautifully. When I go to run
the Windows update, the other 3 "time out". They sit there with a blank box
on the screen for well over 5 minutes, before in sheer frustration, I trash
it.

I know at least 1 machine is saying it has 350Mb of downloads to do, but
when I tell it to start, it does nothing. All are running SP1.

Help! Please. I want to go home..... hehe


PS> Yes, this is also posted in the Technet Australia forums. :-)
 
Mtblade said:
Howdy all you Guru's,
I have 4 vista 32 bit machines. 1 will update beautifully. When I go to run
the Windows update, the other 3 "time out". They sit there with a blank box
on the screen for well over 5 minutes, before in sheer frustration, I trash
it.

I know at least 1 machine is saying it has 350Mb of downloads to do, but
when I tell it to start, it does nothing. All are running SP1.

Help! Please. I want to go home..... hehe


PS> Yes, this is also posted in the Technet Australia forums. :-)
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ADDITIONAL INFO - This is the error in the report log for those who
understand this type of thing.

Description
A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: AppHangXProcB1
Application Name: Explorer.EXE
Application Version: 6.0.6001.18000
Application Timestamp: 47918e5d
Hang Signature: 38b9
Hang Type: 6208
Waiting on Application Name: svchost.exe
Waiting on Application Version: 0.0.0.0
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 3081
Additional Hang Signature 1: 004541ee7c2b5183af20e906337621ea
Additional Hang Signature 2: 9b77
Additional Hang Signature 3: f4b9b73d838eac301a2f47282f8885c2
Additional Hang Signature 4: 38b9
Additional Hang Signature 5: 004541ee7c2b5183af20e906337621ea
Additional Hang Signature 6: 9b77
Additional Hang Signature 7: f4b9b73d838eac301a2f47282f8885c2

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 171479670
 
Night Hawk said:
Well lately when going direct to the MS update site some problems have
been seen where you couldn't even get here in the U.S. Yet going into
the Start menu>Windows update with Vista or Control Panel>Windows update
link seen in 7 the normal update scan is seen. The direct connect may be
down for scheduled maintainence or simply rehauling after the storms in
late 2008 plus the beta release of 7 in January.
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Hey Nighthawk,

Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately, I have been able to get 1 of the 4
machines to update flawlessly. I had automatic updates turned off, and did a
forced update today, using the normal Vista Windows update.

The other 3 machines which were set to auto update daily at 3am have not
done so. It is driving me nuts. :(

Thanks for the help though, it is very much appreciated.

Mtblade
 
i would try deleting the internet temp files and any files in %temp% then
try to download any update from MS downloads to a flash dive and run
manually if it works OK is it something on your modem router (just a guess)
reset all the connection and try again.
 
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