why has vista stopped automatic updates?

MS has to be responsible for this failure of the Update program on Vista and W7. It's absurd that we should spend so much time trying to get it to work. It's clear that they want everyone to go to W10.

It hasn't failed yet on my W8.1, but I expect it will soon enough.

Joe

KB3191203       http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB3191203

KB3203859       http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB3203859

KB3204723       http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB3204723

KB3205638       http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB3205638

KB3203621       http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB3203621

The Update Client is inappropriate for processing these ones automatically. They need to be installed manually for Windows Update to work.

The Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer does not apply if IE9 is not installed.

If your installation is eligible for KB3128022 and KB3128024 (Office 2003, 2007), KB3128019 and KB3128025 (Office 2007) or KB3128034 and KB3128037 (Office 2010), they need to be installed manually.

December 2016 Security Update for Microsoft Office

Set automatic updates to "Never check for updates" and reboot prior to manual installation.

Regards, VZ

I am not sure if installing these updates worked or not, as I have run so many updates trying to resolve this issue over the past week, but I will say after installing these updates and letting the "update program run for over 12 hours" it did report "27 updates to be installed" of these 23 have installed and 4 failed with errors 80070005 and 800705B4, I will follow up on this post if I get more info after a "restart".

UPDATE: Feb 26 2017

Consider resetting Update Components:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-update/windows-update-doesnt-work-even-with-the-solution/1e7c6642-fd2b-4122-a62d-b5dff90b777d

Regards, VZ :)

I installed all these and a couple more I found in another post. They installed ok but the Auto Windows Update still doesn't work.  It just goes on and on forever checking for updates. The last auto update that was installed was KB3170106 on September 21, 2016.  Is there a list I can look at of ALL updates since then to manually install and see if the automatic update will then  work.  I really appreciate your help and I think Microsoft should be the ones to put forth an answer to fix this problem.  I am really thinking I had better try a MacIntosh next time.

Thanks again for helping.