why has vista stopped automatic updates?

Great White North,

     thanks for your comprehensive solution to all our WU woes.  Along the way, I discovered the WSUS Offline Update you mentioned, which I think could be the be-all-end-all to these frustrating problems.  Because I had

gotten WU working by that time, I merely "road-tested" the downloading portion, but didn't actually install the

fixes from that media.  Is there anything exotic about the installation, or do I just follow Torsten's software?

Just wondered, in case I have further WU problems with my Windows 7 machine.

Regards,

Frederick (fellow Canadian)

nhetznelson,

     just a follow-up to your Error '8DDD0010', I was successful in getting past the error later after waiting awhile.

As OUgrad's reply suggested, the MS servers were likely jammed with other users getting their downloads too.

So, be patient, and hope you're at the success part by now.  You might also consider that tip about using the

WSUS Offline Update referred to in Great White North's note of March 25.

Regards,

Frederick

Along the way, I discovered the WSUS Offline Update you mentioned, which I think could be the be-all-end-all to these frustrating problems....Is there anything exotic about the installation, or do I just follow Torsten's software?

Hi FrederickBarfoot:

I've managed to keep my Vista SP2 machine fully patched each month using Dalai's workaround (Volume Z maintains a current list of all the necessary "speed up" patches <here> in this thread that must be pre-installed to speed up Windows Update) but if you want to try Torsten Wittrock's WSUS Offline Update tool just remember it's a two-step process - Download and Installation.  Follow the instructions at http://www.wsusoffline.net/docs/ under Installation Part to run UpdateInstaller.exe once the Download Part is complete.  According to vista134's instructions in the bleepingcomputer thread How I got clean install of Vista Ultimate SP2 to install updates... the UpdateInstaller.exe file should be located in a subfolder named Client.

Also note that download options for Vista SP2 must be selected on the Legacy Products tab on the WSUS Offline Update tool GUI. If you run into any problems there is a WSUS Offline Update forum and Dalai is active in that forum.

32-bit Vista Home Premium SP2 * Firefox ESR v52.0.1 * NIS v22.9.1.12 * MBAM Premium v2.2.1

HP Pavilion dv6835ca, Intel Core2Duo T5550 @ 1.83 GHz, 3 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

Thanks GWN for your further directions on WSUS Offline Installer.

I did in fact select "Legacy Products" tab for the Vista SP2 patches, however, after April 11 there will no further updates, but I gather you could still obtain fixes in effect until that date, via WSUS Offline.

Cheers!