why has vista stopped automatic updates?

Thank you VZ, you have saved me from the **** of the Wanna Cry virus ！！

Just want to share how I made it done:

First of all, I change the settings of the Window Updates in the Control Panel  to " never check for updates",

then I restart the computer.

I then download all VZ's 5 manual updates onto my desktop.

Then I start to run each of the 5 updates manually .

Until you have finish running all the 5 updates, you can then restart the computer to enable these 5 updates actually work.

The sequence to run these 5 updates depends on the condition of your computer AND to me,

I have the 1st update runs well but then I cannot get through the 2nd update.

So what I did was, I restart the computer after the 1st update and then go with the other updates instead the 2nd problematic one.

After all the rest of the updates are run, I go back to  the 2nd problematic update .

This time , probably the window vista has been properly triggered by the four updates, there is no more problem to run the 2nd update.

So after I am finished with all the 5 updates , I  run the updates for prevention of the Wanna Cry virus in microsoft MS17-010.

Then restart the computer.

So my nightmare is gone now.

Thank you so much, VZ .

You're welcome. :)

Manually downloading the updates in the revised 5/9/17 answer allowed me to automatically get an additional 27 updates that I was missing for my Vista 32-bit computer.  Thank you Volume Z !!!

In case you are not aware, MS has issued another set of what they consider Extremely Critical Security Updates for both Vista and EVEN Windows XP!!! Here is the link for manual download if you can't get Windows Update to work per VZ's Answer. Scan through all three Tables for applicable downloads.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4025687/microsoft-security-advisory-4025685-guidance-for-older-platforms

OUgrad

EDIT - Here are the June 13, 2017 Office Updates, including Office 2007 and 2003.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023935/june-13-2017-update-for-microsoft-office