Slow Updates

[Mike]

Can anyone help i am having trouble with the download speed of the updates
it can take over an hour for just 1 small update to download. i have clean
installed my machine and have only recently started having this problem. my
broadband speed is fine as i get good speeds anywhere else on the internet
its only very slow with the updates no matter what time of day or night i
try?

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

> it can take over an hour for just 1 small update to download...
> ...i have clean

> installed my machine and have only recently started having this problem.

1. If you just (literally) did the clean install, try Methods 1 and/or 2 in
the following KB article (Trust me):

Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update, from Microsoft
Update, or by using Automatic Updates after you perform a new Windows XP
installation or you repair a Windows XP installation
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144

Most WinXP SP2/SP3 machines will be offered a minimum of six (6) updates
plus the Malicious Software Removal tool this month!

2. Otherwise and absent any serious numerical Errors in your
windowsupdate.log, you may be seeing a delay caused by excessive demand on
the servers ("Update is not allowed to download due to regulation"). It can
take up to 7 days or more (sometimes much more) for all Automatic Update
users to get new updates when so many have been released on the second
Tuesday of a given month. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910340

You can try downloading/installing the updates via Windows/Microsoft Update:
Understand that by doing so, you're pushing all the Automatic Updates users
further back in the queue (which may explain, at least in part, why
Automatic Updates hasn't brought them in for you yet).
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