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Windows has been updating for weeks

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For many weeks when my two son's turn off their computer there is a windows update logo on the shut down tab, it then takes ages to turn off.
Now we have resorted to turning it off via an other tab to by pass this.
Why is it taking so long to update?
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  • Belnahua
    Belnahua Posts: 1,493 Forumite
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    Do a manual update by clicking on the yellow shield while the computer is running, and it should show an update which has failed.

    If you search for the failed update in Google, it will tell you how to go about freeing it up.
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  • penrhyn
    penrhyn Posts: 15,215 Forumite
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    You don't say which version of windows you son is running, or the speed of his internet connection.
    Windows Vista service pack 1, and XP service pack 3 have been available for some time now and are both huge.
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  • exprog
    exprog Posts: 413 Forumite
    Not sure I entirely understand what you are saying but I may have recently had a similar problem.

    I use dial-up (not BB) so MS downloads can take quite a while.

    There was recently an enormous one. Because it was so big I kept the machine online for two hours. The next day I gave it another two hours. It still had not downloaded. I think it continued a bit the next day. Then it seemed to disappear. Subsequently I received notification of two downloads available. The first one was fairly big but not huge and downloaded reasonably quickly. The second one appeared to be the one that had gone missing. It then downloaded in under an hour.

    Soon after there was another very small MS download that was quickly done.

    I concluded that there may have been a problem with the big download and then it somehow got fixed.
  • M4RKM
    M4RKM Posts: 5,132 Forumite
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    one option is to turn off automatic updates if you are on dial-up... :)
  • firbyfred
    firbyfred Posts: 432 Forumite
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    penrhyn wrote: »
    You don't say which version of windows you son is running, or the speed of his internet connection.
    Windows Vista service pack 1, and XP service pack 3 have been available for some time now and are both huge.

    HI, back again,
    it is XP
    media center edition
    version 2
    service pack 2

    Our broadband downloads about 512mb.(not sure if that's the correct letters)
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