Hi, In 2007 I bought my Grandson a Dell desktop computer with Vista installed. For a year, he got his Microsoft updates on a regular basis with no problems. Then, in 2008 the updates began to fail. I have learned that to date 80 updates in all have failed to install. I took a look and sure enough the progress bar preparing to install goes and goes but nothing happens. Last night I told him to let it alone and see if the updates eventually install, and he tells me that after a few hours he gave up.

Does anyone know what the problem could be and how I can get it going. In the control panel under the security folder, it is indeed checked off to download updates automatically. However I can't even make it download updates manually. Thanks in advance. :emotion-1: