{"id":4649,"date":"2007-06-16T00:48:49","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T16:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=4649"},"modified":"2019-07-31T22:02:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T14:02:52","slug":"automatic-updates-does-not-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2007\/06\/automatic-updates-does-not-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic Updates does not work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blog\/2007\/06\/a_tip_on_troubleshooting_a_ver.html\">found out <\/a>the hard way that you need to regularly install the patches downloaded by Automatic Updates. Strangely when I decided to click on the yellow shield to install, it kept stuck at &#8220;Initializing installation&#8221;.  I have seen this before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stopped the &#8220;Automatic Updates&#8221; service in your Services panel.  In your Windows directory, rename the folder &#8220;Software Distribution&#8221; to another name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Start the &#8220;Automatic Updates&#8221; service will re-create the &#8220;Software Distribution&#8221; folder. Force an update by running <strong>&#8220;wuauclt \/detectnow&#8221;<\/strong> or just go to Windows Update web page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The patch history for your computer is kept in the &#8220;Software Distribution&#8221; folder.  For audit purposes, you want to print out the patches installed before deleting the folder.  Microsoft should really have a printer friendly page for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I found out the hard way that you need to regularly install the patches downloaded by Automatic Updates. Strangely when I decided to click on the yellow shield to install, it kept stuck at &#8220;Initializing installation&#8221;. I have seen&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4650,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649\/revisions\/4650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}