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How can you manually begin Windows XP's Windows Update without entering to http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate with IE?
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How can you manually begin Windows XP's Windows Update without entering to http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate with IE?
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From command line, force detect with:
wuauclt /detectnow
To troubleshoot machines updating from my WSUS server.
I am not sure if it will apply to normal online updating but it is worth mentioning.
Troubleshoot update issues with this logfile:
%windir%\windowsupdate.log
If you are using Windows 10, Windows updates are logged with ETW (Event Tracing for Windows): https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3036646
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Another way to manually begin the windows update procedure in XP is to restart it from the Control Panel:
This forces Automatic Updates to restart, and the result can be seen in the logfile
%windir%\WindowsUpdate.log
This is also a great way to restart AU downloads if they have been interrupted for some reason.
1If my gut feeling is correct, this is like setting Windows Update to automatic and the run hour to now. Is this correct? – voyager – 2009-08-08T13:44:57.493