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From: Steve Giannoni on 15 Jun 2010 10:56
Yellow icon is back this AM with the same 2 updates ! ...

On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:09:22 -0400, Steve Giannoni
<casagiannoni(a)optonline.net> wrote:

>On each of 2 separate systems the following occurs. The yellow shield
>icon appears in the task bar and indicates that updates are ready to
>install. Clicking then produces what appears to be a normal
>installation of 2 particular updates. At completion, the yellow shield
>disappears as expected BUT returns after about a minute! Thus, back to
>the start! The same 2 updates are apparently reinstalled each time.
From: Tinkerer on 16 Jun 2010 04:50

"123Jim" <jnkjnjnini(a)uhnuhnunuhnuy.invalid> wrote in message
news:hv4rgp$o18$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>
> "GT" <a(a)b.c> wrote in message
> news:4c15ef6c$0$2568$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com...
>> "Steve Giannoni" <casagiannoni(a)optonline.net> wrote in message
>> news:c2s916dc79uqt9t56ruf5pdcpiecpl2sld(a)4ax.com...
>>> On each of 2 separate systems the following occurs. The yellow shield
>>> icon appears in the task bar and indicates that updates are ready to
>>> install. Clicking then produces what appears to be a normal
>>> installation of 2 particular updates. At completion, the yellow shield
>>> disappears as expected BUT returns after about a minute! Thus, back to
>>> the start! The same 2 updates are apparently reinstalled each time.
>>
>> I know you have solved this one now, but for reference there is a hard
>> way and an easily way to solve this:
>>
>> The easy way is to disable the updates that won't install - All you have
>> to do is click on the shield to get the install dialog, then choose the
>> 'manual install' option, then untick the ones that don't install and they
>> won't bother you again.
>>
>> The hard way should result in the updates being correctly installed
>> rather than ignored - it involves google, the registry plus time and
>> effort.
>
>
> Your easy way leaves you system vulnerable to exploits, you don't want
> security updates?. Your hard way is not so hard and does not involve
> manually editing the registry: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971058
>

That is the same link that the OP posted as curing his problem, but if you
read on, it came back, exactly the same, a day later and he is still stuck
with it.
--
Tinkerer


From: 123Jim on 16 Jun 2010 05:14

"Tinkerer" <invalidaddress(a)invalidaddress.invalid> wrote in message
news:hva39a$147$1(a)news.albasani.net...
>
> "123Jim" <jnkjnjnini(a)uhnuhnunuhnuy.invalid> wrote in message
> news:hv4rgp$o18$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>>
>> "GT" <a(a)b.c> wrote in message
>> news:4c15ef6c$0$2568$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com...
>>> "Steve Giannoni" <casagiannoni(a)optonline.net> wrote in message
>>> news:c2s916dc79uqt9t56ruf5pdcpiecpl2sld(a)4ax.com...
>>>> On each of 2 separate systems the following occurs. The yellow shield
>>>> icon appears in the task bar and indicates that updates are ready to
>>>> install. Clicking then produces what appears to be a normal
>>>> installation of 2 particular updates. At completion, the yellow shield
>>>> disappears as expected BUT returns after about a minute! Thus, back to
>>>> the start! The same 2 updates are apparently reinstalled each time.
>>>
>>> I know you have solved this one now, but for reference there is a hard
>>> way and an easily way to solve this:
>>>
>>> The easy way is to disable the updates that won't install - All you have
>>> to do is click on the shield to get the install dialog, then choose the
>>> 'manual install' option, then untick the ones that don't install and
>>> they won't bother you again.
>>>
>>> The hard way should result in the updates being correctly installed
>>> rather than ignored - it involves google, the registry plus time and
>>> effort.
>>
>>
>> Your easy way leaves you system vulnerable to exploits, you don't want
>> security updates?. Your hard way is not so hard and does not involve
>> manually editing the registry: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971058
>>
>
> That is the same link that the OP posted as curing his problem, but if you
> read on, it came back, exactly the same, a day later and he is still stuck
> with it.
> --


Yep, the OP has a separate thread where we are still on the case .... ....
nobody has offered the concise definitive solution .. yet it's a popular
problem ;)


From: Tinkerer on 16 Jun 2010 12:44

"123Jim" <jnkjnjnini(a)uhnuhnunuhnuy.invalid> wrote in message
news:hva4la$4eg$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>
> "Tinkerer" <invalidaddress(a)invalidaddress.invalid> wrote in message
> news:hva39a$147$1(a)news.albasani.net...
>>
>> "123Jim" <jnkjnjnini(a)uhnuhnunuhnuy.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:hv4rgp$o18$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>>>
>>> "GT" <a(a)b.c> wrote in message
>>> news:4c15ef6c$0$2568$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com...
>>>> "Steve Giannoni" <casagiannoni(a)optonline.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:c2s916dc79uqt9t56ruf5pdcpiecpl2sld(a)4ax.com...
>>>>> On each of 2 separate systems the following occurs. The yellow shield
>>>>> icon appears in the task bar and indicates that updates are ready to
>>>>> install. Clicking then produces what appears to be a normal
>>>>> installation of 2 particular updates. At completion, the yellow shield
>>>>> disappears as expected BUT returns after about a minute! Thus, back to
>>>>> the start! The same 2 updates are apparently reinstalled each time.
>>>>
>>>> I know you have solved this one now, but for reference there is a hard
>>>> way and an easily way to solve this:
>>>>
>>>> The easy way is to disable the updates that won't install - All you
>>>> have to do is click on the shield to get the install dialog, then
>>>> choose the 'manual install' option, then untick the ones that don't
>>>> install and they won't bother you again.
>>>>
>>>> The hard way should result in the updates being correctly installed
>>>> rather than ignored - it involves google, the registry plus time and
>>>> effort.
>>>
>>>
>>> Your easy way leaves you system vulnerable to exploits, you don't want
>>> security updates?. Your hard way is not so hard and does not involve
>>> manually editing the registry: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971058
>>>
>>
>> That is the same link that the OP posted as curing his problem, but if
>> you read on, it came back, exactly the same, a day later and he is still
>> stuck with it.
>> --
>
>
> Yep, the OP has a separate thread where we are still on the case .... ....
> nobody has offered the concise definitive solution .. yet it's a popular
> problem ;)


You're telling me. The wife's cousin has just called me up with the exact
same problem. I wonder if something MS sent out was a bit iffy. I shall
watch this thread and hope for an answer.
--
Tinkerer


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