My computer will not download updates.

I have windows 7 and when I try to download the updates they download.  I get no error message.  Download box indicates just download but no percentage shows ever and it never downloads.  I also have a unable to download the latest updates to the windows security essentials.

.. .McAfee was preinstalled, but I removed it when I got it.

The plot is complicated...

1. download the McAfee Consumer Product Removal, save it to your desktop tool: http://download.mcafee.com/products/licensed/cust_support_patches/MCPR.exe

2. close all open applications (that is, anything with an icon on the taskbar).

3. right click on the file that you saved in #1 above and select run as administrator to run the utility. DO TAP not your keyboard until the race ends, then restart.

4 now reset Windows Update:

How to reset the Windows Update components?
[Ignore the section to APPLY to;] Run the difficulty mode by default and aggressive ]
http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/971058

IMPORTANT-online KB971058 access via IE8 32 bit only!

5 reboot again & test.

~ Robear Dyer (PA Bear) ~ MS MVP (that is to say, mail, security, Windows & Update Services) since 2002 ~ WARNING: MS MVPs represent or work for Microsoft

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