Windows Updates Never Download

Windows Updates Never Download I get the same yellow baloon alert every day that tells me updates are available. I click on the baloon, and click the Download button. The window minimizes, and the yellow icon disappears immediately. The updates never download. What is going on?!
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Guest [Entry]

"Assuming XP or later:

Run-->Services.msc

Stop the Background Intelligent Transfer service (aka BITS) if it's running (should be set to ""Manual"" startup), and stop the Windows Update service (which should be set to ""Automatic"" startup).

Open a CMD box and go delete everything in the %systemroot%\SoftwareDistribution folder (usually C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution).

Go back and start the Windows Update service.

Visit MicrosoftUpdate and follow the prompts.

If that doesn't work, another thing to consider would be that you may have a previously failed patch that's preventing the problematic patch from installing. Though, that situation will usually produce an error in Windows Update itself, and/or it the system event logs.

Hope that helps."