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Minor windows annoyance. Automatic update still downloads but always makes me install manually. I have clicked the "set a time" to install in explorer, but it still fails to install when I leave the machine on overnight. My OS is XP home, patched through latest update.
Does your machine sleep overnight? I think it needs to be awake for the update to work....
The screen goes off, but I note that other processes (like virus scans work.) OK the hard disk all sleeps. Maybe that is the problem. I've now set my hard disk to never sleep when plugged into power. I'll see if that solves it.
If it's just the hard disk that sleeps, I don't think that should prevent the update from happening. But maybe it's worth a shot.
You might try looking at the Event Viewer to see if anything happened (or if there were any errors) at the time the update was supposed to happen....
I'm just seeing downloads, but not even attempts at updating.