Yesterday I had two pc's to perform a system restoration on. One a
Compaq and the other a E-Machines. All went well with no errors as
usual but, The Compaq refuses to get updates from MS. I chose MS
updates vs Windows updates on both.

The Compaq will got to the update screen fine and after
choosing "Custom" it will sit for hours on end with the laser moving
and never display a list of items to update. I finally ran the SP-2
disk to give it a little better protection and hoping it would nudge
the update to start working but NOT. I even chose in updates
properties to download but allow me to choose when to install them. In
some cases I have found this works to get things started. But nothing
shows in the system tray.

The E-machines at the same time seems to work perfectly at the update
site.

Garry B