Probably the WU client is out of date - try this url (ignore title)

Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update, from Microsoft Update, or by
using Automatic Updates after you repair a Windows XP installation
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144

If that's not the case, post again.

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"William B. Lurie" <billurie@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:uABeD29sIHA.5096@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
|I hadn't looked for updates for a while, so
| I went to Windows Update, and it went "Checking for
| Latest Updates" and the green bars kept sliding across
| forever.......it used to take a few minutes, now it's
| forever.
|
| What am I doing wrong?