Posted February 24, 201014 yr Thanks for all the prior tips, they did me no good, BUT, after turning firewall OFF (to no avail) I began eliminating hardware, starting with the Belkin 54g Wireless router(only), simply cable connected directly to modem and, "Hey Presto" (update) download action! Stopped the "update" (pulled the LAN cable) to allow Windows 7 Firewall to be re-activated (important!), and then reconnected the LAN cable and re-initiated the "Update", sweet, no change due to the Firewall in my case (using "Recommended Settings"). Interesting to note that Windows Firewall does not mention "Windows Update" in it's "list" so I'm perplexed at previous mentions of firewall involvement (which didn't offer any detail about settings etc - helpful for us "noobies"?). I'm now going to restart after "update" (which for some reason managed only 9 of 18 updates successfully, i.e. 9 failures), so after restart I'll re-initiate "Update" but this time I'll re-introduce the Belkin 54g router via cable (not wireless) to see if that works (thus pinpointing area of suspected conflict/intereference within the router/AP).
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