Your WindowsUpdate log contains no entries relating to the operation of
Automatic Update but instead just the usual WU activity.

Tried three times, rebooting and giving the system the idle time
required--nothing expected happened.

Well you are way ahead of me as I don't have a clue as to the idle time
required. All I know is that this can be 24 hours or more after resetting
AU. Did you wait that long? I suspect not given the number of times you
say you have tried.

Mike, I've been using the time stamp of AUstate.cfg (see
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;275645) as an
indicator as to weather or not AU is working.

And the relevance of this is what? You have already confirmed that you
have not had a new copy of AUState.cfg created so to me at least AU has
yet to kick in which is also why you will see no wupdlog.txt. I feel you
may perhaps need to be a little more patient.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



(yet another) Steve wrote:

Mike,

I tried your procedure (below) and it didn't work. No error messages,
but here's the details:
1) AUState.cfg never got recreated
2) wupdlog.txt never was created (searched the HD for it)
3) Windows Update.log never got updated (no new entries)
4) Never saw a Eula

Tried three times, rebooting and giving the system the idle time
required--nothing expected happened. I should have at-least seen
updates in the Window Update.log reflecting reboots and/or idle time
since I knew that was updating before.

After do this:
1) deleting the registry DebugType dword
2) rebooting,
3) re-applying the WinMe AU patch from Windows Update Catalog
4) rebooting

Windows Update.log started updating again. Here's a WU log snippet
that happened as I was typing this reply:

10:10:20 15:10:20 Success IUCTL Starting
2005-02-27 10:10:42 15:10:42 Success IUCTL Downloaded
iuident.cab from http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/v4/ to C:\Program
Files\WindowsUpdate\V4
2005-02-27 10:10:42 15:10:42 Success IUCTL Checking to
see if new version of Windows Update software available
2005-02-27 10:10:42 15:10:42 Success IUCTL Current
iuctl.dll version: 5.3.3790.13
2005-02-27 10:10:42 15:10:42 Success IUCTL Current
iuengine.dll version: 5.3.3790.13
2005-02-27 10:10:42 15:10:42 Success IUENGINE Starting
2005-02-27 10:10:42 15:10:42 Success IUENGINE Determining
machine configuration
2005-02-27 10:10:42 15:10:42 Success IUENGINE Determining
machine configuration
2005-02-27 10:10:46 15:10:46 Success IUENGINE Shutting down
2005-02-27 10:10:46 15:10:46 Success IUCTL Shutting down

Mike, I've been using the time stamp of AUstate.cfg (see
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;275645) as an
indicator as to weather or not AU is working. According to the The
Windows Update.log, AU appears to be semi-functional (for lack of
better words). Is it possible the MS description is not correct and
the time stamp of Austate.cfg only changes when the AU cp gets
changed? Just throwing out ideas here.