I'm having a major problem with automatic updates on XP service pack 3. A dialog box appears in the system tray telling me that my computer is at risk because automatic updates are not turned on. It further says that I need to go to the Security Center and turn on Automatic Updates. When I attempt to do this, another dialog box appears saying that Automatic Updates can not be started from the Security Center and I should go to the Control Panel, click Systems / Automatic Updates and turn on the Automatic Updates from there. When I do this, the Automatic Updates are shown to be on and that does not work. When I go to the Windows Update page, it says that the site cannot continue because Automatic Updates is not enabled. It also says that two other items need to be enabled for the Automatic Update website to function. It gives me a list of things to do to be sure that these services are enabled properly. For Automatic Updates, it says to go to start / run and type in "services.msc" then to click on Automatic Updates in the list of services. Then it says to change the "service type" to "automatic" then press the "start" button to enable the service. When I do this a dialog box appears saying the following: "Could not start the automatic update service on local computer.Error 1058 The service cannot be started because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it." I've been trying to fix this for several days now and I'm getting nowhere. Can someone please help me with this? Thanks, larry
