Hello,
On Windows XP Pro with SP3 the updater doesn't do anything past "Determining system's properties...", it's been running all day long now.
What I'd like to know is how I'd go about debugging this, e.g. can I just place an "echo on" in a cmd script to see what's happening? Should I use process monitor? Or has anyone seen this problem before and know what's going on? That would be neat :)
Perhaps it's trying to use WMI and it somehow doesn't respond, then I could use wbemtest to reproduce the problem outside of wsusoffline. If anyone knows what properties it's trying to determine, maybe there's a way to find them manually and fill them in somewhere so this step can be skipped. Anyone?
Much thanks to everyone, this is actually the first time I've had trouble using wsusoffline (and its predecessor c't offline update). I simply ran the downloader, selecting the appropriate Windows version and unselecting service packs (since SP3 was already installed). Windows Update has never been run on this particular install (so it's ActiveX component hasn't been updated either).