How to manually start windows update

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How can you manually begin Windows XP's Windows Update without entering to http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate with IE?

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From command line, force detect with: To troubleshoot machines updating from my WSUS server. I am not sure if it will apply to normal online updating but it is worth mentioning. Troubleshoot update issues with this logfile: If you are using Windows …

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