apple software update in windows help!!!!

To my knowledge it was always checked for the SU.exe file( I haven't changed it myself at any stage - I would have never before had any need to). It is also that way on the windows 7 32 bit system at my work(I didn't check my Win Vista 32 Laptop to see the status of the privliges on that file as of yet). I'm always logged in as adminstrator and was at the time of the initial itunes/quicktime/safari installs - possibly the status of the user at the time of install dictaes whether the ultimate exe file has admin priviliges???? Just a guess.

Apple Support Communities is having "scheduled maintenance" done at 10PM tonight. Who knows, maybe they will use this maintenance down time to set a few things straight and the ASU will be magically working tomorrow. I know it's a long shot, but one can always hope.

I have been reading these communities for a few days now, because I have had problems with my apple software update showing up blank, yet telling me I could select select an update from a list to download. Yesterday, I noticed that iTunes wasn't available for download anymore, but today it was back up.

I just redownloaded itunes, without uninstalling, and had it repair my version. After that was done my software updater worked on the first pass telling me there was no new updates. I am fairly confident that it worked correctly becuase this time, there was actual movement on the status bar. I have also manually downloaded all of the updates for all of my software for my apple products working on my Win 7 x64 system.

If anything changes I will report back, but so far so good.

ASU is still not working for me

Good news, the ASU seems to be working again(starting today for me and for the past few days I've seen positive reports from other places on planet earth). I've only been able to see this on my computer at work(running Win 7 32) but it definitely IS working as it should. It loads, starts the appropriate green bar search progress, and then finds anything on my computer that needs to be either updated or installed - I know this because I do not have Safari installed on my work computer and it is now 10 for 10 in loading and finding and telling me that I should download and install Safari 5.1.7(everything else on my work computer from Apple is already installed and fully updated). Hopefully, when I get home, I will find that my desktop and laptop are also working as they should. It appears it was a problem from Apple's end this entire time. As others have speculated in other similar threads; Apple most likely "fixed" this on their end about 3 days ago, but has been slowly dispersing the "fix" throughout their worldwide update servers. Some people were lucky enough to have the servers in their neck of the woods fixed earlier then others. Hopefully, as Apple finally matriculates the fix to ALL their update servers, everyone will be back up and running smoothly with their Apple Software Updater. If the ASU on your machine is still wonky, just hold out for a bit longer; It should be up and working any day now.

When I went home on Saturday 6/30/12, I found that both my Desktop(Windows 7 64bit) and my laptop(Windows Vista 32bit) were back up with the Apple Software Updater and running perfectly. So in my neck of the woods(Eastern Pennsylvania in the USA), everything seems to have been "fixed" by Apple. I know how frustrating it is waiting but it should, hopefully, be up and running for everyone quite soon.

I don't know what is going on now. It was working perfectly for 4 days. Now it's back to doing the same old dysfunctional idiocy. Apple BETTER get its act together or make an announcement that they are having an issue. This is absolutely intolerable!!!!! it looks like a Windows Tablet or Google tablet for me in the future.

Looks like it may be an issue with their CDN not having proper catalog (or not giving out proper catalog?) on all service points. By luck i found one that worked, 63.80.242.43. Update your hosts file to include

"63.80.242.43 swcatalog.apple.com"

For those of you rightly paranoid by adding an IP to your hosts file from a forum post on the internet, http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-63-80-242-0-1/pft will show it is Akamai (valid CDN).

After updating this locally, SoftwareUpdate.exe was able to work without issue every time i closed and reopened.

To udpate your hosts file in windows:

1. Open command prompt (if windows 7/vista, right click and open as administrator).

2. Type in "notepad c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" (without the quotes).

3. Enter in a new line on the bottom of the file with "63.80.242.43 swcatalog.apple.com" (again, no quotes).

4. Save. -- If you get an error about it being open already or you not having permission to save, you likely did not run as admin.

5. Run software updater.

Hope this helps others out there!

The above workaround by bbolling solved the issue for me! Thanks!

this worked perfectly!

after all this hassle its ridiculous that apple are slacking in their support.

SORT IT OUT!

Great find, bbolling! Still (one and half months later!) Apple hasn't fixed this simple DNS thing! Unbelievable...