Well I guess mine actually wants to obey that setting, LoL. Sure it updates every 4 hours just fine, but after 72 hours it stops and I have to turn off and turn back on automatic feed update to enable it for the next 3 days.
"PA Bear" <PABearMVP******.com> wrote in message news:Ow0NdIStHHA.3400@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
Ah, gotcha now!

<QP>
BTW, if you want to see how your RSS feeds are going, go to Control Panel,
Scheduled Tasks. Turn on the option to view hidden tasks (Advanced menu)
and you will be able to see the User Feed Synchronization task.
</QP>
Source: http://www.ie-vista.com/breaking_news.html

Now that I've enabled Hidden Tasks, I see that I have the same setting in
Settings tab. However, my RSS Update schedule default is "every 4 hours"
and I do not see the behavior you report.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org


Darnell 0216 wrote:
> Well for some reason, for as long as I've had IE7 and used it's RSS, it
> has
> been this way for me in XP SP2. I've even attached a screenshot of my task
> settings, where by default it's checked to stop after 72 hours.
> "PA Bear" <PABearMVP******.com> wrote in message
> news:OjIv4TRtHHA.3556@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Cannot reproduce. I might reboot my WinXP SP2 machines twice a month:
> My
> RSS Feeds are checked without fail every 4 hours, exactly as I've
> configured
> it.
> --
> ~PA Bear
>
> Darnell 0216 wrote:
> > Yeah by design the task is set to run for 72 hours and then stop. I'm
> one
> > who sometimes runs for a week or more without rebooting and found out
> by
> > looking at the task it's designed to stop at that point. Because of
> this I
> > have to make my way to the Feeds setting in IE to stop then restart it
> so
> > it'll run for another 3 days.
> > "PA Bear" <PABearMVP******.com> wrote in message
> > news:eGhOdJQtHHA.412@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> > How have you determined that Feeds Update task behaves like this?
> > --
> > ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> > MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
> > AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org
> >
> > Darnell 0216 wrote:
> > > By chance when was the last time you rebooted? 'Feeds Update' task
> is
> > run
> > > for the first 72 hours your computer is running. If you haven't
> > rebooted
> > > in
> > > a while, this is why.
> > >
> > > "Jonathan P. Handby" <jphandby********.com> wrote in message
> > > news:22F9AB8D-84DD-47AC-8E96-CFCCFCF136DC@microsoft.com...
> > > About a week to two weeks ago, all my feeds in my IE7 stopped
> > updating
> > > automatically. I don't know if this is connected to the
> installation
> > of
> > > Windows Live Mail (ex desktop/client) which also has feeds
> managed
> > in
> > > it.
> > >
> > > However I can manually update the feeds but I don't want to do
> that
> > with
> > > all
> > > my feeds over and over. Is there a fix for this which doesn't
> mean
> > me
> > > having
> > > to reinstall IE 7 on my windows XP home machine?
> > > MY IE7 version is 7.0.5730.11
> > >
> > > - Jon