The root cause of the problem is in the feeds, not on the PC.

I had the opportunity to try these feeds on another PC and found exactly the
same behaviour as on my PC.

I then found some other Microsoft feeds, e.g. MSDN Visual Basic, and these
worked fine, unlike all 21 of my Microsoft feeds that prompted my original
post.

It seems that Microsoft no longer provides any content in the "Most Recent
KBs for xxx" series. A pity: I found them very useful. Links to these feeds
are in place, and it is possible to subscribe to them without any apparent
errors, but the feeds have no content (other than the feed title, of course).

JPL

"Gistcheckin" wrote:

> See This Thread
> http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?&query=RSS+updates+don't+work&lang=en &cr=us&guid=&sloc=en-us&dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general&p= 1&tid=22f9ab8d-84dd-47ac-8e96-cfccfcf136dc&mid=22f9ab8d-84dd-47ac-8e96-cfccfcf136dc
> --
> Gistcheckin
>
>
> "JPL" wrote:
>
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Yes. Yes. Yes. (Please see original post.)
> >
> > I do not wish to perform a browser reset for something that works properly
> > in almost all circumstances, and a System Restore is absolutely out of the
> > question.
> >
> > What is the difference between all Microsoft RSS feeds (none of them works)
> > and all other RSS feeds (all of them work)?
> >
> > JPL
> >
> > "Gistcheckin" wrote:
> >
> > > Are RSS Feed Settings the same. Tools>Internet Options>Content
> > > Tab>Feeds>Settings Button
> > > Is update Automatically enabled?
> > >
> > > Try Browser Reset - Tools>Internet Options>Advanced Tab>Reset Button
> > >
> > > If none of the above works, try a System Restore to a date prior to the
> > > malfunction issue.
> > > --
> > > Gistcheckin
> > >
> > >
> > > "JPL" wrote:
> > >
> > > > My Microsoft RSS feeds, (e.g. Most Recent KBs for Access 2003), subscribed
> > > > via the RSS Feed Product Index on
> > > > http://support.microsoft.com/selecti...spx?target=rss
> > > > are not updating, although all my other feeds are working correctly.
> > > >
> > > > I deleted all the files and folders in
> > > > ...\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Feeds
> > > > and then resubscribed to all the feeds. No change. All the feeds (i.e. all
> > > > the Microsoft ones that do not work and all the others that update correctly)
> > > > use the default feed settings.
> > > >
> > > > These feeds used to work, I think until late May this year, but now none of
> > > > them does.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas what the problem might be and how I can fix it?
> > > >
> > > > JPL