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Feeds not updating?

  • Artikkeli

We've received some reports of users noticing that their feeds subscription stop updating after upgrades. Our investigations show that these tend to occur after upgrades from one pre-release build of Windows Vista to another version.

If you're encountering this issue, first make sure that the feed URL is still valid by manually updating the feed (press F5 while viewing the feed in IE7). If no error shows up, then the following steps might help diagnose and fix the issue. Please let me know if they help/not help.

Note: The following steps are *not* addressing Outlook 2007's RSS support. If you are having issues with feeds in Outlook please refer to the Outlook blog.

Actions

  1. Check if Task Scheduler is running

    sc queryex schedule

    Look at the "STATE:" line, it should read "4 RUNNING" if it's not running, then start it

    sc start schedule

  2. Check if RSS Download Engine is running

    reg query HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Feeds /v SyncStatus

    Look at the "Status" line, it should read "0x01" or "0x1". If it isn't enabled, then enable it

    msfeedssync enable

  3. Check if task is corrupted

    schtasks /query | findstr /i "user_feed"

    Look for

    ERROR: The task image is corrupt or has been tampered with.

    ERROR: Task cannot be loaded: User_Feed_Synchronization-{..

    If corrupted, then delete and re-create the task

    msfeedssync disable

    msfeedssync enable

If your feeds are still not updating in the background after following these steps (you'll have to wait for the download interval to pass to make sure), please send us an email at teamrss[at]microsoft.com.

   
 

- Walter vonKoch

Program Manager

[4/2/2007] Updated step #2 that "0x01" and "0x1" are possible values. This are the same in this context.

[10/12/2007] Inserted a note that this post does *not* help with Outlook 2007, this post is focused on the Windows RSS Platform and applications built on top of the platform, for example: Internet Explorer 7, Vista Sidebar Feed Gadget, …

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 08, 2007
    Hi, Can you tell me why my feeds folders doesn't auto-close while changing from a feed to another feed (in another folder) ? This behavior happens on Windows Vista Ultimate (UAC ON), not on XP Pro. (BTW, another problem resolved by itself : folders title wasn't bold when unread feeds inside was) I usually have 160+ feeds in a bunch of folders and sub-folders and a little vbs i wrote to mark all feeds as read when needed. (recursively explore all feeds and folders with a Microsoft.FeedsManager object) TIA

  • Anonymous
    January 13, 2007
    Have the issue where folder title or feed title will not unbold although shows all read. also recently am not able to subscribe to feeds will get error subscribing to feed  error. is there anyway to update the store for feeds?? or run error correction as can be done in mail. ??   Running about 200 feeds

  • Anonymous
    January 15, 2007
    I had this issue in XP and I tried the above steps, but unfortunately it didn't help. However, I deleted the feeds folder and now it works properly (I'm sure I could've just deleted the FeedsStore file alone to fix the problem). Jean-Marc, (if you haven't already figured this out) just go to advanced settings and you'll see an option that says "close unused folders in History and Favorites" (which should really include "Feeds", eh?)

  • Anonymous
    January 15, 2007
    Thanks Nathanscott, Just the checkbox i searched for !

  • Anonymous
    January 16, 2007
    I get these errors: TaskName                             Next Run Time            Status ==================================== ======================== =============== User_Feed_Synchronization-{DC1FF25F- 04:10:00, 17/01/2007     Could not start User_Feed_Synchronization-{DC1FF25F- 04:10:00, 17/01/2007     Could not start

  • Anonymous
    January 20, 2007
    HI MY FEEDS HIS GOINE CAN U HALP M FOR THATS PROBLEM BECOUSE MY MSN HIS DASNT OPEN

  • Anonymous
    January 21, 2007
    So actually i tried the opposite: disable the feedssync. So i did C:>msfeedssync disable And verified C:>reg query HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftFeeds /v SyncStatus Which confirms it to be off KEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftFeeds   SyncStatus  REG_DWORD       0x0 However, after an hour and a half, i am still receiving events....(default schedule is set to 15 minutes) How long does it take fo the feeds engine to go and have a nap? (XP Home SP2)

  • Anonymous
    January 25, 2007
    Oops, I just commented about this over on IEBlog. XP Home SP2 - affected by what appears to be the same issue. I can still update manually, so it's not THAT bad, but still. Everything up to step 2 worked for me, however, I do not appear to have "schtasks" command - I suspect it might be Vista only? Anyway, I looked at my Scheduled tasks control panel applet (folder, actually), and can't see a feed-related entry. Any additional steps I should take to help you guys debug?

  • Anonymous
    February 01, 2007
    I am still running RC2, but even since I installed it, the .mp3 enclosures on my podcast RSS feeds aren't downloading with the error "(Download error - Blocked file type)" but I see no reason why these would be blocked.  I have tried what was mentioned on the blog but everything still checked out OK.  Thanks for any help.

  • Anonymous
    February 10, 2007
    I block outgoing, if I new what application to allow access for newsfeeds it would make life easier.

  • Anonymous
    February 10, 2007
    Glen, I seem to recall msfeedssync.exe does that for me. I'm not a Microsoft employee though - no warranties. As for the Microsoft guys here - have you been able to figure out what's been going on?

  • Anonymous
    February 12, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    February 13, 2007
    Govind, I've had the same problem you've had with Outlook, unfortunately I can't explain how to remove them completely from Outlook, because I think they're embedded in the main database file. However, I can tell you how to disable them from syncing: Either go to Tools -> Send/Receive -> Send/Receive Settings -> Define Send/Receive Groups... or just type Ctrl+Alt+S :) Then hit the Edit button for whichever group you're using (All Accounts is usually the only one), click on the RSS "Account" on the left, and uncheck the "Include RSS Feeds in the Send/Recieve group". If you're curious about where IE7 keeps the feeds, you can find them here: For XP: Documents and Settings%username%Local SettingsApplication DataMicrosoftFeeds For Vista: Users%username%AppDataLocalMicrosoftFeeds

  • Anonymous
    February 14, 2007
    @Govind - Is your Outlook connected to Exchange and do you have other computers with Outlook that might still download RSS? If that is so, you might want to double check that you have RSS turned off in all Outlook clients.

  • Anonymous
    February 14, 2007
    @Glen, TMaster is correct that msfeedssync.exe runs to download feeds in the background.

  • Anonymous
    February 14, 2007
    @TMaster - In the scheduled tasks control panel you need to enable viewing of hidden tasks. (Advanced | View Hidden Tasks) Please take a look at %windir%schedlgu.txt to see what the Results are for User_Feed_... jobs executing.

  • Anonymous
    February 14, 2007
    @DouglasH - Please try to delete the FeedsStore.feedsdb-ms file in %userprofile%Local SettingsApplication DataMicrosoftFeeds Then manually refresh a feed. Let us know if the feed and folder bolding works again.

  • Anonymous
    February 14, 2007
    @errors - can you also take a look at %windir%schedlgu.txt to see what the results are for the executions of User_Feed_... jobs?

  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2007
    Thanks for the tip of viewing hidden tasks! I can see it now. I looked at the .txt file, and no errors were reported as far as I can see - they all had a exit/return code of zero. Then again, since the start of this log file, I haven't seen any problems yet. This is probably due to my low current uptime, due to Windows updates and such. Once I notice my feeds are no longer updating, I'll try to remember this topic. Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2007
    Thanks TMaster and Walter, added msfeedssync.exe to outbound firewall rules and my news feed is now updating. It did not work straight away, may have started working after reboot. Thanks Guys.

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2007
    I ran into a problem where the feeds were not being updated in Outlook 2007. Using the steps above everything checked out OK, but what was odd is that the feeds were being updated in IE7 but not Outlook. Poking around I found that I had 120 feeds in IE7 while Outlook only showed 54 under tools - accounts - RSS feeds. There are two things I have modified with the RSS Feeds in Outlook 2007.

  1. I moved checking the RSS Feeds to a seperate Send/Receive group because * COUGH * COUGH * it appeared to be synchronous call and would render Outlook completely unusable while the feeds were being checked.
  2. I moved each feed to another folder below RSS Feeds based on the category, and use search folders to display all the feeds from that Folder/Category in one view. So each feed is now located two folders down from RSS Feeds. Ie. RSS Feeds - Category - Feed. I was actually able to resolve the problem, by going to and clicking on each individual feed folder in the Outlook navigation pane. Checking the count of feeds under the account tab showed 120. A couple of questions
  3. If a feed fails to refresh X number of times, does it get removed from the RSS Feed list in the accounts tab? I am behind a very restrive ISA server at work and wonder if after failing a couple of times it gets automatically (and silently) removed from the list.
  4. Is there any log file that I can review to see if there are any feeds that have failed to refresh? I will subscribe to the comments, but just in case my feeds break again you can ping me using my first name and the domain hai-q.com. Doug

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2007
    My feeds are still updating, and it appears the problem no longer occurs. I'm not yet sure, however. I'd only dare to make that statement once I have a uptime of at least two weeks. However, I did notice something that might've been able to explain the problem. In the past, one of my feeds (http://news.livejournal.com/data/rss) only updated right after visiting LiveJournal itself. I'm guessing this was some kind of cookie/expiration/authentication problem on their side. Ever since THIS feed started working again, I'm no longer seeing the problem. I hope this might point you in the right direction, though.

  • Anonymous
    February 21, 2007
    They stopped updating last night. I can see one error in the log file, but it's not in a user_feed*.job, but in a job that executes mobsync.exe. This isn't too relevant, or is it? I backed up the log file just to be sure. Apparently, the job file for feed syncing (user_feed_*.job) kept running even after the error occured, but then 2 hours and 36 minutes after the error entry, the job stops running, only giving exit codes of zero and no new errors. Once it stops, it STOPS, so it doesn't even start again without exiting. I followed the steps mentioned at the top of the page again, but as I said, I do not have the "schtasks" file or command. I just tried this again, however: msfeedssync disable msfeedssync enable and after waiting a while (for the job to run again), my feeds were updated again. Hope this info helps!

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    March 07, 2007
    Hi all, I thought my feeds were not updating originally, until I realised I had them only updating once a day. I clicked on feed properties on the RSS page in IE to change this. However something that annoys me about Vista RSS gadget, is that it rotates all the time, I would prefer it just to show the top 10 and have the top 10 fixed, I dont want to see 1-4 then 5-8 then 9-12, as I've probably already read them, just 1-10 and fixed. Any ideas how to do that?

  • Anonymous
    March 09, 2007
    Sometimes feeds are not updating because  FeedsStore.feedsdb-ms file got corrupted. In such cases you can try the following:    1. Close Internet Explorer.    2. Move FeedsStore.feedsdb-ms file to somewhere else on your local drive.    3. Back in IE, hit refresh so the file is recreated.    4. If things start working as expected,  delete the old FeedsStore.feedsdb-ms file.

  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2007
    More clues.... I noticed that my IE7 will not automatically update...even after trying all the items in this blog. However, RSS in Outlook 2007 seems to be updating OK. My IE7 problem started weeks before Office 2007 was installed.. Are they conficting? I don't think they are sharing the same db because I ended up with double entries in Outlook , after trying to deleting and recreating the feeds int IE7.

  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2007
    I have found that the schedule task return error and that results in the feed not updating. in one case reseting the default task user did the trick in the other case i had to recreate the feed.

  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2007
    I added few feeds to my Outlook 2007 and went to a vacation soon after that. My Outlook was completely disconnected from everything for at least two weeks. After I returned to regular life I realized my feeds are no longer updated. I opened RSS feeds settings (Tools -> Account settings -> RSS Feeds) and found out that all feeds I added before vacation are gone. They are just not in the list of feeds. All feeds I added after vacation are in place. Do those feeds expire if they are not updated or read in some time? Two weeks, perhaps? How can I disable this behavior if yes? Best wishes, Alex

  • Anonymous
    March 24, 2007
    Control Panle -> Scheduled Tasks -> Advanced -> View Hidden Tasks -> double click msfeedsyc. I found two run times on this, one was for every 5 minutes, one was a one time. I deleted the one-time as it didn't seem to have any effect. The 5 minute task had been set forward to a month in advance, which was caused by my setting the clock forward a while back to test some software. Check your 5 minute start date, make sure it's current. Also I was able to manually fire up the sync by running: "C:WINDOWSsystem32msfeedssync.exe sync"

  • Anonymous
    March 25, 2007
    Hi, you can force a global feeds refresh with a :    msfeedssync forcesync Bye

  • Anonymous
    March 25, 2007
    Hey, thanks, Jean-Marc! That might make for a cool Quick Launch shortcut.

  • Anonymous
    April 01, 2007
    Yup, the problem is here again. Apparently, Task Scheduler thinks the task is still running - the context menu offers an option to end the task. msfeedssync.exe is NOT in my process list, however. Renaming the FeedsStore.feedsdb-ms does NOT help (I assume there's no need to actually move the file, if I'm wrong, feel free to correct me). Need more info? Just ask. I'm still subscribed to the comments here, and it's in my benefit to have a fix for this problem, even though I've seen much worse bugs.

  • Anonymous
    April 05, 2007
    I had the same problem as Jim: Control Panle -> Scheduled Tasks -> Advanced -> View Hidden Tasks -> double click msfeedsyc. I found two run times on this, one was for every 5 minutes, one was a one time. I deleted the one-time as it didn't seem to have any effect. The 5 minute task had been set forward to a month in advance, which was caused by my setting the clock forward a while back to test some software. Check your 5 minute start date, make sure it's current. Also I was able to manually fire up the sync by running: "C:WINDOWSsystem32msfeedssync.exe sync" But i went to Control Panle -> Scheduled Tasks -> Advanced -> View Hidden Tasks -> double click msfeedsyc. like he said and i went to {127CC62B-6CF0-41A5-8E17-FE9EEAFE0C84} and changed it from when idle to Daily. then i left {F897AA24-BDC3-11D1-B85B-00C04FB93981} how it was.I left MP Scheduled Scan alone as well then went to User_Feed_Synchronization-{3EE9E509-51C4-40C9-A7CD-ACB246D7C4D2} and went to the Schedule Tab and found two run times on this, So i deleted both because had the year 2011 on them and then added a new one for today and now my Feeds are updating like normal again and it only took like 1 second or less before i noticed that what i did fixed my Feed problem. I have Windows XP Home Edition SP2 by the way too.

  • Anonymous
    April 06, 2007
    For the record, my start time is in the past, but updates to 15 minutes in the future when I manually refresh all feeds. (And of course I have the other schedule, which runs every 5 minutes as of midnight. Is Microsoft working on a fix? I'd love to know. By now, a lot of feedback and information has been given. :-)

  • Anonymous
    April 09, 2007
    I am having the RSS sync issue in Outlook 2007. I have tried everything on this page to no avail. If anyone has any other ideas, I'd love to hear them! Rob

  • Anonymous
    April 09, 2007
    I'm having the RSS sync issue in Outlook 2007 as well.  I have tried everything too... nothing helps.

  • Anonymous
    May 09, 2007
    "I get these errors: TaskName                             Next Run Time            Status ==================================== ======================== =============== User_Feed_Synchronization-{DC1FF25F- 04:10:00, 17/01/2007     Could not start User_Feed_Synchronization-{DC1FF25F- 04:10:00, 17/01/2007     Could not start " I also get such errors? What's wrong? Can you help?

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2007
    Same issue as TMaster, Matt and Jim, with the same symptoms (two schedules, one in the future, both every five minutes, neither seems to do anything). Anyone from MS care to comment?

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2007
    I just discovered that this may be related to changing your computer name. See http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2006/06/09/100440.aspx I haven't gotten a workaround yet, but now that I think about it, I did change my computer name around the time the feeds died for me.

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2007
    Ok, I really should have just done one post instead of three in the span of 5 minutes, but... If you change your computer name, feeds updating will die. The cause is the "run as" field in the scheduled process (control panel -> scheduled tasks -> advanced -> view hidden tasks -> User_Feed_Synchronization) No matter what I do, the run as field seems to want to revert to old_computer_nameusername Clearly this is no good since my old computer name isn't valid anymore. If I try to change it to new_computer_nameusername It reverts to the old name as soon as I press ok or apply. If anyone finds a fix, please post a comment on this blog.

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2007
    Ok, seems to be working now. Here's what I did. On the scheduled task, disable the checkbox "runonly if logged on", this allowed me to type in a password and change the computer name in a way that would stick. At some point in this, the task scheduler service became disabled. I restarted it as per the instructions at the top. I double checked the computer name in the scheduled task and it seems to have stuck. I re-enabled the "runonly if logged on" checkbox. Seems to work now. Anyways, the problem seems to be caused by issues with changing your computer name and some inability to change the "run as" field in the scheduled task to reflect the new name.

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2007
    Oh, and at some point in my ad-hoc procedure, I re-ran msfeedssync disable then msfeedssync enable, around the time that I renable the scheduler service. This seems to be what allowed the changed computer name to stick.

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2007
    Oh, and if this works for other people, someone owes me a beer.

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2007
    Sorry, Chris, but it appears my problem has a different cause. The "run as" computer name was already correct, and I don't remember changing it lately. Plus, feed syncing starts working again when I reboot. I'm thinking suspend-to-RAM may also be causing it for me - but I doubt that'd be the only cause of my problem.

  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2007
    Chris's solution worked perfectly for me. I changed my computer name while at school because of their network, and that must have been when it stopped working. I changed the name back to the original and everything is working perfectly again. Check up with me in about a year for that beer... Or I could always just give you the money now. ;-)

  • Anonymous
    May 30, 2007
    My feeds were not updating & when I tried: schtasks /query | findstr /i "user_feed" I got: User_Feed_Synchronization-{6F501CF9- 08:51:00, 5/30/2007      Could not start I went to the Scheduler, showed hidden tasks, & it said it was unable to start the User_Feed_Synchronization. I went into the properties & changed the schedule. It prompted me for credentials & then ran properly. Subsequent changes to the schedule did not require me to re-enter credentials, so maybe the task just needed credentials in order to run.

  • Anonymous
    May 31, 2007
    I occasionally have the problem with my feeds not updating. A guaranteed fix for me is to visit the website URL that I am subscribed to in IE7, exit the browser, and outlook 2007 will then refresh the feed and get any posts it should have gotten in recent days. TMaster had a similar comment earlier in the thread - but no one else has noted the same workaround. please fix this soon MS....

  • Anonymous
    June 14, 2007
    It seems to close INSTANTLY. After I right-click and select refresh all, I see the msfeedssync.exe app run for only a second. Here's what I'm getting in my task scheduler log: "User_Feed_Synchronization-{----}.job" (msfeedssync.exe) Finished 6/3/2007 4:55:01 AM Result: The task completed with an exit code of (1). Please do help.

  • Anonymous
    June 15, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    July 05, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    July 12, 2007
    Thanks Nathanscott, Just the checkbox i searched for !

  • Anonymous
    July 27, 2007
    The IE7 seems not to update, also does the new XP have a repair program on the disk as I tried to repair some corrupt file and it instantly reinstalls.

  • Anonymous
    July 29, 2007
    Very good . You are doing a great job.

  • Anonymous
    August 27, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    September 11, 2007
    Feeds jammed at Sat Sept 1 for MSNBC feeds, did the checklist, checked everything. Very frustrating, this same stuff has worked forever in firefox.

  • Anonymous
    September 19, 2007
    Just the checkbox i searched for !

  • Anonymous
    September 26, 2007
    I just hope that this will lead to continued developments in RSS.

  • Anonymous
    September 28, 2007
    I am having this problem.  On IE, I see all the feeds with a zillion entries.  In Outlook 2007 I see nothing for quite some time. I came here, but I"m not sure where I'm supposed to put those actions as described in the original post here. Please advise.

  • Anonymous
    October 12, 2007
    got this error: User_Feed_Synchronization-{0578B29E- 09:57:00, 10/12/2007     Could not start ran these: msfeedssync disable msfeedssync enable then didn't receive an error: User_Feed_Synchronization-{0578B29E- 09:56:00, 10/12/2007 so hopefully it's ok.

  • Anonymous
    November 15, 2007
    Great help on this.  My feeds quit working after a MS patch.  Now its working fine.

  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    December 27, 2007
    I'm trying to get my feeds to download from http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510075 I get the following error Download error - Blocked file type This is one of many sites I'm trying to get that give me the exact error.

  • Anonymous
    January 10, 2008
    I'm trying all the advices, but it still not work for me. In the "Run as" I find "company namemy name" that is the user I am logged in. If I try anything to change it, I was not able to do. Could it be that I'm accessing Internet through a firewall?

  • Anonymous
    January 18, 2008
    I had this issue in XP and I tried the above steps, but unfortunately it didn't help. However, I deleted the feeds folder and now it works properly (I'm sure I could've just deleted the FeedsStore file alone to fix the problem). Jean-Marc, (if you haven't already figured this out) just go to advanced settings and you'll see an option that says "close unused folders in History and Favorites" (which should really include "Feeds", eh?)

  • Anonymous
    January 18, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    January 18, 2008
    Chris's solution worked perfectly for me. I changed my computer name while at school because of their network, and that must have been when it stopped working. I changed the name back to the original and everything is working perfectly again. Check up with me in about a year for that beer... Or I could always just give you the money now. ;-)

  • Anonymous
    February 05, 2008
    Why is this so difficult to built within the gadget. Is it for Microsoft so logical to put the settings of a news feed in IE to get it work in a gadget? For so far I know Vista is on the market for almost a year.   Shouldn't it be fixed by now...??

  • Anonymous
    February 11, 2008
    In IE 7, I found the feeds not updating. Everything checked out, but I found that hovering over a feed in the feed list did not show the last updated time. So, I started a separate IE 7 window, and the status DID show up for each feed, and it started updating. Now, in the prior IE 7 window, it does show BOLD for all the feeds that were updated, but again, hovering does not show the last updated time. It seems not showing the status and not doing the update are related. Just starting a new IE 7 window worked. But it's annoying, still.

  • Anonymous
    February 12, 2008
    We recently started having RSS feeds being setup in IE7 but not passing into Outlook 2007 SP1 on XP SP2 machines.  We are also running Exchange 2007 SP1.  This seems to work fine for an admin but anybody with a roaming profile has this issue.

  • Anonymous
    February 20, 2008
    Step 3 fixed the issue. The task image was corrupted.

  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2008
    Why don't the folders close when changing feeds. Shouldn't it be automatic?

  • Anonymous
    March 22, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    March 24, 2008
    Here's the reason my feeds stopped updating: I had accidentally set my system date ahead a month (meant to change the hour for DST) so a bunch of feeds were marked with the incorrect date. Brian

  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2008
    If my blog been marked as security risk by Microsoft, can anyone tell me if this can be cleared??

  • Anonymous
    April 10, 2008
    Rc2 refresh seems to break sync'ing after a resume..

  • Anonymous
    April 15, 2008
    This is probably not the right place to post this, but I've searched the net for a couple hours and haven't seen anything like the problem I'm having with the Feed Headlines Sidebar Gadget.  The fly-out isn't working properly most of the time when the Gadget is docked. I can click to make the fly-out actuate, but the headline link isn't "clickable" and the scrollbars are frozen.  I can tell if a fly-out is locked up like this by the color: if it's sort of a blueish / gray background, it's frozen; if it's a white background, good to go.  Very aggravating.  Sometimes the Gadget will start working properly if I drag it onto the Desktop,the push it back into the Sidebar.  More often than not, it will start flaking out again.  I have uninstalled / reinstalled the Gadget.  I have deleted if from the  Gallery, then reinstalled using the "Restore gadgets installed with Windows" button on the Sidebar Properties dialog.  No joy.  Help!

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2008
    Excellent!  #1 and #2 was working, but I had to perform #3 - and now it works. Thanks for nice post.

  • Anonymous
    May 26, 2008
    Great help on this.  My feeds quit working after a MS patch.  Now its working fine.

  • Anonymous
    June 02, 2008
    I am very thankful of reading this text but for me this code is little difficuld

  • Anonymous
    June 22, 2008
    Same problem. msfeedssync disable /enable worked. BUT. I also get "task image corrupt or has been tampered with" errors for reminders.<username>. schtasks /query | findstr /i "user_reminders" returns ERROR: The task image is corrupt or has been tampered with. So what string do I prepend to disable to fix it?

  • Anonymous
    August 04, 2008
    Great article, keep up the good work

  • Anonymous
    August 19, 2008
    well, that I found the article, because are very important information. Finally diagnose and fix the problem

  • Anonymous
    September 11, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    September 11, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    November 30, 2008
    Wow, thanks.  This fixed my problem with a corrupt User_Feed.  It was annoying that the feeds wouldn't update, and the computer kept turning on to try and run the scheduled task.  Thanks for this fix!

  • Anonymous
    December 06, 2008
    So, it's december 2008 now and I still get the same bug in a week old fully updated Vista. This is... well... bad. /p

  • Anonymous
    January 17, 2009
    Thanks for that, I had the "ERROR: The task image is corrupt or has been tampered with. ERROR: Task cannot be loaded: User_Feed_Synchronization-{.." problems. Disabling and re-enabling the feed sorted it.

  • Anonymous
    February 05, 2009

  1. Close IE
  2. Open task manager and end the task: msfeedssync
  3. Goto your Windows Temp folder and delete all the files that are named: ~DF*.TMP
  4. Restart IE The problem apparently happens when IE crashes and the temporary feed files dont get deleted from the temp folder. Normally when you exit IE these files are supposed to get removed.

  • Anonymous
    February 21, 2009
    Wow, this has been going on ever since I got Vista in early 2007.  Still have to disable/enable msfeedssync.  I have an easier solution: Get a Mac.

  • Anonymous
    March 31, 2009
    Done all that and tried a thousand other solutions. Feeds are not updating after sleep or shutdown. One ease, hahaha, way to get'em started again is to manually run the task from taskscheduler. That gets them going again. You shouldn't have to do that It's about time you M$ guys take this seriously.

  • Anonymous
    March 31, 2009
    Done all that and tried a thousand other solutions. Feeds are not updating after sleep or shutdown. One ease, hahaha, way to get'em started again is to manually run the task from taskscheduler. That gets them going again. You shouldn't have to do that It's about time you M$ guys take this seriously.

  • Anonymous
    April 02, 2009
    I tried the steps outlined here and it did not work. The only thing that ever repairs this for me is logging out and back in or rebooting. I have this happen on a Vista machine and on an XP Home machine.

  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    June 01, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    July 17, 2009
    Same problem feeds wont update, I try the enable and disable and still receive the "ERROR: The task image is corrupt or has been tampered with" message. I have a better chance of finding Hoffa than finding a solution to this problem. I also hate the fact that you have to search for answers in forums and can not contact MS directly for a solution.

  • Anonymous
    July 22, 2009
    It's all working smoothly for me, no problems since the original outage.

  • Anonymous
    September 14, 2009
    Im using IEAK 7 to customize IE 7 on our vista image. When installing the customize IE 7 settings package on  a new system, the RSS side bar stops working and shows the error message "The Internet Explorer Feedstore is unavailable". If I go into IE and load the RSS feed, then select the RSS feed in the side bar gadget, the feed will then work. Is there a way to fix this? This happens for every new profile created on the system.

  • Anonymous
    October 14, 2009
    my computer just got it so tell me why microsoft is not updating i need to know cause nothing on the computer is not working

  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2009
    Performed Actions 1, 2 & 3...all OK but feeds still broken since update in Oct.  What to check now?

  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2009
    same here (almost xmas now!) my feeds are about 24hrs late, and update works only manyally through ie

  • Anonymous
    January 07, 2010
    its really helpfull...thanks friends

  • Anonymous
    August 06, 2010
    Woww...... Gud post. Now I have solved my problem which I was facing since 1 year. Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous
    February 12, 2011
    I am using IE8.  I was viewing RuneScape.com feeds, and they just stopped working.  The feed works, but when you click on it, it turns gray. I have to use the feed in google reader now :(

  • Anonymous
    December 18, 2012
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