How to Fix RSS Feeds Not Updating Properly in IE7 or IE8?

If your RSS feeds re not updating properly in Internet Explorer 7 or Internet Explorer 8 (most probably in Windows Vista or Windows 7), there are couple of things you can try.

Problem Type1: Feed Synchronization Issue

Fir and fore most verify if the feed synchronization is corrupted. Here is how you do it.

• Open a command prompt (Click stat, type cmd.exe and click on the cmd.exe to opena command shell)
• Type in the following command

schtasks /query | findstr /i "user_feed

If you see error in the output then your feed synchronization is broken.

Errors look something similar to

ERROR: The task image is corrupt or has been tampered with.
ERROR: Task cannot be loaded: User_Feed_Synchronization-{.

To fix the Feed synchronization issue, run the following commands at the command prompt.

msfeedssync disable

msfeedssync enable

This should take care of the feed sync problem.

Problem Type2: Corrupted RSS feed database

If you do not see any errors in the Feed Synchronization then the problem might be with the Feed Database.  To fix this issue. lets start with exporting all out feeds so that we don’t have re-subscribe again.

• Open IE, and click Alt key to get to the menu bar.
• Go to the File menu and click “Import and Export .”
• Select Export to a file and click next
• Select feeds and click next.
• Export the OPML file to some place where you remember.

Now lets delete the feed databases. Close all IE windows.

• Browse to the following folder C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Feeds (Do not for to replace YourUserName with your actual user name).
• Select all the contents in the folder and delete them.

Now, lets import our saved feeds. Open IE and go to File menu (Click Alt button to get the menu bar)

• Select Import And Export. and click next
• Select Import from a file and click next
• Check the feeds box and click next
• Select the previously saved OPML file and click next.

You should be all done, and hopefully your feeds are now working as expected.