MiKTeX and proTeXt ⇒ Problem with a package that tries to update continuously

[eggmanneo]

Hi I recently updated Miktex, and now when I compile with PDFLaTeX using WinEdt, I get this message in the compiling command prompt.

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("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\generic\oberdiek\ifvtex.sty")
======================================================================
starting package maintenance...
installation directory: "C:\Documents and Settings\...Data\MiKTeX\2.8"
package repository: http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/CTAN/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/
lightweight database digest: 6c47647a07bd01584d2d7cfab473d95a
going to download 169138 bytes
going to install 4 file(s) (1 package(s))
downloading http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/CTAN/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/ifxetex.tar.lzma...
169138 bytes, 192.29 KB/Sec
pdflatex.exe: Invalid argument.
pdflatex.exe: Data: ifxetex
======================================================================

("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\generic\ifxetex\ifxetex.sty")

It does this everytime I compile. In the end it compiles fine, but this updating seems to really slow down the compiling process. For some reason it seems like it can't update this package. Does anybody know a fix for this? Is there a way to disable automatic updating when you compile?

[localghost]

Try a compilation on the command line. Consider to do a full MiKTeX installation. And by the way, there is MiKTeX 2.9 as the most recent version.


Thorsten