How broken is windows update for W7 users?

Kronos, Ok sorry you had used the rollup (there is so much discussion on 100's of patches, so I though no one was using it - it is making life easier)

What is the role of WSUS Offline Update ? I took the patch from the catalog put in on a usb stick and was then ready to go - is this 'offline update' itself causing the problem ?

Kronos said:

That did not work for

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This doesn't tell us anything. :/

KIA said:

This doesn't tell us anything. :/

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Edited original post.

so has anyone found a decent method for this to work yet ?

Just looked at the documentation for the WSUS Offline Update tool, maybe someone can explain ? but seems like an automated tool where you cannot dictate which updates you want, and the install order;
so compared to Kia's instructions seems risky, against getting the few patches from the MS catalog, putting them on a usb and then manuallly sequencing the install.
(maybe the documentation does it an injustice ?)

all we need in this thread is the simpliest steps to just update windows.

if people know what works best could you please put the steps in simple form of how to make it update with no waffle thanks.

I have reinstalled Windows 7 on 3 PC's since Windows 10 came out and it has got steadily worse trying to get the updates. In fact on the third PC after spending over 24 hours trying to update the PC using every tip here and elsewhere I gave up and installed Windows 10.

I do not think there is a definitive way to do this now. This is something Microsoft has engineered in it's relentless push to get us all to move to windows 10.

>Dg< what kia said in post #32 plus the roll-up patch worked for me too -
however from the problems folks are having I think these may not be detailed enough
do they seem reasonable to you ? (my suspicion is that burning the media is where some folks have problems)

try this

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...n/f39a65fa-9d10-42e7-9bc0-7f5096b36d0c?auth=1

just done that after a day of nothing normally and windows updates have started after a few minutes.

really easy to follow.could save many a long time.hope it helps.

just to update this has worked and now the 200 odd updates have come through.easiest solution i found.

Ok that is the same as Kia's post from a month earlier (they used older *605 not *608) & provides direct links for the patches, but does not discuss the aspect of
- clean install first from the burned sp1 iso
- use of the roll-up patch, rather than the 200 patches loaded, those 200 include telemetry/spyware plus the 10 nagware (I assume that since 10 is no longer easily available that the 10 nagware is de-activated)

spyware theres nothing in it lol.

I was having the same issue, so much so it made updating Windows 7 almost impossible.

I stopped the Windows Update service, installed KB3172605, restarted and updates were displayed after just a few minutes.

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try this

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...n/f39a65fa-9d10-42e7-9bc0-7f5096b36d0c?auth=1

just done that after a day of nothing normally and windows updates have started after a few minutes.

really easy to follow.could save many a long time.hope it helps.

just to update this has worked and now the 200 odd updates have come through.easiest solution i found.

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Thanks for this link, followed it and it worked, after I restarted the Windows update Service anyway.

Followed advice here but main thing that fixed it for me was downloading from MS the update which addressed windows update being stuck finding updates. I also stopped and restarted the service and then it found all the updates and installed normally.

Link:

http://superuser.com/questions/951960/windows-7-sp1-windows-update-stuck-checking-for-updates

This seems to work well.

http://wu.krelay.de/en/

~>Dg<~ said:

try this

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...n/f39a65fa-9d10-42e7-9bc0-7f5096b36d0c?auth=1

just done that after a day of nothing normally and windows updates have started after a few minutes.

really easy to follow.could save many a long time.hope it helps.

just to update this has worked and now the 200 odd updates have come through.easiest solution i found.

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Thank you for this link.

I have about ten pc's to rebuild, this saved me hours of shouting.

Wished i'd found this thread a couple of weeks back.

I had to deploy a couple of Win7 VM's at work and for the life of me i couldn't get them to update. I tried a number of manual updates and offline installers. I did eventually get it to work, so i've now converted the VM to a template for any future use.

But my god did MS make it difficult.

~>Dg<~ said:

try this

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...n/f39a65fa-9d10-42e7-9bc0-7f5096b36d0c?auth=1

just done that after a day of nothing normally and windows updates have started after a few minutes.

really easy to follow.could save many a long time.hope it helps.

just to update this has worked and now the 200 odd updates have come through.easiest solution i found.

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Same as others, this method has worked for me. Thnx Dg

and were back to knackered again this month, just endlessly checking now.

Yeah... been checking for over 3hrs on my PC now. Daft.