How broken is windows update for W7 users?
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Ive just set mine to Never and rebooted, just to stop the bugger endlessley checking again, and hogging my memory.
Its funny, as when i finally managed to get last months down, it was lightning at checking, finding and installing any.
EDIT: They could be bundling all the telemetry updates in with the rollups.
Its funny, as when i finally managed to get last months down, it was lightning at checking, finding and installing any.
EDIT: They could be bundling all the telemetry updates in with the rollups.
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Oh great, so we no longer have a choice of what ones we want to allow onto our pc's. That will be the telemetry updates forced on everyone then.
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Some are saying it has changed on Win 7.
I reloaded Windows 7 onto a laptop recently and it was stuck in checking for updates forever.
Heres what I did to sort it -
Go to control panel, system and security, windows update, change settings...and... in the drop down box, set it to never install updates. Restart computer. Ignore any warnings about windows update being turned off. Then first install
KB3020369
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3020369
then install KB3172605:
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3172605
Restart your computer, go back to control panel, system and security, windows update, and turn on windows updates (to whatever delivery option you prefer). Then click "check for updates".
After 15 mins checking for updates it found them all and started downloading.
Heres what I did to sort it -
Go to control panel, system and security, windows update, change settings...and... in the drop down box, set it to never install updates. Restart computer. Ignore any warnings about windows update being turned off. Then first install
KB3020369
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3020369
then install KB3172605:
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3172605
Restart your computer, go back to control panel, system and security, windows update, and turn on windows updates (to whatever delivery option you prefer). Then click "check for updates".
After 15 mins checking for updates it found them all and started downloading.
Thanks it worked straight away this way
I've actually taken the frustrated step of disabling Windows Update on both my PC and server 
Hear server's fans kicking in > log into server > oh quelle surprise, svchost has been using 50% CPU for hours and never finds any updates.
Hear server's fans kicking in > log into server > oh quelle surprise, svchost has been using 50% CPU for hours and never finds any updates.
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For anyone wanting to block the Telemetry, SpyBot Anti-Beacon has been updated to now include Win7/8/8.1
https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/
Yeah im still set on Never for the time being, as you just don't know what they are going to be installing on your computer now, plus theres the updates that break your OS, how are you going to get them off when they are all lumped together now.
https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/
I've actually taken the frustrated step of disabling Windows Update on both my PC and server
Hear server's fans kicking in > log into server > oh quelle surprise, svchost has been using 50% CPU for hours and never finds any updates.
Yeah im still set on Never for the time being, as you just don't know what they are going to be installing on your computer now, plus theres the updates that break your OS, how are you going to get them off when they are all lumped together now.
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I actually turned it back on last night for a few hours... 50% CPU usage for the duration.. and no updates.
Back to off again
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Just cleaned my father in laws laptop and bless you, worked straight away.
reinstalled win 7 on another pc today.this method worked perfectly.all updates found within minutes.
reinstalled win 7 on another pc today.this method worked perfectly.all updates found within minutes.
Same here, just got rid of Win10 today on my main machine and gone back to W7 and it worked immediately. Thats 3 out of 3 machines now.
Microsoft issued this advice a couple of weeks ago : https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3200747
Yeah its a shame they can't just fix the underlying issue rather than just leaving people that won't go and research this type of stuff hanging.