W7 Update

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Right....I officially hate this thing.

Have not had a successful update since march and no matter what guide I follow on the internet or quick fix I install I cannot get it to update.

Are MS trying to force me to update to W10? or is there something I can do to get this pig updated?
 
Yes. Based on the evidence relating to the recent decline in successful installations of Windows Updates, at least 95% of people are unable to install any essential updates whatsoever. Paired with the fact that the only update you are currently actually able to install using Windows Update is the GWX malware, I have no other choice but to assume that Windows Update, as found in Windows 7, is now basically a malware deployment tool. Its only purpose is to deploy the GWX malware.

There is potential for other uses too. After analysis of some computers, which were rendered useless due to high CPU usage from processes relating to Windows Updates, I found that the Windows Update Process had actually read over 100s of GBs of data.

I recommend monitoring the Windows Update processes not only for high CPU usage, but also for high I/O utilisation. You can do this with task manager but you need to manually display the columns for "I/O reads" and "I/O writes" by going to View>Select Columns.
 
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As per the other thread was trying to update an old laptop earlier today and no matter what it won't update short of hand feeding it updates manually one at a time.
 
I had this same problem when I did a fresh Win7 install from scratch in order to upgrade to Win10 on a machine.

The suggestion here is what I found to work for me:
http://superuser.com/a/1022204

It resolved my issues after the fresh Win7 SP1 install - that Windows Update was broke and wouldn't find anything.
> Install SP1
> KB-3138612 (install then disconnect from network/internet).
> Install SUR Tool.
> Reboot and reconnect to network/internet.
> Retry Windows Update (sure this took me a while, but did get there and worked).
 
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Tried it (did everything suggested in the other thread) - though I only left it for about an hour still the same problem.
 
I have to say it seems fine for me.

Assume you have a legitimate licence? I've seen it before when PC's have used a blacklisted key (or the key's fallen off for whatever reason) it's caused similar effects.

I have a few PC's on different version (7/8.1/10) and they're all updating fine.



M.
 
@OP https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18730612 has a load of different possible fixes.

m4cc45 said:
I have to say it seems fine for me.

Assume you have a legitimate licence? I've seen it before when PC's have used a blacklisted key (or the key's fallen off for whatever reason) it's caused similar effects.

I have a few PC's on different version (7/8.1/10) and they're all updating fine.



M.
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Yup laptop I posted about is a Toshiba with embedded bios/firmware key - but had the same kind of thing to one extent or another with various Windows 7 devices lately.

Disco_P said:
Have you tried using the "convenience update"

Instructions here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/255435/how...l-at-once-with-microsofts-convenience-rollup/
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Haven't tried that myself keep meaning to DL it incase it turned out to be useful.
 
That "convenience" update only installed a single small update on my laptop. My wifes desktop had 18 important and 3 optional updates this month through windows update. Both machines are updated at the same time each month so should need the same number of updates.
 
My laptop has finally picked up 21 important and 4 optional updates after being on for most of the day. It's now stuck on downloading updates!! Last week I had it running for 24 hours continously between trying different methods/fixes for a week and it just stuck on checking for updates. Can't make any sense of that. It shows that the convienience update doesn't have this months fixes though.
 
Why is it only Windows 7 that is having these horrendous issues? I had suffered it as well but 8.1 is having no issues whatsoever obtaining any updates. Even a simple check.
 
No idea but just leaving it running has worked for me and pasty so far, so worth a try for anyone in the same predicament if nothing else has worked.
 
It's only been happening since 10 was released and I can't get it out of my head that Microsoft is doing to on purpose to "persuade" people to "upgrade" to 10. I can't move my laptop to 10 because as it's so old there are no drivers for it (I am using vista drivers to get it working in W7) plus my weatherstation software doesn't support anything above W7. If MS wants to give me a few hundred quid to buy a new weatherstation then I will upgrade. Until then they can do one.

My main pc is on W10 and it picks up the latest updates in less than a minute.
 
It was odd that through the entire update check (30hrs) my cpu was constantly at~20% usage, so it definitely seemed up to something during that time before it identified the relevant updates.
 
Pretty sure I've had problems with W7 Update before W10 was released, so I wouldn't say it's related. Quite often it would just sit their checking for updates for hours, or trying to download them. Then a few days later it would work fine.

My W7 Update is working fine now.
 
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