Windows 7 updates failing

Steveocee

Steveocee

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Hello,
I'm having a real issue with updates failing ATM, seems to be that it just cannot install a set of security and .net updates aswell as some IE8 patch and IE9 update.

Really annoying me to be honest as I have tried 2/3 of the microsoft tools and neither have helped me to get them on.

Any ideas of how I can try and get them on?
 
This is what I get;
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If i manually install them all then tell windows to check for updates, am i right it wont bring them up kind of "bypassing this stage of updates" and can continue with the next lot?
 
I just had a problem with Windows Updates and chkdsk sorted it. Might work for you.

Type: cmd in Start Orb > Search box and right-click on Command link to select Run As Administrator > Type: chkdsk /r /f then press Enter. It will run on next boot.
 
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Typically it's a ram or hard drive problem if you get mass WU failures.

Or the date/time are wrong on the pc
 
Hello all,
Over night I have run the check disk which returned 0 errors.
Weirdly I cant install the updates individually.
Ram and HD are both fine and the time/date is updated automatically to GMT.

Beginning to think a re-install may be needed?
 
Had this problem with 3 brand new machines we'd bought at work.

Ended up formatting machines and banging on a fresh copy of Win 7.
 
If you want to do a repair install with a W7 disk here's a tutorial. It will restore your windows installation without affecting your programs and settings; you will have to do Updates again...which is what you want of course! :)

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html

Basically, you run the disk inside Windows rather than running from boot...it's a 2 or 3 hour job rather than a couple of days doing a clean install. Save any data off C: that is precious just in case.

If you need a W7 disk get your version with SP1 (3GB download):

http://www.askvg.com/direct-downloa...nd-untouched-windows-7-iso-32-bit-and-64-bit/

Burn it with this at 4x: http://www.filehippo.com/download_imgburn/
 
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bledd. said:
Worth trying this first..

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/windows-update-issues/en-gb
Click to expand...

Tried that again and it seems it thinks it is moving the downloads form somewhere to the "default" path.

I clicked into the error details.
1st error message thinks a file is missing or corrupt
2nd says it is there because something didn't install.

Checked the log in windows and it thinks IE9 is having lots of programs it doesn't agree with. I can live without IE9 but its missing the security updates that bugs me.
 
sounds like ram to me, had the same thing happen, couldnt install updates, tried most of the fixes on google. A friend told me to pull my ram sticks and try them individually. Found one was flaky and after that no more issues.
 
bledd. said:
Typically it's a ram or hard drive problem if you get mass WU failures.

Or the date/time are wrong on the pc
Click to expand...

macca672 said:
sounds like ram to me, had the same thing happen, couldnt install updates, tried most of the fixes on google. A friend told me to pull my ram sticks and try them individually. Found one was flaky and after that no more issues.
Click to expand...

Will try pulling RAM tonight. It's annoying as I had more updates yesterday and about 50% completed but still the original "culprits" remained so it is able to install some and not others.

Saying that....I was after an excuse to buy the samsung RAM
 
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