Windows 7 updates failing

josh3190 · 1 Nov 2015 at 16:24

Hey everyone, had win7 SP1 installed for a few days and now it wants to apply some updates,

However when rebooting and it is configuring all the updates it has now failed twice and reverts to the 'old' settings, any way around this?

Don't particularly want to wait an hour either side of turning my PC on and off for windows to spaz out,

Thanks!

Uther · 1 Nov 2015 at 16:47

Happened to me a few days ago with a new Win 7 install. Took hours in the end.
I'm talking several hours. 5-6 I think...

josh3190 · 1 Nov 2015 at 17:36

yeah i don't mind it taking time but it is failing to configure the updates every time i turn on the PC and then reverts the settings it tries to install them again and round and round and round it goes...

[TBR]MadMark · 1 Nov 2015 at 19:22

Had a similar issue to this on a customers pc, check to see if the windows trusted installer service is working- chances are it isn't. The only fix is a fresh install.

Rroff · 1 Nov 2015 at 19:25

WU on 7 seems a bit flakey at the best of times at the moment - several systems lately have taken a good 2+ hours just finding updates, etc. before doing anything and had some failures to install the first time though so far they've all taken the 2nd attempt.

Blackjack Davy · 1 Nov 2015 at 21:58

Are you getting a big red "X" and a "failed updates" message?

If so its something that seems to happen sometimes and its happened to me at least once, I can't remember exactly what I did but you have to go into x:\Windows\Software Distribution\Download and delete all the stuff in there and you might need to delete \Datastore\Datastore.edb, I think. Windows Update may complain a bit but it should update itself eventually if you manually stop and start the service a few times.

asim18 · 3 Nov 2015 at 07:26

Rroff said:
WU on 7 seems a bit flakey at the best of times at the moment

What's been happening recently with Win 7 machines is extremely weird.

Processes relating to Windows Update seem to be reading the entire contents of people's hard drives. I had one guy where windows update had read almost 30 gigabytes of data.

Perhaps windows 7 has also come under attack from the new Windows 10 data mining/collection directives?