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Windows Update Hangs Indefinitley
Willy2:
- @tone111: You can safely install all the "Important" updates. The "GWX" update is hidden in the "Optional" updates.
See also:
http://www.tweaking.com/forums/index.php/topic,4643.0.html
Tone111:
Cheers Willy, that's good to know :smiley:
Looking at them the majority are security updates so should be safe, plus MSERT and Windows Defender update, and then a bunch of security updates to .NET 3.5.1 which I don't have as I've upgraded to 4.6, so I'm not sure if I should install these or not?
There's only one actual Windows update that isn't a security patch so I'll check that one out.... :wink:
Boggin:
To find what an update is for, just click on it then on More info in the right pane which will open to a MS web page.
Even though you have .NET Framework 4.6.0/1 you still need to install those for 3.5.1 as 3.5.1 is part of Windows.
When I got the 220+ on the laptop I'd factory reset, even though I'd looked through them and not found any of the usual Win 10 suspects, when I rebooted I found I had the GWX icon in the system tray.
I downloaded GWX Control Panel and hit the various options which included monitoring for any Win 10 associated ones, but as the laptop seemed a bit slow, I uninstalled it.
I also looked for and uninstalled KBs 3035583 and 2952664.
Uninstalling GWX Control panel didn't seem to help with the slowness which also included a slow boot up, so had a look in Event Viewer and found Kernel-Tracing ID 3s and then remembered I hadn't re-enabled SuperFetch.
Guess I was that pleased to have resolved a month+ old problem that had included PC World replacing the CPU and they and me doing factory resets, that one got forgotten about :)
Tone111:
Thanks, I selected everything except the .NET updates, 24 in total, and it installed 22 and failed on 2, then on reboot the configuring stuck at 51% for ages then suddenly went to logon, suspiciously, so I checked the updates and they were nearly all "pending", so I checked the Winsxs folder and found an old 'friend' of mine in there - the pending.xml file!! argh :teeth: renamed that rebooted again a couple of times and those 22 all seem to have been successful now :smiley:
The update check now takes about 15 minutes on my machine and doesn't initiate the overheating it used to, plus svchost isn't spiking nearly as much - it's trustedinstaller now but less so, so everything seems to be as it should be I think, for now at least... :sarcastic:
I'll go back and do the .NET updates now if they're required, along with the couple that failed and try those again (3123479 from Jan & 3035126 from March 2015, both of which I've previously tried unsuccessfully to install and ended up hiding!), see you soon.... :wink:
Willy2:
- @Boggin: GWX popped up when you installed the important updates ?
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