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Windows Update never finishes checking for updates.
aJesusHuman:
After the first automatic updates installed it started allowing me to install updates manually, as well. We're good. Topic closed. Thanks!
Boggin:
What I had to use when there were real problems with Win 7 updates is a program called WSUS Offline Update.
http://www.wsusoffline.net/docs/
http://download.wsusoffline.net/
I didn't create a folder like it suggests in the tutorial and found using Client was okay.
This was following a factory reset where it initially gave me 251 updates but would they hell download.
When I went back to them, they had vanished and the Check for updates was just maxing out my CPU.
The program looked like it was downloading 217 but when I hit the updater in Client, it just downloaded 142 but after they had completed, I went back to Windows Update to find the remainder of the 251 waiting to be downloaded and they then downloaded and installed fine.
aJesusHuman:
Thank you SO MUCH for the tip. How I haven't heard of this tool until now I don't know. I haven't even used it and it is already in my essential list of tools.
Willy2:
- You can also try this guide to solve your (future) Windows Update problem. because there's no guarantee it won't return.
http://www.tweaking.com/forums/index.php/topic,4799.0.html
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