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Windows 7 Service Pack 1 - 64 Bit, issues with Windows Update & Boot DVD!

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Boggin:
This could go on and on and on.

As you are unable to do a repair install and therefore an offboot sfc /scannow and it doesn't look like that guy is going to come up with a solution any time soon - why not just back up your personal stuff and do a clean install.

Have you considered that those superseded updates are irrelevant now and that guy has got it wrong ?

GuruSR:
This is a clean install, the Convenience Rollup was next, after that it's not liking the boot dvd, sfc /scannow says repeatedly, 100% fine.  I'd rather not do a fresh install again, it won't make any difference, if I do everything identical to the first time, I'll get the same results.  The other guy hasn't got it wrong, as Microsoft has put fixes out to repair these issues and more are being added.  Patience on that is my ticket there.  Just would like to solve the issue with Windows Update's Ok (Settings) and Hide Update not working, thats the big thing in my book, plus the WMI, think it's from one of the uninstalls I did for the Bluetooth adapter I tried to install, but without any means to find out whether or not it's the issue, as there doesn't seem to be a WMI viewer around, as I tried the WMI repair on AIO and it caused more grief than good, so I restored before it.

The DVD issue is really minor, as I do regular backups (Acronis) and restoration using that, is the only real thing I'd need to do, but not having a full recovery console to possibly fix the boot sector is an issue.

GuruSR.

Boggin:
If you had a problem with the boot sector then you would have boot problems, but you can get to the recovery console either by tapping F8 as you switch on then select Repair your computer or boot up with a system repair disk which will get you to the same place.

You can then use the Bootrec cmds from the cmd prompt.

As you have Acronis back ups, the why not use those as a fall back the then run Disk Cleanup as an admin and if that isn't the solution, then you can restore.

Have you considered upgrading to Win 10 - that can usually resolve problems.

You can still do it for free by using the Assistive Technologies link and then use the Media Creation Tool to create Win 10 bootable media.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/accessibility/windows10upgrade

Click on the Download tool now button in https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10 and read the section for Using the tool to create installation media.

GuruSR:
Not wanting to jump into the mess that is Windows 10, the Anniversary Edition has quite a lot of issues, none of which I want to add to my existing ones.

I did, however fix the WMI issue, after doing multiple searches (limiting the information), I found a repair that Microsoft nicely hid regarding the issue I was running into, apparently it *can* happen on install of SP1, ran the script and no more WMI issues, it deleted the BVTConsumer (as I expected it'd find) from the WMI Repository.

No errors on boot, the only issues now aren't major (the Windows Update settings & hide updates do nothing) and the Recovery Console fails to recognize the version of Windows on the computer (meaning it doesn't actually "look" for any, it simply fails instantly).  F8 doesn't show a Recovery Console as there is no Recovery Partition on this machine, so it isn't installed.  I would, but that requires a ton of work, as I've not found an easy way to install it on any machine past XP.

GuruSR.

Boggin:
I'm not sure what your last sentence refers to about installing on any machine past XP.

What do you get when you boot up with a system repair disk.

I've only ever used Toshiba laptops but have removed the recovery partition and extended that to C: so that I only have the one main partition.

F8 and booting up with a system repair disk still gives me a means of navigating to the recovery console though.

August last year I upgraded one of my Win 7 laptops to Win 10 and it was a disaster - the Start menu froze and I couldn't do a thing with it except factory reset it with the recovery disks I'd created and then restored with a system image.

Because of that, I swore off upgrading for life, but this year I got hold of a Toshiba laptop that need a mobo replacement - got that done - factory reset it and used WSUS Offline Update to get the updates which then included the GWX which ran the upgrade.

I was happy enough with that, that I upgraded the first one I'd had the bad experience with and that went fine as well until the Anniversary Update.

I was having problems with IE having difficulty in getting to websites on both machines but found that those problems were gone when run IE without add-ons.

I reset IE to defaults then disabled some of the default add-ons and now both machines are running sweet.

One problem that I've found that those upgrading have found and that is DCOM Event ID 10016 and CAPI2 Event ID 513.

I've ignored the first but found a fix for the CAPI2 error as that disrupts a system image in that it can freeze it.

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