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

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GuruSR:
The recovery console on XP could be installed and it shows up as a boot option (from the OS menu directly), there is no such way to do this above XP, unless you use a Recovery Partition which isn't easy to build from scratch and a large waste of space just to do so.  The recovery console (all) fails to recognize the version of Windows on the machine, not even the 10 one does.  Normally when you go to enter the recovery console, it says it's searching for versions of Windows, since the Convenience Rollup, it doesn't do that at all, instead it merely complains the version on the machine doesn't match the disc and click OK to continue, there will be no way to run the recovery console safely, until I see about solving the issue with the Convenience Rollup, but I can wait on that, as it's being backed up using Acronis (full device), so that isn't an issue unless I really don't want to restore from a previous backup, though I know when I had Ghost (15, which refused to install on 7, known issue, so went to Acronis since Ghost is dead for consumer), I would backup the ruined system, restore from backup and then use the ruined backup to restore files and such out of it to get back any data I may lose in the transition, so I know that is still workable, but the Repair Console/Disc refusing to even look at the Windows makes me think there's something the Convenience Rollup did wrong that ruined a registry entry or something that's making the software not even check the BCD for Windows.

GuruSR.

Boggin:
Can you go Start - type winver and press enter.

It should tell you the version of Windows and that it is licensed to the name of the computer.

Can you post a snip of that.

BTW - isn't the Convenience Rollup Optional and you would be able to uncheck it so that it wouldn't download - you can also do this for any Windows Update, so you could eliminate that as a cause following another clean install.

GuruSR:
6.1.7601 is the version, as expected and it's licensed properly.

The Convenience Rollup was to avoid having to download the ~200 updates post SP1.  Plus SSD'ed PCs won't update past SP1 due to an issue in Windows Update that was repaired somewhere in the first ~200 updates, just no idea which one did it.

My machine has an SSD in it from inception, so I couldn't update at all without doing thee Convenience Rollup unless I cloned it to a normal HDD and let it do the first 200 by itself, then clone it back onto the SSD and let it continue.  The rollup was faster, but at a cost of compatibility issues.  Though I tried one of the fixes and it was giving errors for everything, so that may shed a light on it.

The confusion why consent.exe won't come up on the Update settings change or the Hide Update request, is confusing.  All the other control panels pull up the request as needed.  I tried your Windows Update repair and it didn't make any difference, was hoping it would.

GuruSR.

Boggin:
Immediately after the clean install would be the time to change the update settings to Never and then use WSUS Offline Update to download/install the updates.

It doesn't usually download all, so check to see if you can still change the settings and if so, change to Let me choose and the remainder of the 250 should present in Windows Update.

Just download/install a few at a time, checking if the settings can be changed after each batch.

If they can't then you will need to uninstall each one until the settings can be changed.

This will be time consuming but probably quicker than waiting for that guy to come up with an answer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXAOvbNJYyE

http://download.wsusoffline.net/

GuruSR:
Well, for the moment, I'm patiently waiting, as to redo all the software installs I have done in the past 2 weeks and starting over again, is not something I really want to put myself through as that is something that just shouldn't happen, kinda like putting a dog down because it has fleas.  I know it's the Microsoft way, but really it shouldn't be.

GuruSR.

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