Windows Updates - not working?

[Eudora931]

Any ideas on why it keep searching for updates but not moving past it? Left a 64bit, Windows 7 SP1 running overnight :-/

[ZeroNeg]

Had this issue with smoothwall blocking windows update via a proxy. Might be worth looking at if your running anything like that. Think in the end i used a proxy with no restrictions until the LA had solved the problem.

[Arthur]

Have you already installed the slow Windows Update scan hotfixes (first link below)?

 

• http://wu.krelay.de/en/
  
• www.infoworld.com/article/3086811/microsoft-windows/microsoft-releases-kb-3161647-kb-3161608-to-fix-slow-windows-7-update-scans.html
  

[sharansingh]

Restart your system just once then check update again for update, hope it will work for you.Otherwise your connection is too slow.

[snagrat]

If this is a new build from CD then I have found the initial updates take a long time.

 

Is the shutdown button showing updates to install?

[clockend25]

The initial search for updates on Windows 7 SP1 seems to take 4-5 hours these days. Even with the hotfixes and the convenience rollup I can't see to get it reduced much.

[Fazza]

Try logging on as a different user and then perform Windows Updates - that's worked for me a few times when it just sits their for days searching for updates. Logging back in as the original user after any updates have been installed then seems to work.

[Eudora931]

Thanks for all the tips guys - I will try logging on as a different user and the hot fixes.

The laptop is cabled in so speed wise should be ok...

Shut down button showing nothing...

 

Thanks again!

Just remembered as writing this - changed servers about a month back now - will also check that the laptop is not using the old dns setting... Doh!

Comment about speed just jogged that memory...

Thank you!

Edited August 10, 2016 by Eudora931

[Vegas]

Clearing out unwanted updates will speed up the performance of your WSUS server and your clients will pick up the updates a lot quicker.

How to identify and decline superseded updates in WSUS | TecKnowledgeBase

[3s-gtech]

I've just approved the newest version of KB3161608 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3161608) and my PC now completes the check in a few seconds, as opposed to some laptops I have on the floor here which are typically taking 4-5 hours to do the same job. Hopefully it'll fix that.

[Eudora931]

Well .. got past the updates search hanging to now getting [h=1]WindowsUpdate_80072EE2 error instead -no amount of googling helps find an answer -I'm sure there was a fix on the microsoft page but the download isn't there anymore... [/h]any ideas?