[SOLVED] Win 7 updates always fail

[foxhound525]

So I currently dual boot on my system, I need win 7 to use Tridef 3D for stereoscopic gaming. While windows 7 was my one and only OS, it developed an issue where it would fail to get past certain updates. I assumed this was Microsoft being anticonsumer as per usual, but weirdly after setting up my laptop and 2nd pc in a clean win7 install, those are fully up to date with no issues.

I tried using SFC scan and it found nothing, yet this quality rollup update refuses to work. What happens is it will download updates, 3 of them will fail, then it will repeat the process. This had been happening way before I cloned the drive for a parralel win 10 install.

Anyone have any ideas other than a fresh install? I have a bunch of software on there that might not be recoverable, and it would take a long time to get everything back to how it is now, so that's really not an option.

Windows 7 Home Premium x64
AMD FX-8370
GTX 1060
16GB DDR3 RAM
2 OS SSDs
3 HDDs

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Try this:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4027322/windows-update-troubleshooter

 

[foxhound525]

Try this:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4027322/windows-update-troubleshooter

Well I tried it twice, it supposedly fixed the issues both times, and while it allowed me to install some updates, the usual suspects have failed.

Any ideas?

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Short of a Windows 7 reinstall, I don't know what else to suggest 😕

 

[mdd1963]

There were normally so many Win7 updates pending (120-130 or so?) , I had no choice but to install but 10-15 at a time (which took the better part of a day) to prevent it from timing out...

 

[foxhound525]

There were normally so many Win7 updates pending (120-130 or so?) , I had no choice but to install but 10-15 at a time (which took the better part of a day) to prevent it from timing out...

Sorry I'm not sure what you mean by that. When I've tried to install these 3 specific updates they always fail. Coincidentally my laptop (different machine) seems to also be unable to install these updates too...

 

[ex_bubblehead]

The fix for that error (80092004 )can be found in this article: https://www.ghacks.net/2019/08/15/i...92004-on-windows-7-or-server-2008-r2-do-this/

TLDR: Microsoft dropped SHA-1 signature support and systems without the proper update/s installed will fail to install any updates signed with only SHA-2.

 

[Deleted member 2720853]

The fix for that error (80092004 )can be found in this article: https://www.ghacks.net/2019/08/15/i...92004-on-windows-7-or-server-2008-r2-do-this/

TLDR: Microsoft dropped SHA-1 signature support and systems without the proper update/s installed will fail to install any updates signed with only SHA-2.

Wish I knew this before deeming the Windows 7 Update Agent as utter trash

 

[foxhound525]

The fix for that error (80092004 )can be found in this article: https://www.ghacks.net/2019/08/15/i...92004-on-windows-7-or-server-2008-r2-do-this/

TLDR: Microsoft dropped SHA-1 signature support and systems without the proper update/s installed will fail to install any updates signed with only SHA-2.

Wow, this actually seems to have worked. Weird that microsoft presumably blocked my system from the update, despite me not having any of the antivirus programs that supposedly conflicted with it. I manually installed the missing update for SHA-2, then installed 9 updates, 1 failed. Restarted, did the last update again and it worked without issue. Now more updates are showing up so hopefully it doesn't get stuck again.

Edit: I am fully up to date!

I guess I was naive to think that windows update and/or the update troubleshooter would have caught this if that was the nature of the issue.

Thank you all for your help!