Win7 Pro x64. Failure to apply Updates, Reverting changes, Please do not turn off your Computer. HELP?!!!!

[hoover1979]

I (reluctantly) Updated to IE11 and downloaded the rollup update for windows 7 64bit fro the Microsoft Update Catalog. Upon running it, it checked for updates and asked me whether it wanted me to install the update......

After installing, the PC rebooted and got all the way to 99% before.....

Failure to appy Updates
Reverting Changes
Please do not turn off your Computer.

Then in what seemed like forever the pc rebooted only to go straight to.....

Failure to appy Updates
Reverting Changes
Please do not turn off your Computer.

And then it took just a long as the first time before I could log in to my PC.

Looks like this Updater is just a broken as the one built in to windows.

Why is Windows refusing to update?

Is this a deliberate sabotage from Microsoft to bully its users into infecting their PC's with the Windows 10 Virus?

I am furious over this BS!!!!!

I then deleted the Update Cache and restarted my PC as a clean boot and tried the update again. It rebooted and got to 99% and once again......

Failure to appy Updates
Reverting Changes
Please do not turn off your Computer.

And once again,

in what seemed like forever the pc rebooted only to go straight to.....

Failure to appy Updates
Reverting Changes
Please do not turn off your Computer.

I have now officially tried EVERYTHING I could find in the annals of Google, from Microsoft forums, to windows7 help forums, to tom's Hardware and every tech forum inbetween and Windows 7 Pro x64 simply REFUSES to update!

I am now all out of options and doomed to get persistant appcrashes with the error code of 0x00000005 all over the place on my system.

I am so #%$@ed off I am opening a bottle of Vodka!


My Specs:

ASUS Z97-k Motherboard
Intel Core i7-4790k @4.0Ghz
Noctua NH-L12 Cooler
Over 20-Tb of total HDD storage (5x Internal + 2x External)
Gigabyte GTX760 OC Edition @4Ghz (My Gigabyte GTX970 G1 Gaming is being repaired)
ASUS VG278 120Hz 3D Monitor
Antec 600w PSU
32Gb Corsair Vengeance Pro 2400 DDR3 RAM
Soundblaster Zx
Logitech z506 Surround Speakers
ASUS RT-AC68U Dual Band router on Australian NBN connection (100Mbsp DL / 40Mbps UL)
Logitech F-710 Wireless Controller
Logitech G502 Proteus Core Mouse
Logitech G710+ Gaming Keyboard
Fractal Design Define XL-R2 full tower case
LG Blu-Ray Drive
Nvidia 3D Vision 2 Kit

Please Assist!

 

[whassup]

Since Windows 7 is a pretty old OS now installing the OS fresh and installing all the updates is hell like experience which I too gone through last year. I thinks your OS somewhere get messed up preventing you from updating it.

You can try installing the new Win 7 Convenience roll-up update which contains all the security and non-security fixes released since the release of Windows 7 SP1 that are suitable for general distribution, up through April 2016. To apply this update, you must install the April 2015 servicing stack update for Windows 7 (KB3020369)

Convenience roll-up update for Windows 7 SP1
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsitpro/2016/05/17/simplifying-updates-for-windows-7-and-8-1/
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3125574

April 2015 servicing stack update for Windows 7
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3020369

If the above installation too fails, I think you need to format and reinstall Window 7 all over again and then install Convenience rollup update.

 

[hoover1979]

The Rollup Update is failing, time and time again, as I mentioned in the OP. Windows Update fails updates too, even with a clean boot and the Update cache wiped. Both The Rollup and Windows Update are refusing to update and if I try a repair install with the Update option on it hangs permenantly as it had not even stared to install 10 hours later the next morning. I am screwed royally here and wonder if this is sabotage from Microsoft to bully consumers into infecting their rigs with the Windows 10 Virus.

and as this is happening in a new install reformatting the HDD is an option I don't want to do as the updating may continue to fail and I will spend another week reinstalling and setting up my mammoth load of apps and games. I have around 4Tb free on a total of 20.25Tb storage.

EDIT: I followed the link for the service stack and I got a Microsoft "Page not found". I think if the page exists it is blocked to Australian users.

 

[whassup]

The April 2015 servicing stack update is necessary to install the Rollup Update to work. It is weird the link is not working for you. If you feels the link is blocked in your location could you try accessing the link through a Proxy site ? There are many free proxy sites available which you can google.

 

[whassup]

Also try installing

System Update Readiness Tool for Windows 7 for x64
https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=20858