Windows 7 - WINDOWS UPDATE WONT MOVE OFF CHECKING FOR UPDATES AFTER MANY FIX ATTEMPTS

[Jackstrh]

On windows update it says I need to check for updates because I havent installed any which is true because when I try and install updates it just says checking for updates for hours on end. It was on 8 hours straight and still saying checking for updates. Ive tried installing the Windows standalone programs that apparently scan them quicker but that didnt work. I disabled BITS and Windows update in computer management and the ndeleted SoftwareDistibrution. And that didn't work either. I did a disk clean up in safe mode, that hasnt changed anything. So, i decided to do a system restore and still nothing, just says checking for updates non-stop. Also, it doesnt detect my elgato hdpro (PCI), it doesn't even let me open the program for it because I need the Platform update which also wouldnt install. What should I do? Will i have to reinstall windows? Please help, thanks.

PC SPECS -
Motherboard - Asrock 970 Pro3 Am3+
CPU - Amd FX - 8320
RAM - G.SKILL ripjaws X series 16gb DDr3
GPU - EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4gb

 

[clutchc]

Just went thru the same thing doing a clean install on an older machine. Took the Update pgm 5 hours the first day and 8 hours the next day to finally pop up with the screen showing the hundreds of updates available. Then came the long ordeal of actually downloading and installing them.

Someone linked me to this 'fix' which I haven't tried because I got the message to late. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49540

 

[Jackstrh]

Just went thru the same thing doing a clean install on an older machine. Took the Update pgm 5 hours the first day and 8 hours the next day to finally pop up with the screen showing the hundreds of updates available. Then came the long ordeal of actually downloading and installing them.

Someone linked me to this 'fix' which I haven't tried because I got the message to late. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49540

Ive tried that but it didnt work :/

 

[unksol]

http://www.wsusoffline.net/docs/

 

[Jackstrh]

http://www.wsusoffline.net/docs/

Tried that, didnt work

 

[clutchc]

Just went thru the same thing doing a clean install on an older machine. Took the Update pgm 5 hours the first day and 8 hours the next day to finally pop up with the screen showing the hundreds of updates available. Then came the long ordeal of actually downloading and installing them.

Someone linked me to this 'fix' which I haven't tried because I got the message to late. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49540

Ive tried that but it didnt work :/

Leave it run and walk away. Don't stop now, because most are probably already cataloged.
I have a personal theory as to why it takes so long now, but I better not spread it here.

I found this .ISO file download while searching the last time I had this issue: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/913086
But I haven't tried it because I couldn't verify which version of Windows it was for. If it is for Win7x64, I'd be on it in a heartbeat.

 

[ffg7]

took 2 days left on to search, download & install updates onto an amd single core 3ghz cpu laptop. faster computers can take upwards of a day. noticed this slow down the middle of last spring & since then when having to install windows then updates or just updates, I have to do it at home & my internet is fast.

 

[clutchc]

took 2 days left on to search, download & install updates onto an amd single core 3ghz cpu laptop. faster computers can take upwards of a day. noticed this slow down the middle of last spring & since then when having to install windows then updates or just updates, I have to do it at home & my internet is fast.

That is the point I was getting at too. It never used to be this long to do updates on new installs. I sometimes wonder if it is just another way of M$ hampering Win7 installs to get users to move to Win10. Limiting server access.

The updates I started doing were on a Pentium 4 640 single core machine. I ended up dropping in my own Q9550 to finish the updating. No telling how long it would have taken if I'd have left the P4 in.

 

[ffg7]

this slowness started mid last spring months before win10 came out. another thing to increase speed is to have at least 4 gigs of ram for doing the updates. the faster a computer is the faster the updates search, download & install.

 

[ASA1965]

Running an older asrock 775 pro 3 motherboard with a quad 4 cpu and 16gb of ram and a nvidia 9800 card.

I downloaded WSUS update tool and that downloaded and installed 202 of the critical updates for windows 7 in less than an hour. Previously I had windows update running for 8 hours and it downloaded nothing before I quit windows update.

This started after upgrading windows 7 pro 64 bit to windows 10, then decided no, will go back after not liking the program. When I attempted to restore windows 7 it crashed and I reinstalled from disk. This is when the update problems started. At first it was duplicating updates, up to 6 of the same update, all of them were office 2010 updates. After that, update failed completely. Personally and in my opinion only, I believe that update has been sabotaged for windows 7 installations. I will be looking for alternatives to windows after this. And yes, i tried installing windows 7 multiple times on different hard drives just verify, and each time the problems were the same.

I wonder how many people started experiencing this problem after upgrading to windows 10 and then reverting to windows 7 again? At any rate believe that the WSUS tool is a great way to get the job done.

 

[Blackink]

Simplifying updates for Windows 7 and 8.1:

Microsoft is making available a new convenience rollup for Windows 7 SP1 that will help. This convenience rollup package, available to download from Microsoft Update Catalog, 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. Install this one update, and then you only need new updates released after April 2016.

http://www.howtogeek.com/255435/how-to-update-windows-7-all-at-once-with-microsofts-convenience-rollup/

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3125574

 

[otto0713]

I encountered the same problem with the updates frozen. I happened upon this simple "fix" which solved the update problem.
Copy and paste the following to Notebook and save it as a 'fix.bat' file on your desktop. The "fiix.ba"t is essential when naming and saving it.

COPY AND PASTE THE FOLLOWING>

@ECHO OFF
echo This script is intended to stop Windows Update being COMPLETELY and UTTERLY rubbish
echo.
PAUSE
echo.
attrib -h -r -s %windir%\system32\catroot2
attrib -h -r -s %windir%\system32\catroot2\*.*
net stop wuauserv
net stop CryptSvc
net stop BITS
ren %windir%\system32\catroot2 catroot2.old
ren %windir%\SoftwareDistribution sold.old
ren "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\application data\Microsoft\Network\downloader" downloader.old
net Start BITS
net start CryptSvc
net start wuauserv
echo.
echo Windows Update should now work properly. Thanks Microsoft.
echo.
PAUSE


Now right click on the file on your desktop and run as the Administrator. It stops and then resets the updates. It took a few minutes, but it was completely successful.

 

[Alan_66]

NETfxRepairTool FINALLY fixed this problem for me! I had tried tweaking.com repair, the above fix.bat, and about anything else I could find to try, but this did it! WSUS is doing it's thang now!

 

[ffg7]

been using this file "KB3102810" after fresh installing win7 to get the updates search & downloaded faster.

 

[rapidpcs]

Quite simple
Turn off automatic updates and restart
Download and install KB3020369 choose 32 or 64bit get the right one
Download and install KB3172605 choose 32 or 64bit get the right one
Now check for updates again...usually 10 - 15 minutes to find them all
Turn automatic updates back on when all have installed

 

[eyoungberg]

Quite simple
Turn off automatic updates and restart
Download and install KB3020369 choose 32 or 64bit get the right one
Download and install KB3172605 choose 32 or 64bit get the right one
Now check for updates again...usually 10 - 15 minutes to find them all
Turn automatic updates back on when all have installed

This worked perfectly!

The only thing I did differently was, instead of "Turn off automatic updates and restart":
* Run a Command Prompt as Administrator
* Enter the following command without quotes: “net stop wuauserv”

Thank you so much!