Window's Update Fails

[cctaylor88]

Just did a fresh install of Win7 and have many many updates to install etc. I selected about 50 updates to install at this time and it just says downloading but remains at 0% even though the bar is active and green as if its downloading. I went to MS support website and try running the "Fix it" to troubleshoot and that just does the same thing. I have Avira AV installed if that is any help...

Thanks in advance :/

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Eventually it should finish , i've seen this happen a lot.

 

[cctaylor88]

Which? The updates or the Fix It. Fix It has been running for 20 min now...

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

I've seen it take longer than that , will stay at 0 , then will just start updating.

 

[cctaylor88]

I'm sorry, are you referring to Fix It or the Windows Updates themselves?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Usually you don't need the fix.

 

[13thmonkey]

Agreed, just leave it alone, it will complete.

 

[MusenMouse]

This happens a lot for Windows 7. I remember reading somewhere else that if you have high RAM usage when using Windows update, or low RAM in general,it will take a long time for updates to occur. One thing you can check is go to the windows start button and look to see if the shutdown button has the windows update icon. If it does you can sort of jump start the updates by shutting down. Not sure if it makes it any faster but at least you know it will be working.

 

[wpgwpg]

I've seen this happen many times. I'm convinced that Microsoft throttles downloads to prevent their server for getting overloaded.

Good luck.

 

[cctaylor88]

I actually got several of the updates to download/installed last night with the exception of one that ended in error. Left the computer running all night and checked it this morning before work. I went through the next round again this morning (well over 100 updates again) and after clicking out (because I had selected all the updates I wanted) it then showed only a total of 5 updates. Hard to explain, but basically my second round of updates showed over 100 and then out of no where went down to just 5, didn't like this so we will see once I get home from work today.

 

[corb345]

I had trouble with Windows 7 Updates not working. Searching for hours. Tried sooo many different things and some I thought were going to work and then in the end same problem, Wouldn't install the ones it found or just kept searching. Tried to solve this issue for over a week.

Then I found a thread and the solution worked. Save your self some time and try it.

download.wsusoffline.net

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2895050/windows-update-checking-updates-stuck-forever.html