Upon Install, Most W7 x64 HP Updates Fail

Formatting and install went fine ....

But when I began updating, apparently the internet connection failed for a minute. By then 3 updates had successfully installed. When connection was re-established, the updates for the 2009 W7 continued, but 300 out of 500 had failed, and I've not been able to figure out how to get them to re-install.

However, Windows Update continued updating says W7 is fully up to date. The OS seems fine, no issues for 4 days now. All programs running fine, no issues.

Question: Should I be concerned? If this is going to cause any problem or diminished performance, I want to go ahead and reformat and reinstall now.

Thanks ...
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Confusion:

In your second paragraph you say "300 out of 500 had failed, and I've not been able to figure out how to get them to re-install."

In your third paragraph you say "Windows Update continued updating says Windows 7 is fully up to date."

If the latter statement is true, why do you think there are still 300 (or any) updates to get?

What am I missing?

ignatzatsonic said:

Confusion:

In your second paragraph you say "300 out of 500 had failed, and I've not been able to figure out how to get them to re-install."

In your third paragraph you say "Windows Update continued updating says Windows 7 is fully up to date."

If the latter statement is true, why do you think there are still 300 (or any) updates to get?

What am I missing?

Probably just a clear explanation ...

After W7 installation, which went smoothly, internet connection failed shortly after the update process began. When reconnected, several hundred updates showed up failed. But after a reboot, a manual restart of WU continued just fine, even though the failed updates remained in the history.

The update process continued through several more reboots, and there were no further problems, until the updating was completed. WU has run perfectly since. Further, W7 acts fine (and I know Windows). And it's functionally sharp, as it should be with a format and fresh install.

There were ONLY 6 updates that failed after the internet incident, out of 180, and they all show in the first 3 shots, except a IE8 security Update Failure (IE9 is installed and fine).

So, there were 275 failures at the start of the process, all internet related. W7 SP1 installed just fine late in the process.

Screenshots of the WU history will follow ....

Thank again.
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Here are the shots .........

FWIW, I'm thinking the install may be OK. But I'm not confident enough to continue with everything unless you guys feel the same way, which is why I'm here.

A lot of work is in already, and I don't want to lose it. But I run a lot of stuff, a LOT of stuff, mostly related to work. I keep a clean machine. Seems like there would be some sign by now, several days after the internet disruption of the WU process, if there were problems.

So thanks again for your help.

Thanks for the help, everybody.

Everything seems fine. SP1 installed perfectly on the first day. WU works great, updates and shows up to date without exception.

Any ideas as to why WU would log so many failures? My W7 was an HP OEM the first week W7 came out. But it seems like WU would install SP1 first, instead of toward the end of the process ...

Thanks again.
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