Selected updates not installing

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  1. Posts : 6
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #1

    Selected updates not installing


    My Windows updates are set to download automatically. I receive notification of this so that I can select which ones to install.
    My problem is that I select, close the screen, but when I reopen it it has reverted back.
    Initial screen:


    After selection:


    After closing and reopening:


    I've only just realised this was happening but it's probably been like that for ages.

    I don't install right away. They're scheduled to install at a time when the PC is on, but I won't be actively using it.
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  2. Posts : 896
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.
       #2

    Hello Alicante and welcome 7 Forums

    Why don't you just make some time to install these updates without doing anything else besides make a coffee or take a trip to the bog etc.

    Have you done a recent reinstall?
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  3. Posts : 25,847
    Windows 10 Pro. 64/ version 1709 Windows 7 Pro/64
       #3

    Make sure you check the updates you want and then in the lower right tick OK. When the next page comes up like in your post #1 just tick on Instal Updates and wait during installation.

    I agree with Wolfeymole. When I do updates I do nothing else on the computer.

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  4. Posts : 6
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #4

    I do check (or uncheck) the boxes and click OK. I don't do anything else on the computer. Like I said they're scheduled to install at a time that suits me when I know I won't be using the computer.
    Installing in itself is not the problem. The problem is that it's not retaining my selections and installing what I want, or don't want.
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  5. Posts : 25,847
    Windows 10 Pro. 64/ version 1709 Windows 7 Pro/64
       #5

    They install when you tick the Install Updates. If you don't tick on Install Updates it will just keep jumping up.
    Why don't you just install them now? If for what ever reason you don't install them now you will have to make your selection all over again.
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  6. Posts : 6
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #6

    There is an InstallNow button. Why? Why let you assume there is an option if there isn't?
    I want my computer to work for me, not me work for it.
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  7. Posts : 9,746
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit sp1
       #7

    Windows updates are a very important part of your Windows installation & they need to be kept up to date, as they contain security provisions & problem fixes. Not installing them can leave your computer vulnerable to virus & malware attacks, which can render your computer unusable.
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  8. Posts : 6
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #8

    They DO install. Just not the ones I want to. For instance there is always an optional update for my monitor. I always tick it. I now assume I don't get it and never have, hence it reappearing. Likewise an 'important' update for Silverlight - which I got rid of long ago.
    My point is if there isn't something wrong here, as nobody seems to think there is, why give me the option to select, then ignore it. Very logical.

    According to people here the standard procedure is to install straight away, then, as above, why give the facility to schedule them?
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  9. Posts : 25,847
    Windows 10 Pro. 64/ version 1709 Windows 7 Pro/64
       #9

    I must be completely be misunderstanding you.
    Any update you don't want to keep coming back just right tick on that update and select Hide.
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  10. Posts : 6
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #10

    That's exactly what I do. But if you look at the screencaps it doesn't keep the selections after I close the window. It used to work, I kept hiding IE10 and 11 and they didn't install. I closed the window then too and it installed corectly at the scheduled time. Now it installs what it wants to, not what I tell it.
    I don't want to be forced into installing IE12 whenever it appears.
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