Help.. Windows update just keeps checking without downloading anything

Hiii Sevenforums Team,

Plz help in this out as me facing this prob from when...
even though i repair/reinstall windows7 thru installation disc...but still the prob is not been solved.

I try my best.. but still no positive results.so i give up and came here...By hoping that anyone here will sort out my prob ...my last hope

It will keep on checking...for hrs..but nothing happens


i even run this tool "WindowsUpdateDiagnostic" so many times... but it always says error repair but nothing happens..same errors it shows again on reboot.



says repair/Fixed...

.

just an eyewash,,,nothing getting fixed....

hi Brinkz,
i used that method once.. a week back..
on nxt day my whole pc was pwned.. i was not able to open any drive on double click..
is it safe to try/use it again.

this error it was showing,last week

When was the last successful update that you got? It will show up in your update history, or maybe under installed updates (both of which are on Windows Update dialog), so check both.
To make a long story short, my "Checking updates" never ended either. In my update history, the last successful update was back in August. I ended up installing the missing ones manually, from the ISO files on the Microsoft website..
It was a pain, but it got things back on track again. My updates are working now. All else fails, worth a try.

Brink said:

The .bat file to reset Windows Update would not affect that.

It sounds like something messed up your drive association. Downloading and merging the .reg file for the listed Drive option in the tutorial below should help restore the default drive association.

Default File Type Associations - Restore

ok i run that .bat file in admin mode... (well it created new softdistribution folder and old one as SoftwareDistribution.bak)




restarted the pc... now when i check for update it shows this error

eab said:

When was the last successful update that you got? It will show up in your update history, or maybe under installed updates (both of which are on Windows Update dialog), so check both.
To make a long story short, my "Checking updates" never ended either. In my update history, the last successful update was back in August. I ended up installing the missing ones manually, from the ISO files on the Microsoft website..
It was a pain, but it got things back on track again. My updates are working now. All else fails, worth a try.

actually me using this desktop pc after a gap of 5/6 months.. that time it was working well with updates.. but now its not.
and as i told i repair the windows.. so cant see any installed updates detail only ie11 and its few update what i done manually a week back.
Me back using this desktop pc,with all new net connection & new modem

this manually download updates sucks.. take to much time...

ok i clicked on Turn on DEP for Essential Windows Programs and Services only.
reboot...
still it showing "checking for update" (the pic wat i posted in 1st post...)