It's time for Microsoft to fix the Windows 7 update slowdowns

[Callender]

Can't say I agree with that Callender, absolutely nothing wrong with any of my systems.
You even said that it took you around 3 weeks to fix the slow update issue.
I've tried every fix posted on these forums including yours and it hasn't worked for me. As I say, it's hit and miss as to whether I get them quickly.
With all the posts popping up lately about slow updates, you're saying that all these people have something wrong with their systems?
This is a problem MS created and it's something they should be fixing
If it took you 3 weeks, then how is an inexperienced user who doesn't know much about Windows supposed to fix it??

Agree that the problems are not caused by the user. It would appear to be faulty updates that were released. As for the average user fixing their systems - they probably can't.

All I can say is that a complete removal of Windows Updates followed by a fresh install of Windows Updates fixes it every time (for me)

I've had problems several times during the last year or so where even rolling back to a system image backup didn't fix things.

 

[ThrashZone]

Yea I agree sometimes the system can get off
My update history was wild mostly successful but way too many MSE sludge updates cluttering up the history and it isn't installed anymore so I reset it finally.

I believe long term wise it was the best thing to do these workaround methods are just short term band-aids it seems :/

 

[Layback Bear]

I believe that we all know that all the Windows 7 computer didn't go bad at the same time and have Update problems.
Yes we see some that are still trying to get SP-1 so they can get the free W-10. I think we know why that is in many cases.

My last Windows 7 updates Searching took about 20 to 30 min. to the best of my memory.
Installing was a breeze. Those are very good time compared to what they were. I got lucky and found a Microsoft Server.

I do believe that location of the computers in the world at times will have an effect of Search time.

There are so many possibilities but most of them have one thing in common. Not being able to Search and find a Microsoft Server that is available for Windows 7 Updates.

** Somebody tell me other than Microsoft, who has control of Microsoft Servers and what they will be used for?
** Someone tell me other than Microsoft who controls how many Servers and bandwidth is use for W-10 and how much/many is use for Windows 7 Updates.

Their is nothing wrong with my system. Everything works great on my systems except Searching for Windows 7 Updates.

 

[ThrashZone]

I did notice mbam was going freaking nuts in resource monitor
Not sure if mbam is having issues with the new M$ torrent servers or not

 

[Borg 386]

I find it odd that my 7 x86 has no problems (knock on wood) with the updates, but both my 7 64 OS's have very long wait times and nothing but problems when it comes to updating.

 

[michael diemer]

Hmm, maybe I should reinstall with the 32 bit version?

 

[lehnerus2000]

I'm trying to update another W7 VM.
It's been running since lunchtime (it's now 2:30 AM).

 

[ThrashZone]

The only install I had issues with was a 32 bit
Mostly I believe with using a upgrade key instead of full retail
Reloading Vista and using the upgrade disk and upgrade key seems to have solved that.

The Acer that just popped up with an issue well I did when KB3112343 came out hide it for a while
I believe that finally caught up to it this month but I did not really give it enough time to see if it would of normally find updates shortly after startup as the other 2 did this month so who knows it may have found them on it's own eventually
Acer needed some house cleaning anyway.
See what happens next month the update system has turned into quite the adventure

 

[michael diemer]

Then again, maybe not...

 

[Brds7t7]

Hmm, maybe I should reinstall with the 32 bit version?

I've had issues with Windows Update running in both 64-Bit and 32-Bit VM's so it can affect both unfortunately.

 

[profdlp]

We have been having problems with WU on a lot of machines at work. We are all Domain users and our Admin is judicious about which updates he permits. (All of the Important ones, some of the Recommended, very few Optional.) We still get calls all the time about "WU is taking forever...".

One thing we've found is that, for many users, if you cancel the search for updates and try it again it goes smoothly the second time around.

 

[Layback Bear]

I have also found that if I stop the search in Task Manager and then do another Windows 7 Search thing speed up most of the time.
I believe what is happening, is that the new search finds another path to a available Microsoft Server.

 

[michael diemer]

If members of this forum are coming up with ingenious work arounds to this update mess, why can't micromonopoly fix it? (We all know the answer - they could, but they won't).

 

[HammerHead]

Off The Wall

I know this is off the wall but I some times ponder. Are all the updates necessary? I haven't been having any major problems. A solution I have considered is stop up dating entirely.

 

[michael diemer]

Indeed, I have stopped updating, as it appears next to impossible to do it these days. If I go online with W7, it's to a specific place I trust, like a music company I want to download from. Everything else I'm on Ubuntu. My W7 install is mainly storage at this point.

 

[Anak]

I know this is off the wall but I some times ponder. Are all the updates necessary? I haven't been having any major problems. A solution I have considered is stop up dating entirely.

Congratulations on your gold badge HH!


Your solution would be okay because I rarely see an update to address a structural problem with win7; But, there are usually a half dozen every month that address remote-code execution if your machine would be visited by an attacker so you would be leaving your machine open to a possible attack if you visited a web site that harbors such activity.
Somehow that seems incongruous; How can a an operating system or parts of an operating system work okay, but is riddled with security flaws?!?


:focus:..............................

Has anyone noticed that updating is much faster lately? I hear it has to do with KB3153199 | google search I just had my copy installed this Tuesday May10th and my updates were finished like greased lighting.
My fourteen updates took less than 15minutes and that includes the restart. I'm hopin' it keeps up for next month, knock on wood..

 

[ThrashZone]

Yep way too early to celebrate

 

[Brds7t7]

I know this is off the wall but I some times ponder. Are all the updates necessary? I haven't been having any major problems. A solution I have considered is stop up dating entirely.

Congratulations on your gold badge HH!
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Your solution would be okay because I rarely see an update to address a structural problem with win7; But, there are usually a half dozen every month that address remote-code execution if your machine would be visited by an attacker so you would be leaving your machine open to a possible attack if you visited a web site that harbors such activity.
Somehow that seems incongruous; How can a an operating system or parts of an operating system work okay, but is riddled with security flaws?!?


:focus:..............................

Has anyone noticed that updating is much faster lately? I hear it has to do with KB3153199 | google search I just had my copy installed this Tuesday May10th and my updates were finished like greased lighting.
My fourteen updates took less than 15minutes and that includes the restart. I'm hopin' it keeps up for next month, knock on wood..View attachment 386723

I was thinking exactly the same thing, that the updates were suddenly coming a lot quicker in my VM's.... That was until the last few days and they've become painfully slow again. One of them was still stuck on searching after 3 hours, so don't get too comfortable. :roflmao:

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
The first one to install this month manually was [FONT=&quot]KB3153199[/FONT]
Main page,
https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/MS16-062

Windows 7 sp1 32 bit download
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52214
Windows 7 sp1 64 bit download
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52232

Then the rest should come up with the update system

 

[Callender]

Callender I just ran a check for updates and amazingly it only took 2 or 3 minutes. The Ram usage was 31%. I uninstalled KB2990214 about 10 minutes before running that update check. Course I don't have a stack of updates to run right now, but an update search till now has been taking about an hour! Did uninstalling 2990214 make that difference??? Man if it did, WOW!

Yes that KB2990214 WUC update is known to cause problems. One of the other later WUC's also caused problems for me but I cannot remember which one.

Okay here's my list of problem WUC's to check for removal (the ones that caused problems)

   Note

KB 2990214 - Apr 2015 - WUC: enables ability to upgrade to Win10

KB 3065987 - Jul 2015 - WUC: unspecified "improvements" (replaces 3050265) adds telemetry

KB 3075851 - Aug 2015 - WUC: fixes mess due to KB3065987 [cuts down WUC memory usage, but hides Update notifications if GWX app is active] (replaces 3065987)

KB 3083324 - Sep 2015 - WUC: unspecified "improvements" (replaces 3075851) adds telemetry

KB 3083710 - Oct 2015 - WUC: unspecified "improvements" (replaces 3083324) adds telemetry