Updates have run to almost a standstill

[ICIT2LOL]

I think I have posted in the past re the updates not downloading and seeing that a lot of other folks have similar problems I thought I would ask again.

Now they have just about dried up and I have tried just about everything I can think of including redoing the readiness tool. I keep getting a pop up to say that updates are available but clicking on the download results in that running for hours at a time and it is getting really annoying.

In my pic you can see the miserable state of the installed updates and I am wondering if anyone has got any ideas. I have seen numerous links to get updates by various means but just don't know where to start.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Just curious but how many is the total updates do you show as installed ?
I just looked and my acer shows 338 installed.
Odd I see a adobe reader update on your list coming from MS on 1-12-17 is that the last time a successful update installed ?

 

[torchwood]

Hi ICIT2LOL,

lets try and clear those pendings, detail in screenshots

Run the net stop bits first
REBOOT
run updates if that doesn't work

option 2


@thrash approx 235 from his screenshot.

i've got 51 on my clean install from earlier this month

Roy

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Ok thanks for the relies fellas now the total number of updates is 236 which includes an update dated back in 2010?? A bit of a mystery as I only bought this machine latish last year!

Now I shall try and get my head around the fix Roy has posted as I am not that cluey when it gets down to this stuff.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Ok update I tried the first set of command instructions but it has jammed at what is in the pic. Maybe I have typed it worng but it just stops at the long entry Documents and Settings??

 

[Callender]

I reckon that command should be:

del /f /q "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Downloader\qmgr*.dat"

I'll PM you a link.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Thanks mate and I did get the PM and am just a bit mystified as to what to use in those links.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
My asus which was built a a little over a year ago shows 333 installed updates so far
I have not installed January's and have hidden a couple from December and November
So it does not seem like you're way out of date.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Ok the issue seems to have been fixed with the links from Microsoft
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3020369 and https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3172605 as soon as I got these installed the updates started flowing in again.

Now I don't know if it is my imagination or not but the machine has actually got a bit faster because I also had noticed it was getting slow in particular when using Libre word documents.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
lol those two updates should of been installed long ago
You have more updates than I compared with my asus so what's up with that

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Yep I realise that now and perhaps they were not downloaded because of the nonsense going around with that upgrade 10 stuff and I was loathe to download much at all mainly seeing the sneaky methods being used at the time. :huh: