Solved What fixed my windows update problems

[Lady Fitzgerald]

...when we start talking about bad backs and creaky necks! :roflmao:

Oh, man, don't even go there! My neighbors are already complaining about the noise from the pops, snaps, and creaks from my joints

 

[thelma]

...when we start talking about bad backs and creaky necks! :roflmao:

oh, man, don't even go there! My neighbors are already complaining about the noise from the pops, snaps, and creaks from my joints

 

[Brds7t7]

...when we start talking about bad backs and creaky necks! :roflmao:

oh, man, don't even go there! My neighbors are already complaining about the noise from the pops, snaps, and creaks from my joints

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:roflmao: I propose we start an SF Ailment Orchestra! Should make some interesting sounds

 

[Viscon]

Hi,
Yea it's the only thing I don't like about Steam it always asks to select age to preview games :mad2:

I've never understood why Steam constantly does that after I'm already signed in. If I'm signed into my account, then it should surely already know my age.

I think the OP will start to regret this thread soon, especially when we start talking about bad backs and creaky necks! :roflmao:

No way. I actually enjoy your conversation, considering the fact that I myself have an ongoing problems with my back. See, last autumn I got this horrible sciatica which imprisoned me in my home for almost two months. Go figure...

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

oh, man, don't even go there! My neighbors are already complaining about the noise from the pops, snaps, and creaks from my joints

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:roflmao: I propose we start an SF Ailment Orchestra! Should make some interesting sounds

:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao: Great idea! We would be a hit at retirement community concerts! The whole audience could join in.

 

[Brds7t7]

No way. I actually enjoy your conversation, considering the fact that I myself have an ongoing problems with my back. See, last autumn I got this horrible sciatica which imprisoned me in my home for almost two months. Go figure...

Oof nasty! My Uncle suffers with Sciatica and I know it causes him a lot of discomfort all the time, so you have my sympathy.

:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao: Great idea! We would be a hit at retirement community concerts! The whole audience could join in.

:roflmao: Genius idea LF!

I did a heavy duty manual labour job for over 15 years and it's starting to come back to haunt me these days! Sounds like a family of Woodpeckers when I get out of bed in the morning!

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

No way. I actually enjoy your conversation, considering the fact that I myself have an ongoing problems with my back. See, last autumn I got this horrible sciatica which imprisoned me in my home for almost two months. Go figure...

Oof nasty! My Uncle suffers with Sciatica and I know it causes him a lot of discomfort all the time, so you have my sympathy.

:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao: Great idea! We would be a hit at retirement community concerts! The whole audience could join in.

:roflmao: Genius idea LF!

I did a heavy duty manual labour job for over 15 years and it's starting to come back to haunt me these days! Sounds like a family of Woodpeckers when I get out of bed in the morning!

I refer to my body as a Rice Krispies body since it snaps, crackles, and pops. Some days, I'm a walking symphony.

I worked in warehousing for 30 of the 32 years I was at the company that now provides my pension. I'm now paying for all those years of heavy labor.

I also worked for 5 1/2 years at a convenience store to partially bridge the gap between early retirement and Social Security. You would be surprised how physical that job was.

 

[thelma]

No way. I actually enjoy your conversation, considering the fact that I myself have an ongoing problems with my back. See, last autumn I got this horrible sciatica which imprisoned me in my home for almost two months. Go figure...

Oof nasty! My Uncle suffers with Sciatica and I know it causes him a lot of discomfort all the time, so you have my sympathy.

:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao: Great idea! We would be a hit at retirement community concerts! The whole audience could join in.

:roflmao: Genius idea LF!

I did a heavy duty manual labour job for over 15 years and it's starting to come back to haunt me these days! Sounds like a family of Woodpeckers when I get out of bed in the morning!

I refer to my body as a Rice Krispies body since it snaps, crackles, and pops. Some days, I'm a walking symphony.

I worked in warehousing for 30 of the 32 years I was at the company that now provides my pension. I'm now paying for all those years of heavy labor.

I also worked for 5 1/2 years at a convenience store to partially bridge the gap between early retirement and Social Security. You would be surprised how physical that job was.

Cod liver oil daily and it stops, honest ! It even helps old dogs back on their feet. .

The latter is true and not a joke or disrespect to us all.

If I run sarc out of them for a week I start getting cracks back in my ankles going down the stairs
But Cod liver oil does not fix your Windows update problems . I think we are ever so slightly :focus:

 

[Brds7t7]

I refer to my body as a Rice Krispies body since it snaps, crackles, and pops. Some days, I'm a walking symphony.

:roflmao:

But Cod liver oil does not fix your Windows update problems . I think we are ever so slightly :focus:

So smearing Cod Liver Oil on my motherboard won't help then? :roflmao:

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

...So smearing Cod Liver Oil on my motherboard won't help then? :roflmao:

No, but the neighborhood cats will love you.

 

[Brds7t7]

...So smearing Cod Liver Oil on my motherboard won't help then? :roflmao:

No, but the neighborhood cats will love you.

And possibly the local fire department.

 

[thelma]

...So smearing Cod Liver Oil on my motherboard won't help then? :roflmao:

No, but the neighborhood cats will love you.

 

[Brds7t7]

:roflmao:

 

[Hijin25]

Like many users I suffered these issues: high CPU and RAM usage by svchost.exe, hours of checking windows updates and being stuck while downloading them.
After weeks of trying solutions I've found this one that worked.

Here's what I did:
- stopped WinUpdate service and installed KB3138612 OFFLINE
- rebooted
- stopped WinUpade again and installed KB3145739 and KB3153199, both OFFLINE
- rebooted

Then I checked for new updates and it took just about 10 mins.
Downloading new updates went right away and no more high CPU and RAM usage by svchost.
It's been 5 days now and so far problems are gone.

Hopefully this might help.

First of all, sorry for my English is not my native language.

I just thank you for sharing register for steps to solve the problem with windows update.

After a long time of looking for solutions fix your advice my case.

Thanks again and a hug from Mexico.

 

[Viscon]

Happy to hear it worked on your side.

 

[Callender]

I use IE11 too (for that site only) and have no issues accessing it. I don't think it's accessible with another browser as it requires the ActiveX plugin. It doesn't work when I try with Chrome.
Apparently MS is said to be removing that requirement in the next few months so it will be accessible with any browser eventually.
Even some users using IE11 have said they're unable to access it though.

Hopefully they'll remove that quickly now that they're supposedly phasing out the Download Center. Otherwise some people are going to have less options to download some updates offline.

I can use a couple of other browsers to access MS Update Catalog but they "pretend to be IE11"

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That's interesting Callender, what browser is that you're using? I've tried to use IETab extension in Chrome as that has different IE compatibility modes. It does open up the site with no problems, but when you click to download it won't go any further, there's no popup to download the files to Desktop.

Active X requirement has now been removed. Here's a screenshot from Opera 12.18 (Presto)

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[ThrashZone]

Hi,
It's about time