Windows Update Hangs at "Checking for Updates"

[ThrashZone]

Cool thanks
I posted it on the uninstallers thread,
http://www.sevenforums.com/system-s...ools-remove-residual-anti-virus-programs.html
Looks like some of them need updating

 

[NoelDP]

This is the best list I know - and it's still out of date...
Uninstallers (removal tools) for common Windows antivirus software—ESET Knowledgebase

 

[Shelli]

I'm just posting an update, because I still don't think I have a complete solution. I have a suspicion the problem has just become sneakier.... My computer still occasionally crashes and the crashes seem connected to days that Windows Update checks (or even one day when I opened the Windows Update control panel and just LOOKED at the settings). But the minidump blames my wireless network driver. So I just installed yet another driver today (I think this is about the fourth or fifth one I've tried), and we'll see if it stops the crashes.

Meanwhile, according to https://social.technet.microsoft.co...fd1a5b4/windows-update-scan-high-memory-usage and my own testing, KB3065987 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3065987) is the one that stops the obvious Windows Update memory leak. Without this update, I can hit "Check for Updates" and watch svchost climb to 2GB of RAM allocation within seconds. With it, Windows Update behaves as I manually check for updates.

...but what it is doing when it does its automatic checking, and whether or not it is definitively causing this intermittent crashing, is still a mystery.

 

[pprovaz]

This will most probably fix the issue:

http://www.sevenforums.com/windows-...king-updates-but-hangs-there.html#post3256792