Windows Update Never Stops Searching

Hello. 'tis I, Richard yet again with another issue. This time, however, is with a PC I have just recently installed Windows 7 64 Bit Home Premium on. My PC specs are listed below.

Gigabyte Mobo GA 890 GPA UD3H
8 Gigs of Corsair 1600MMX Ram (I have 2 sticks of 4 Gig RAM, even though stupid windows says I only have 4GB)
Sound Blaster VX Sound Card.
AMX Phenom II X6 1090T Processor (and no, I do not have access to another CPU).

I have just recently acquired this PC, and I am currently trying to use Windows Update. But Windows Update doesn't seem to want to do anything. It just sits there searching for updates without doing anything at all. It doesnt stop searching for them to give me an error. I have included the Logs folder in zip format in C:\Windows. I've already tried installing Updates that are supposedly a "hotfix" without success. Help is appreciated. I can't play games (I am a PC gamer nerd) without Windows Updates (especially Direct X and other ones).

Richardc267 said:

Hello. 'tis I, Richard yet again with another issue. This time, however, is with a PC I have just recently installed Windows 7 64 Bit Home Premium on. My PC specs are listed below.

Gigabyte Mobo GA 890 GPA UD3H
8 Gigs of Corsair 1600MMX Ram (I have 2 sticks of 4 Gig RAM, even though stupid windows says I only have 4GB)
Sound Blaster VX Sound Card.
AMX Phenom II X6 1090T Processor (and no, I do not have access to another CPU).

I have just recently acquired this PC, and I am currently trying to use Windows Update. But Windows Update doesn't seem to want to do anything. It just sits there searching for updates without doing anything at all. It doesnt stop searching for them to give me an error. I have included the Logs folder in zip format in C:\Windows. I've already tried installing Updates that are supposedly a "hotfix" without success. Help is appreciated. I can't play games (I am a PC gamer nerd) without Windows Updates (especially Direct X and other ones).

okay, ignore this. Somehow my Windows Update has miraculously fixed itself! Nevermind!

Okay. I have a new problem now.

When I try and select updates to download, it just stays at 0%, doesnt download anything, and just sits there. Even if I do this with only a couple small updates! Help please!

Edit: Forget this crap. I'm done wasting my time on this, I'm formatting my machine. I'll let you know how it goes afterwords.

Layback Bear said:

I'm trying to download Update at the present time and have the same problem.

It's probably Microsoft's Servers and bandwidth loaded up with a bunch of Windows 10 B/S

And I'm back at square one again. I let the Update program try and search for updates yet again...and it's stuck yet again at "never stops searching"...

Layback Bear said:

Personally I'm just going to wait a few hours and try again.

Well it started working again. I'm logging off and get my updates.

I think you're right. This thing takes forever to work. FFS Microsoft, get your crap together! God you people suck so much donkey bawls since Bill Gates stopped being CEO, it's disgusting.