continually checking for updates....

Yesterday l was doing some maintanance on my old laptop which had not been updated since around the end of July.

prior to that it was updating fine, however l left it for a good hour and it was still checking for updates.. l did run the troubleshooter which mentioned some issues with service registrations, l ended up restoring the laptop to default (to be honest it needed it and l was only planning on giving it to my parents anyways).

after resetting l managed to get 14/15 updates down (last one was .net framework 4) and not its annoyingly just continually checking for updates again (left it for 4 hours), lve run the tools to reset windows update, run the troubleshooter, cleaned with ccleaner and everything else l can think of as lm not getting any error codes its kind of stumped me..

was just wondering if anyone else had any ideas l havent thought of yet or if there was a list of updates that caused this because all lve managed to download is 13 or so security updates, SP1 and maybe a few .net packages before this update loop, l did try autopatcher before reinstalling but it stopped on the first update hence why l reinstalled (it worked better on my new laptop lol).

one thing l did notice is a constant use of over a gig on a svchost instance (which was normal when updating on my old laptop as when it finished the memory usage went down but now its pretty constant).

timeless said:

(left it for 4 hours)

Set it not to sleep and try leaving it for 24 hours.

Finally got things working, imaging the drive to save time later.