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Why does Windows Update never finish scanning for updates? Seriously
Hi
I'm sure a lot of you have experienced this problem. Browsing through this forum, it is quite common, yet, I haven't found a reassuring solution. Can you help?
This is Windows 7 Home Premium. SP1 is installed. Windows was freshly installed.
Windows Update is scanning for updates. In fact it has been doing that for hours now to no avail. I seriously doubt it is doing anything at all. I think it's in a loop. There's little network traffic going through and CPU usage is very high. This Windows Update scan is taking forever, it never ever finishes.
What's more interesting, if you right click svchost.exe and choose show services, it's secret is revealed: this one is responsible for running wuauserv which is Windows Update.
This is happening on multiple computers in the house, and even on friends' computer. This is definitely not a local network problem.
This is also not some odd registry problem - we are talking about freshly installed systems.
Many of you suggest resetting Windows update using bat files. That doesn't seem to help me. After all, what would it reset, when it's so new anyway?
The only update installed is the Windows Update agent which was installed automatically.
Problems started when Microsoft released Windows 10. This must not be a coincidence. It is released on Windows update as a giant update package and I guess many people are still downloading it nowadays and that might be causing heavy traffic. But how come Windows update works fine on 8/8.1/10? And even on XP. But not on Windows 7
I have been using Windows 7 since 2009. I know it well. I never experienced a problem like this before. I do not (and have never) used any registry modding/cleaner/whatever tool.
It worked so fine before summer. Then it magically broke.
Why?
Please do comment if you are experiencing the same, even if you don't have a solution. I want to buzz this thread because it is a serious issue, it needs to get more attention. I'd also appreciate it if a moderator would escalate this thread to a sticky. Mods, you can also make any edits in this post you like to make it fit into a sticky. After all, similar threads open almost daily. It would be better to regroup this discussions from now on into one I think. Or at least make a common note on what we have so far.
So far this seems to be the only helpful trick I found: But not a solution.
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