RE: Windows Update checking for updates forever


  1. drunkenm666
    Posts : 2
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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    RE: Windows Update checking for updates forever


    Original thread: /windows-updates-activation/393818-windows-update-checking-updates-forever.html

    Since my original thread was closed based on an ASSUMPTION, I just wanted to post the solution:

    FYI: Windows licenses are not bound to HW and I have a perfectly legal (spare) Ultimate license to use, so I was in my right to install Win 7 Ultimate onto the laptop which came with a Win 7 Pro license. (Even if I didn't have a license, Win 7 allows a 30 day trial after installation, before I need to activate it!)

    Thanks, @Callender and @Barman58 for immediately assuming piracy and closing the thread before I could react...

    The solution for the mentioned problem seems to have been to do the steps listed in KB971058 manually (stopping the services, removing the SoftwareDistribution cache, re-registering the DLLs, etc.). After that the update check found some 100+ important updates and installed everything.

    I hope I could help somebody else with this solution.
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  3. Lee J
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    W7 x64
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    Copied from another thread in case it assists anybody....

    I had this problem when setting up a new PC from a W7 SP1 CD. Update ran for 32 hours, and then crashed when I tried to install 220 updates. As an added bonus Update backed out all the updates which had been installed.
    I turned off automatic updates and ran Update again. It ran for 26 hours and I selected the only first 50 updates to be installed. This ran ok.
    I then ran Update again, but after six hours I turned off the PC and went to bed.
    I tried re-installing the Update agent, and tried running Update again, but after an hour I cancelled it.
    I tried re-installing the Update agent, and run the fix tool for Windows Update that made two fixes. I ran the Update, and cancelled it after two hours.

    I re-installed the Update agent, ran the Update fix tool, and installed https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3102810 which is mentioned in this thread. Ran Update again, and two minutes later it said there was 200 updates for my PC.

    For the future I have a W7 Update folder with (1) the Update Agent, (2) the Update Fix-Tool, and (3) KB3102810.

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