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Stuck forever on Checking for updates...
Like many other users, I'm currently experiencing the issue of Windows Update being stuck while in the Checking for updates phase. I last successfully installed updates thanks to a third party tool that does such things, although I would like to get Windows Updates working again. I do have SP1 installed.
I've tried many different versions of the Windows Update Reset dance (deleting SoftwareDistribution, catroot2), I've tried running the System Update Readiness Tool, I've tried running SFC (which only finds d3d9 libraries as corrupt, makes sense because Virtualbox overwrites them). I've also tried running Tweaking.com's Windows Repair tool, the official MS Windows Update repair tool, and the .NET Repair tool, because why not. No luck anywhere.
Since the update process gets hung up while Checking for updates, there do not appear to be any error codes to report. I've tried searching the System event log and the WindowsUpdate log without any success. svchost.exe will consume a full thread's worth of processing time (100%) which indicates to me that the update search has stopped.
The last line in the WindowsUpdate.log file to be found before the update search stops is this:
Please see the attached WindowsUpdate.log file for a full view of the update process, from when I start the wuauserv service, to when I eventually kill it. Stopping the service apparently causes it to issue an 0x8024000B error. Please also find attached my CBS log folder as requested in the posting guidelines.Code:2016-04-16 18:02:39:082 936 7a0 PT + ServiceId = {7971F918-A847-4430-9279-4A52D1EFE18D}, Server URL = https://fe2.update.microsoft.com/v6/ClientWebService/client.asmx
Thank you!