i'm going to sloppily not read anything in the thread & say that installing
Windows6.1-KB3020369-x64 &
windows6.1-kb3172605-x64 (if one says 'not for your system', run the other) on a SP1 installation that has been updated until around the time of the change to rollups (summer 2016) results in the update check dropping down to some minutes to an hour (depending on cpu single thread performance) as opposed to the 20+ hours it took on my sandy laptop cpu that was updated to november
boy that was a long 'sentence'
i saw that tip in some site's thread or article written by people trying to pay attention to which updates fix WU's checker
for a clean SP1 installation, back in the summer i had to do something similar, but i dont remember which installers fixed it then
oh & i dont actually accept every update in general, so i may have accidentally missed one of the speed up WU patches since i was avoiding a lot of that GWX crap, some of which was too innocently worded
edit: i can find the article that mentioned those two i specified at the top if someone wants, just quote me, it should be somewhere in browser history but i'm not in front of it at the moment
edit2:
Be careful with that big update rollup if you have an AMD card - I have Rx 480 and the installer doesn't detect any AMD hardware with that update installed. Hopefully will be eventually fixed by AMD, but until then...
no issue seen on kaveri but drivers were already installed, are you saying if i run the recent .2 or whatever it was whql from january that it will fail or is it a polaris exclusive issue?