FIXED!! Windows 7 sp1 never ends searching for updates

[eidairaman1]

https://www.askwoody.com/2016/an-official-fix-for-slow-windows-7-update-scan-times/
https://www.askwoody.com/2017/how-would-you-install-win7-from-scratch/
https://www.askwoody.com/2017/has-microsoft-finally-solved-the-windows-7-slow-update-problem/

I Use these Updates In Particular (other than any monthly updates at bottom)
http://wu.krelay.de/en/

 

[nomdeplume]

Honestly had no idea as recent as the 13th a sweeping change had taken place. Actually looked at askwoody and gave up a page too soon.

 

[Jetster]

I have a reserve partition I just did that's not even SP1 I have to deal with when I get home

 

[blobster21]

@Solaris17 I have struggled with this little piece of shi...ne (Asus eeepc T101MT / Windows 7 32 bits, not even SP1) for the last 40hours and the damn thing would not get updates.

Wsus offline miserably failed to do the job after hammering the CPU all night long + the morning after, and that's when i remembered this thread and your script !

At this point you saved my week end, I've got all sunday afternoon left to complete 125+ updates, and get this fine piece of crapware to its owner.

One comment though : maybe i did not leave the computer alone long enough, but except for the last stage, i had to reboot manually in between each 5 stages.

Thanks for this great script !

 

[Solaris17]

@Solaris17 I have struggled with this little piece of shi...ne (Asus eeepc T101MT / Windows 7 32 bits, not even SP1) for the last 40hours and the damn thing would not get updates.

Wsus offline miserably failed to do the job after hammering the CPU all night long + the morning after, and that's when i remembered this thread and your script !

At this point you saved my week end, I've got all sunday afternoon left to complete 125+ updates, and get this fine piece of crapware to its owner.

One comment though : maybe i did not leave the computer alone long enough, but except for the last stage, i had to reboot manually in between each 5 stages.

Thanks for this great script !

No problem! Thank you so much glad it helped! I am aware that sometimes it stalls I have a new version I am testing right now that might alleviate it to some degree. On a basic level it's the actual exe patches that are stalling and unfortunately Microsoft does not give me a way to monitor them. It's a small trade off.

 

[Jetster]

I just did two that were pre SP1 and they updated to SP1 by themselves, within 30 min. Then I applied the Solaris patch. No issues

 

[Melvis]

How do I stop the patch program from popping up everytime I turn on or reboot the PC? its not wanting to work on W8.1 Pro and just want it to go away but I cant stop it, any ideas?

 

[Jetster]

I did the same thing. Just run msconfig and delete it there

 

[Kursah]

How do I stop the patch program from popping up everytime I turn on or reboot the PC? its not wanting to work on W8.1 Pro and just want it to go away but I cant stop it, any ideas?

Yep as @Jetster said, use MSCONFIG and remove the startup entry.

But something could very likely be wrong with your OS, could be corruptions causing issues or even a corrupted update cache...I've seen both A LOT in 7 and 8, and even 10.

I'd suggest you run an SFC /scannow on your OS and see if there's issues that are preventing the next stage of updates to occur or fail to be detected. Is your install failing to update?

If SFC finds issues, DISM would be next. Check out the Windows repair thread in my sig for further instructions. That might help to get you where you were going with the whole update process anyways.

 

[Melvis]

All good thanks guys, I figured it out by disconnecting the PC from the internet triggered it again and was able to finish the proccess, strange!

 

[RejZoR]

Interesting, tried installing Windows 7 on my crappy laptop yesterday and updating went fine. No infinite looking for updates and I haven't done anything compared to the last time...

 

[Ahhzz]

Interesting, tried installing Windows 7 on my crappy laptop yesterday and updating went fine. No infinite looking for updates and I haven't done anything compared to the last time...

Little known information.
Back in about 2013 or so, we had a client using an email provider, who was providing Exchange services thru Microsoft for the end user. One day, I get a call to the location, and every single computer on Windows XP had stopped connecting to the server. The two computers running Windows 7 were just fine. I contacted the vendor, and I get one of the few high-level guys in the business. He explains that they've been dealing with the issue all day. Microsoft had changed their exchange server, and it would no longer respond to WinXP computers unless we pointed them directly at the IP, not the name of the server.
Moral of the story? M$ will change things on their servers to make things harder for end users, and never tell anyone. Every now and then, they screw up and either undo those changes, or make things easier. They still don't tell anyone.

 

[RejZoR]

It actually made it easier in this case

Though I had weird problems with WLAN dropping connection and failing to connect for no reason. With driver that worked before and I had it backed up for this very purpose because this Broadcom wasn't detected by default by Win7. But visit to Station Drivers solved it

The updating though is just silly on Win7. Sure it's on crappy weak laptop, but same laptop does Windows 10 updates in a breeze. Win7 needed 6 full hours to do just critical system updates. I didn't even start working with optional ones XD

 

[Kursah]

This link is worth adding here: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Reset-Windows-Update-Agent-d824badc

Microsoft script that supports a lot of OSes, just used to repair update issues on a 2012R2 VM that was not responding to the standard cleanup methods. Hope someone finds it useful!

 

[lorraine walsh]

I usually download those trusted custom updated isos example(march 2016) and put my own key.

It really saves lots of bs and hassle

Lol yes and sometimes auto retrieve are on the go.

It actually made it easier in this case

Though I had weird problems with WLAN dropping connection and failing to connect for no reason. With driver that worked before and I had it backed up for this very purpose because this Broadcom wasn't detected by default by Win7. But visit to Station Drivers solved it

The updating though is just silly on Win7. Sure it's on crappy weak laptop, but same laptop does Windows 10 updates in a breeze. Win7 needed 6 full hours to do just critical system updates. I didn't even start working with optional ones XD

same laptop does Windows 10 updates in a breeze. Win7 needed 6 full hours to do just critical system updates. I q100% agreed on the point.

 

[Jetster]

Just did a clean install. Ran the Solaris patch. Now this error???

An error occurred while checking
Code 8E5E442

 

[Solaris17]

hm Iv never even heard of that specific code before. Are you sure you let it get through its automation? It reboots the Pc like 5 times.

ODD though could you get a screen shot of what and where its saying this? I have used it almost everyday since I made it with no issues.

 

[Jetster]

I'm starting over. I think I forgot to shut off updates before I started

 

[Solaris17]

I'm starting over. I think I forgot to shut off updates before I started

just remember to let it reboot the script with have at the top

STAGE: x of 6

and will let you know when its done.

As for the updates very much yes make sure you dont even attempt to do them. since the batch is handling single updates (this calls and connects to the windows update executable on the machine)

 

[Jetster]

Same thing. It finishes then when I turn windows updates back on it say it has to download new update software. Then the error Code 8E5E442

During the batch file process I remember install updates when it restarted. It didn't do this, this time

I've done this at least 10 times before never had an issue

 

[Solaris17]

Same thing. It finishes then when I turn windows updates back on it say it has to download new update software. Then the error Code 8E5E442

During the batch file process I remember install updates when it restarted. It didn't do this, this time

I've done this at least 10 times before never had an issue

hm im not sure are you shutting down the actual update service? you dont have to do that and that might even break it. Just dont go to windows updates and hit "Check for updates" otherwise you dont need to touch it or disable it. Maybe thats the problem? iv never tried installing updates manually with any part of windows updates disabled. You just dont want them searching for or doing updates when you are trying to install some.

 

[Jetster]

I just go to settings and select don't check for updates./ After I finish the clean install
Then when its done all 6 steps I set it to check for updates

It might be the wireless messing it up. But this is what I've always done

 

[Solaris17]

I just go to settings and select don't check for updates./ After I finish the clean install
Then when its done all 6 steps I set it to check for updates

It might be the wireless messing it up. But this is what I've always done

weird man. I will spin up a VM to test on for ya I did this not 3 days ago at the shop but just in case something changed in windows update. It will have to wait till tomorrow though.

 

[Jetster]

I'm just holding off for now and finishing the install. Later Ill try it plugged in to the lan. Thanks Ill get back

 

[Melvis]

Just a quick question while this thread is up, I have used the latest patch for Vista and it didnt work, still cant get updates for it, any ideas?