ultimate99 Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 A fresh install of win7 pro sp1, I left the computer overnight to update and it's still Checking for updates..... Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xendrome Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 Download this - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/111413/AMD64-all-windows6.1-kb3125574-v4-x64_2dafb1d203c8964239af3048b5dd4b1264cd93b9.msu Disconnect internet from the system, install it, reboot, then hook back up internet and get the additional updates https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3125574 Danielx64 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MS Bob 11 Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 Fix Windows Update stuck on Checking for Updates: http://winaero.com/blog/fix-windows-update-stuck-on-checking-for-updates/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danielx64 Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 (edited) 21 minutes ago, xendrome said: Download this - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/111413/AMD64-all-windows6.1-kb3125574-v4-x64_2dafb1d203c8964239af3048b5dd4b1264cd93b9.msu Disconnect internet from the system, install it, reboot, then hook back up internet and get the additional updates https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3125574 Or https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsitpro/2016/05/17/simplifying-updates-for-windows-7-and-8-1/ install 2 updates and then run WU. goretsky 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xpgeek Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 This is driving me absolutely freakin crazy. Replaced a Samsung 840evo SSD with a 850pro, so had to reinstall Win7 on it yesterday. Have followed all the steps on all those sites, installed the prerequisites then the April big rollup package, first check for WindowsUpdates to get the rest, literally almost 24 hours later and was still checking. So did what one of those sites there said to do, manually installed the August 2016 cumulative update while offline, now back online and checking for updates again, for the past 3 hours. Nothing seems to fix this, and its driving me absolutely bonkers. Guess it'll just finish eventuallyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, before the end of the month would be nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xpgeek Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 Well it finally finished checking, at 2 am, 11 hours after I started the check for updates again at at 3pm. Wasn't even that many, 37 critical and important updates, 28 optionals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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