Great news! With it, I was able to download all the KBs successfully. I then set 'Windows Update' to " Download updates but let me choose whether to install them " and I was able to receive important updates in less than 15 minutes! I am now in the process of installing these updates! I will tend the 6 Optional Updates later. VZ, you have been great help and I sincerely thank you! Do I have to re-enter those KBs again? Noticed the Windows Update was still 'checking for updates' after 24 hours, so Questions: Am I doing it correctly?
What does the 3 above mean? What is the next step I must take? I have the same question 3. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Previous Next. Volume Z. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. AskWoody Plus members not only get access to all of the contents of this site -- including Susan Bradley's frequently updated Patch Watch listing -- they also receive weekly AskWoody Plus Newsletters formerly Windows Secrets Newsletter and AskWoody Plus Alerts, emails when there are important breaking developments.
Click here for details and to sign up. Want to Advertise in the free newsletter? How about a gift subscription in honor of a birthday? Send an email to sb askwoody. Free Newsletter Signup. This will launch Services. From the list of applications, right-click Windows Updates and select Stop. Remove all the files in the folder. This is where Windows temporarily stores the files it downloaded.
Go back to Services and right-click Windows Update again. This time click Restart. If the issue still persists, you can use Windows Update Troubleshooter. It will once again ask you to select a program.
Select Windows Update and click Next. Thanks in advance. Click on Start, click Run, type services. Locate Windows Update. Right click on the service and select Properties. In Start-up type, select Enable. Click Start under Service status. Click OK. Troubleshoot problems with installing updates FixIt.
FixIt usually "fixes it". Now the update process can take a long time searching for updates since it is a fresh install. You can also take a look at this article which may help. Thanks for the reply, all the services are already running and I had previously tried the fixit script s with no luck, I've left it "checking for updates It's not actually giving any error messages like in the 1st link you provided, it just gets stuck on "checking for updates I tried a lot of the stuff in the links anyway but still nothing.
Almost tempted to just install Windows 7 with a spare license I have because I've wasted hours trying to get this working. I did a fresh install of Windows 7 SP I'm confused. Any other ideas? I recently experienced a similar issue with a fresh installation of Windows Vista SP2.
Have you tried CheckSUR? I should note that it did not work for me when I had issues it also hung , so perhaps you should try to wait for the "checking for updates As I said, my update process unfortunately required patience, so my advice would be to wait it out if none of the listed suggestions work for you.
Perhaps this could be done overnight or something. I'm going to ask a really stupid question because I've had this happen before, but is the time and date set correctly? I've fresh installed Win 7 before and it refused to install updates due to the date and time being out of sync. I imagine you have that covered, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask. Also look at this.
Last time I checked for updates I had it sit there for an hour.. Finally it came back with updates. Just walk away it will eventually finish.
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