Windows 7 checking for updates forever
January 26th, 2020
Usually fixes it self after a couple of days if you keep trying to update.. There is 101 different fixes which usually dont seem to work for some reason… But if you want to continue trying, the most common fix that works is deleting the downloaded patches. This is because a patch half dled, but fked up.. Google where are win 7 updates stored, and you will get an answer of where to delete to save me the trouble (In windows directory some where, but I forget off the top my head..). If that doesn’t work, just wait it out a week or so…
https://toolslib.net/downloads/finish/21
try this windows update fix.. run as administrator and checkmark all boxes. click on any clickable “Automatique” and then click on “Executer”. it will ask you for restart after its done. It will fix the issue.
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I solved my issue by going into control pa power options (using icon view instead of category view) Then I set sleep mode to never. I think what was happening to me was the PC would go to sleep after 20min and every time I woke it up the update would start over. At first I thought it was just the monitor saving power but since it was a fresh install and sleep was set to 20min. by default I didn’t realize it was going to sleep. It still took around an hour and a half for it to finally connect but it did get there this time.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html
Basically open a command prompt as admin then type sfc /scannow
The link breaks it down to laymans terms a bit more.
Whereas some have complained about Windows waking up for automatic updates
Others have definitely had problems with sleep stopping update searching.
So it looks like problem solved!
http://superuser.com/questions/951960/windows-7-sp1-windows-update-stuck-checking-for-updates
Now be careful or you will end up with Windows 10
System file checker found nothing, update troubleshooter repaired 3 errors, sleep mode is turned off and it still can’t find any updates.However when i switched from “check for updates but let me choose…” to “install updates automatically” it still couldn’t find anything, but when I checked update history many of them appeared (they all failed to download and/or install).
dont worry about updates. They never help anyway. Sometimes they fail because of your hardware configuration or your computer model as they are not compatible with it.
if you are using a brand new win 7 install which it looks like from your activation thread, then it is a windows update which you need to get updates working. i had the same problems myself until i installed the latest windows update client patch, after which updates work considerably better/faster.
there are a few updates which fix updates/patches install problems, which i had a number of problems. i d/l all updates with autopatcher and install with that but even that ran into problems with extremely slow install, mind numbingly slow.
i, like many other people, think that M$ is purposely making updates difficult for all windows systems other than 10. you have to install updates to get updates to work on older windows os’ ands those updates are meant to make it easier for in place upgrades to 10 which many people do not want! kb3112343 dec win update client fixed slow installs for me.
get macrium reflect and backup your partition before you update anything else once you test some basic updates which you have read are ok to install! once you are all up to date and everything is working do another partition backup as it takes quite some time to get everything updated with all the reboots even with a ssd
avoid kb3021917 as it may increase chances of an auto up/downgrade to win 10. there are quite a few that i did not want including “fixes” which prevent unsigned drivers to be installed. imo it pays to read through the updates before installing unless you can keep imagining your partition after each reboot. its a pita but if you image your partition you should not need to do it again so it pays to get it right imo. the better macrium reflect does allow to install to other hardware which is a good idea but risking getting a cracked version and infecting your system is a bit of a gamble imo. do not rely on an anti virus with any crack/patched appz is my advice
Windows update agent was updated automatically.
did it fix it? have you got updates working now?
No, it was updated before i made this thread.
are you absolutely certain that the update that i mentioned, kb3112343 is installed, appears in the list of updates and shows as installed correctly ie not marked as failed?
it was after i installed that update after i d/l’d from M$ that updates began to work but it was not the first thing that i tried therefore it could be a combination of things that fixed it for me. i did d/l a very large update >500MB shortly before that,Windows6.1-KB947821-v34-x64.msu which did not seem to fix it. it may of contributed to the fix.
be aware that there are many different versions of the windows update client, m$ seems to release a new version every month or 2 to fix problems with earlier versions.
at first i tried autopatcher because i had already d/l’d all the updates and did not want to have to re-d/l them again but when i attempted to install any updates from my hard drive the installation was extremely slow taking hours to install a few updates. it spent a very long time searching/checking for something and the install froze at 99% for hours. i tried windows update and the d/l was very slow and so was the install.
it might be worth you trying autopatcher, you can get it from the autopatcher forum.
http://www.autopatcher.net/forum/
run it and select only a few basic things such as the c++ runtime files which you are almost certain to install at some point. you select the updates you want such as updates for various versions of windows, updates to office, extras etc. first it downloads the updates that you select and then it moves onto the update selection where you can choose which updates you want to install. just try the c++ files and watch how long it takes to install them. you might have similar problems with slow install and very long checking before they install. it might help to know whether the install is working correctly, then you will know whether it is only a d/l problem or whether there is a problem with the actual install as well. I had both problems. fixing both finally fixed the problems that i was having.
if they install without any problems then you can do the updates with autopatcher which will mean that you only need to d/l the updates once and the files can be used if you ever need to install updates in future on a new pc build. if they do not install then it will most likely mean that another update is also required. lets face it, windows update is broken as are many of the updates themselves with one update breaking another.
I’m talking about an update called “windows update agent 7.6”, it’s probably not kb3112343.
EDIT: kb3112343 fixed it, it found over 200 updates after few minutes.
dont worry about updates. They never help anyway. Sometimes they fail because of your hardware configuration or your computer model as they are not compatible with it.
I agree and wont update unless I need a feature or something is broke , I have over 200 updates wanting to install on my Win 7 , my machines are fast and stable and well protected , updates cause problems a lot of the time , my motto with PC software running on my machines is dont fix what is not broke .
I hadn`t had any Windows 7 updates download and install since mid January, and for some unknown reason today (April 1st) there are 24 updates downloading. Mysterious!!