original title: Windows 7 Checking For Updates stuck forever - I know this is answered, but the solutions don't work for me. Please see details! I have installed a legit Windows 7 OS on my laptop. Its not an upgrade, it was a blank hard drive. WIndows 7 installed flawlessly, picked up all my drivers. The only problem is I am having problems with Windows 7 updates. When I choose Windows 7 update, it says "Checking for updates" and stays like that - forever. Even the next day. I did heavy heavy research, found out others are having the same problem. I tried all the fixes I could find, which are listed below: No Anti-virus programs installed yet - brand new Windows 7 ultimate installation There is no spyware - its a brand new clean install Firewall shut off Temp files, cookies, history cleared background intelligent transfer service set to automatic in services.msc software distribution folder renamed tried shutting off automatic updates and doing it manually Added windowsupdate to trust zone ran MicrosoftFixit50202 in normal and advanced mode Even with my internet SHUT OFF (turned off modem) it still checks for updates and doesn't fail with "No internet connection available". Please, please help. Anyone.

Problem solved. It was my internet connection!! I logged onto my neighbors via wireless unsecured (ssh... don't tell lol), and within 30 seconds, 77 updates came through! It has to be something in my network. Thanks for helping though!! Most people do not realize that ISPs and even browsers may have hidden "security" programs, including junk mail, anti-virus, and anti-malware protection. When I found my AT&T program was "protecting" me, I found many emails that even included replies to email I had sent out (that I did not receive). I am sure that this is just the "tip of the iceberg" as it seems like everybody is spying on us now-a-days.

150+ updates is certainly to be expected on a mature system. 98, XP, and Vista are extremely outdated. 7, not so much. It runs IE 11, and extended support does not end until 2020. Considering 8's virtues, it's fair to say that 7 was replaced only ten months ago, nothing close to long enough to work around old application software, old drivers and other system-level software, hardware that might not be adequate for 10, and how to update hundreds to tens of thousands of internal PCs and portable devices that might not be in the office every day. The problem is not that 150+ updates take a long time to download and install, but that the update procedure has bugs that make it run for days building the list of needed updates before it ever downloads the first one, if you let it run that long. A few of the 2804 people (and counting) who have responded to this thread have documented ways to work around bugs that have hurt thousands of customers for years before Microsoft finally produced a post-SP1 rollup - see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3125574 . I wonder if a freshly-installed SP1 image can get the rollup without first updating Windows Update? Next time I have to install a clean 7, I'll download the rollup on a good machine and install it before ever running Windows Update.

150 updates is normal since you are using an extremely outdated version of windows 7 installer iso. so basically what is happening is your computer is getting every update since 2010(im pretty sure ie8 is 2010). Expect to see more after the 150 lol.

Windows 7 Checking For Updates stuck forever

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original title: Windows 7 Checking For Updates stuck forever - I know this is answered, but the solutions don't work for me. Please see details!

I have installed a legit Windows 7 OS on my laptop. Its not an upgrade, it was a blank hard drive. WIndows 7 installed flawlessly, picked up all my drivers. The only problem is I am having problems with Windows 7 updates. When I choose Windows 7 update, it says "Checking for updates" and stays like that - forever. Even the next day. I did heavy heavy research, found out others are having the same problem. I tried all the fixes I could find, which are listed below:

No Anti-virus programs installed yet - brand new Windows 7 ultimate installation
There is no spyware - its a brand new clean install
Firewall shut off
Temp files, cookies, history cleared
background intelligent transfer service set to automatic in services.msc
software distribution folder renamed
tried shutting off automatic updates and doing it manually
Added windowsupdate to trust zone
ran MicrosoftFixit50202 in normal and advanced mode

Even with my internet SHUT OFF (turned off modem) it still checks for updates and doesn't fail with "No internet connection available".

Please, please help. Anyone.

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Problem solved.

It was my internet connection!! I logged onto my neighbors via wireless unsecured (ssh... don't tell lol), and within 30 seconds, 77 updates came through!

It has to be something in my network.

Thanks for helping though!!

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2016-06-16T11:03:34+00:00

Problem solved.

It was my internet connection!! I logged onto my neighbors via wireless unsecured (ssh... don't tell lol), and within 30 seconds, 77 updates came through!

It has to be something in my network.

Thanks for helping though!!

Most people do not realize that ISPs and even browsers may have hidden "security" programs, including junk mail, anti-virus, and anti-malware protection. When I found my AT&T program was "protecting" me, I found many emails that even included replies to email I had sent out (that I did not receive). I am sure that this is just the "tip of the iceberg" as it seems like everybody is spying on us now-a-days.
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2016-06-01T17:41:02+00:00

150+ updates is certainly to be expected on a mature system. 98, XP, and Vista are extremely outdated. 7, not so much. It runs IE 11, and extended support does not end until 2020. Considering 8's virtues, it's fair to say that 7 was replaced only ten months ago, nothing close to long enough to work around old application software, old drivers and other system-level software, hardware that might not be adequate for 10, and how to update hundreds to tens of thousands of internal PCs and portable devices that might not be in the office every day.

The problem is not that 150+ updates take a long time to download and install, but that the update procedure has bugs that make it run for days building the list of needed updates before it ever downloads the first one, if you let it run that long.

A few of the 2804 people (and counting) who have responded to this thread have documented ways to work around bugs that have hurt thousands of customers for years before Microsoft finally produced a post-SP1 rollup - see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3125574 .

I wonder if a freshly-installed SP1 image can get the rollup without first updating Windows Update? Next time I have to install a clean 7, I'll download the rollup on a good machine and install it before ever running Windows Update.
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2016-06-01T16:48:13+00:00

150 updates is normal since you are using an extremely outdated version of windows 7 installer iso. so basically what is happening is your computer is getting every update since 2010(im pretty sure ie8 is 2010). Expect to see more after the 150 lol.
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