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.

Haven't tried this yet, but seems like another way of performing more reliable updates using a VBscript: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa387102%28VS.85%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

im having the same problem with an acer aspire tried everything.. now if i take that same windows disk and put it in my dell laptop works flawless. i even swapped the hard-drive from my aser to my dell and still will not update. and there is a serious lagg issue the computer is at idle nothing open but update center and its using 90-100% cpu and 90-100% ram the computer is unusable and the cause of it is svc host something to do with windows

Setting an automatic update an hour in the immediate future is a good idea, since the manual process won't start until all data is fetched, and that part is a bit broken with the huge amount of RAM and resources taken by the Windows Update Agent. The bad thing is you need to be waiting next to the computer every hour to check and reassign this semi-automatic update behavior. I'm impressed on how Micro$oft keeps sabotaging it's own software with those malware style updates they are deploying. Even though they have updated several times over the YEARS that WUA memory leak, it has got worse with all the telemetry sh*t it tries to process and install. Since many of my clients are getting those ninja windows 10 updates on their low end machines, trying to revert sometimes is not possible and a new clean install must be made. And THAT really IS a huge pain, since there is more than 200 updates waiting to be applied after a fresh Win 7 SP1 install is made. For that I've found a third party program which makes an automatic gathering of the updates from microsoft's own catalog and applies em. Its name is "WSUS Offline Update ...since security, time and bandwidth are money.". It doesn't apply all the updates, but it's an awesome update primer. Got to admit some German programmer is better on that simple idea than the flock of micro$oft guys out there (even in the slogan that wit is present).

I also made that change, so far the repeat restarting seems to be stopped. Crossing my fingers!

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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Anonymous

2016-03-25T04:45:52+00:00

Haven't tried this yet, but seems like another way of performing more reliable updates using a VBscript:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa387102%28VS.85%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
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2016-03-24T21:11:28+00:00

im having the same problem with an acer aspire tried everything.. now if i take that same windows disk and put it in my dell laptop works flawless. i even swapped the hard-drive from my aser to my dell and still will not update. and there is a serious lagg issue the computer is at idle nothing open but update center and its using 90-100% cpu and 90-100% ram the computer is unusable and the cause of it is svc host something to do with windows
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2016-03-23T06:54:46+00:00

Setting an automatic update an hour in the immediate future is a good idea, since the manual process won't start until all data is fetched, and that part is a bit broken with the huge amount of RAM and resources taken by the Windows Update Agent. The bad thing is you need to be waiting next to the computer every hour to check and reassign this semi-automatic update behavior.

I'm impressed on how Micro$oft keeps sabotaging it's own software with those malware style updates they are deploying. Even though they have updated several times over the YEARS that WUA memory leak, it has got worse with all the telemetry sh*t it tries to process and install.

Since many of my clients are getting those ninja windows 10 updates on their low end machines, trying to revert sometimes is not possible and a new clean install must be made. And THAT really IS a huge pain, since there is more than 200 updates waiting to be applied after a fresh Win 7 SP1 install is made.

For that I've found a third party program which makes an automatic gathering of the updates from microsoft's own catalog and applies em. Its name is "WSUS Offline Update ...since security, time and bandwidth are money.". It doesn't apply all the updates, but it's an awesome update primer. Got to admit some German programmer is better on that simple idea than the flock of micro$oft guys out there (even in the slogan that wit is present).
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Anonymous

2016-03-21T18:30:33+00:00

I also made that change, so far the repeat restarting seems to be stopped. Crossing my fingers!
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