See Eric Abutin's post way above. It worked for me, after many months of frustration. Be aware that it may take a few hours of patience while his suggestion works on your computer. Follow his method exactly. Good luck.
Windows 7 - Windows update stuck at 0kb 0%
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I have windows 7, and for the past few months I am unable to update windows.
Windows update is stuck at downloading 0kb 0% and after viewing all the similar posts around the web regarding this problem I still cant fix it, even after trying everything (stopping and restarting the service, disabling av and firewall, delete softwaredistribute folder and so on...).
Im desperate, please help.
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2017-05-17T15:34:36+00:00 My computer is stuck trying to down load updates, how do I fix this it appears to be in a loop just searching for the updates?
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Anonymous
2017-05-17T01:06:32+00:00 Yup! I had to do it multiple times but this (bizarrely) solved the issue! Thanks for posting as I was going nuts trying everything else! :-)
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Anonymous
2017-05-16T20:22:41+00:00 This likewise seems to have fixed my continuing Windows 7 update problems so far. However, a comment that this process may take HOURS would have been nice. Thanks Eric...
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Anonymous
2017-05-15T18:40:44+00:00 Backup your files.
Format C:\
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