August 2015 Windows Update for Vista Requires One Hour to Run to Completion

I have also encountered this problem every Patch Tuesday beginning August 2015 and including January 2016. My hunch is that Windows Update is scanning Vista SP2 systems in connection with the Windows 10 upgrade that Vista does not even qualify for. If that is the case, then Microsoft should kindly give Vista an update similar to this one that Windows 7 received in June 2015: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3050265#%2Fen-us%2Fkb%2F3050265

Another possibility is that Microsoft's servers are simply inadequate!

I encountered the 40 minutes  or so 'checking for updates' time butthis time around there was no problem with the processor locked up at 100% like there was before.

Vista is still a supported OS, and the fact MS seem to be 'penalising' users in this way really annoys me.

Just reporting that I saw no change when I tried to install this month's September 2015 Patch Tuesday updates for Vista. I ran a manual Windows Update on 10-Sep-2015 and got stuck at Checking for updates... for 40 min before WU reported that 1 recommended and 14 important updates were available for download. The entire update process, including downloads and installs, took just over one hour.

Here's what the CPU consumption looked like for my 10-Sep-2015 Windows Update, with:

• "Checking for updates..." running for 40 min between the 73 and 33 min marks (with svchost.exe saturating one of my cores and constantly consuming 50% of CPU between 60 and 33 min marks)
• Downloads, installs and monthly Malicious Software Removal scan between 33 and 13 min marks
• Re-boot to finish installation (dark grey band) at 8 min mark

32-bit Vista Home Premium SP2 * Firefox 40.0.3 * IE9 * NIS 2014 v. 21.7.0.11

HP Pavilion dv6835ca, Intel Core2Duo T5550 @ 1.83 GHz, 3 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

This sounds like one of those problems you need to be sat in front of unfortunately.

Unplugging the CPU (you mean you removed it from its socket ?) could have caused any number of issues. Faced with this I would need to prove the PC good by doing a quick and dirty clean install of either Vista/W7/W8.1 to confirm all hardware is OK.

If it is OK then restore back to a good disk image... please tell me you have full system images... they are a life saver for disasters like this.

Good luck, I hope you find a solution... Vista still rocks :)

On Monday, August 17th, I changed my settings to automatic updates (no idea why I did this) and it took a very long time, finally locking up my system. I couldn't do anything, so unplugged the cpu. (bad idea).

Then when I tried to reboot, I didn't get past the login, but got a black screen and a message that (WINDOWS CALENDATD HAS STOPPED".

I had an APPCRASH, here's the problem signature. I posted this on the Windows forum and since so few people use Vista now, I haven't gotten any help. I can get on the net using the path at the bottom. Also I have looked in Task Manager and it looks like I lost most of the processes that reside in my computer, although it shows them all in Other User. (although there is no other user) Wonder if I can copy and paste these...?

I really need some help. I only know enough to be dangerous. Everything I have done has only made things worse. For instance I reverted to the default boot and now my drives and usb are not recognized...HELP!!

Problem signature:

  Problem Event Name: APPCRASH

  Application Name: WinCal.exe

  Application Version: 6.0.6002.18005

  Application Timestamp: 49e01e83

  Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll

  Fault Module Version: 6.0.6002.19454

  Fault Module Timestamp: 55ae6e00

  Exception Code: c0000022

  Exception Offset: 00009f55

  OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3

  Locale ID: 4105

  Additional Information 1: 9d13

  Additional Information 2: 1abee00edb3fc1158f9ad6f44f0f6be8

  Additional Information 3: 9d13

  Additional Information 4: 1abee00edb3fc1158f9ad6f44f0f6be8

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