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My Windows 7 machine will not download updates. I have the system setup for manual selection and installation of updates. When I choose the updates I want and say download, the "Downloading updates" screen displays and does nothing. It says it is downloading 123 updates, but it sits at 0 KB total, 0% complete. Please help.
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if Windows 7 have troubles to find updates, causing high CPU or RAM usage with the process Svchost.exe, it is due that Windows Update was not able to update automatically the Windows Update Client.
in this case, you need to download the update manually, this is the most recent version for now: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3138612
Note: if you have troubles to install this update, stop "Windows Update" service, and fastly try to install the update.
We are well over 10 minutes and nothing has changed. Still checking for updates.
don't worry is normal because my tool cleanup the update history, so it will look like when you install Windows for first time.
it should take around 10 minutes.
Another curious thing. In the Checking for updates window, it says:
Most recent check for updates: Never
Updates were installed: Never
Update history is empty.
But then I view installed updates from the Control Panel, and I see that updates were installed as recently as 5/5.
