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Like others (long lisst on this board....), I have no luck doing windows update after wiping my HD and re-loading Win7 from fresh. This is an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe MB with 3 Gb of memory with AMD64/4400+ Athlon 64 processor with OS on a Kingston 120 Gb SSDNow 300 SSD. Win7 is with SP1.
This will happens with no other software installed (i.e. anti-virus) and immediately after OS installation.. No problem at all with any hardware in “Device Manager”. The machine will communicate with the web just fine since I went directly to MS and download/ install IE11 which is working and e-mail is also working. I have tried:
I MS no longer supporting new win7 installs?
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So... How did you fixed it? A fresh Win7 installation just like that man stated on his thread? I just finished installing and updating my drivers and restored my backup... Well, I think M$ wants to kill Win7 sooner. But I really hope that they fix this mess that they've made with WU. -_-
A lot of problems arise from setting Windows Update to automatically update. You may prefer to change this setting. Select Start, All Programs, Windows Update, Change Settings. Under Important Updates is a box showing the current setting. Click on the Arrow down to the right and change the selection to “Check for Updates but let me choose whether to download and install them” and click on OK. Restart your computer.
Select Start, All Programs, Windows Update, Check for Updates. If optional updates are available click optional updates and make sure that the box before Upgrade to Windows 10 is unchecked. Right click on Upgrade to Windows 10 and select Hide this Update. Check the boxes before the remaining updates. Click on Install and click again on Install in the next window and the process of installing starts. You should let the process proceed without interruption. Multi-tasking at the time updating is in progress is unwise. The progress window will tell you what is going on. You need to be patient. Restart the computer when prompted to do so.
You may find that Upgrade to Windows 10 does not stay hidden. If that happens repeat the exercise.
Right click on the Start button and select Properties, Taskbar tab. Click Customise (under Notification area). In the next window place the cursor on GWX 1 and use the scroll 2 to change the behaviour to Hide icon and notifications 3 and click OK 4 . You may need to uncheck the box before Always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar to be able to change the GWX icon behaviour.
You need to read my post on March 5th. It's all in there.
Yeah, but I need to install a fresh Windows 7 to do that.
Yes, NONE of this applies if you don't want to do a fresh Win7 install. If you don't have the install disc I can understand. But if you do, a Win 7 install is easy compared to fighting the problem you have - I should know since I have gone through Win 7 install like 7 times.... I understand its a pain to reinstall the applications, but at this point you only have one option other than not getting updates and at least to me, having that one option is like a God send compared to where I was stuck at last week.... Just saying i.e. be thankful - I am....
