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As of today 12 April 2016 Window 7 SP1 hangs in searching for updates. Unlike other postings in 2015, their is no Orchestrator service in services.msc. Prior to today Windows update was working fine. Why is this happening? Is there any other way to get these updates. I have restarted the OS to no benefit.
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Just a matter of checking for updates on off peak hours when server load is lower
No, it's your slow cpu.
All i know is when M$ pushes a Russian time zone update as Important you have to wonder what the heck is going on really :p
Most likely the US military needs to be on the same page as the Russians. MS agrees to mark it as important instead of personnel frantically digging for it later in the long list of optional updates.
Just a matter of checking for updates on off peak hours when server load is lower
Heck M$ may have halted distribution and working on a recall
Blood bath in the win-10 round
All i know is when M$ pushes a Russian time zone update as Important you have to wonder what the heck is going on really :p
Why is this happening? Is there any other way to get these updates. I have restarted the OS to no benefit.
Honestly, there's nothing much we can do. They purposely do this to force users to update to Windows 10.
I read somewhere the process bar doesn't actually tell you the exact percentage of where it's at. It just says 0% for many people and it just suddenly hits 100% an hour later or so. So perhaps just waiting would be best even if it may seem like it's not doing anything because it may actually be in the background. That's what I did last night and it worked after an hour of passing by.
Well I do daily check ups everyday and let my computer do it on its own. I only do updates once a month from now on but instead of putting it to "never" i just switch the dates around so it will never get around to actually updating them on that exact day (tedious... i know... since putting it on never should be better)
Actually its odd because my fan started only running high after I had that glitch on windows update. What's weird is the fact that when I went to "services" on my control panel and stopped windows update, the fan would ALWAYS stop running. But as soon as I start it back up, the fans would be running again. It stopped finally when I finally was able to download the newest updates and installed them on my computer after rebooting. So I know it had something to do with the windows update. My fan usually runs a bit higher whenever it is installing updates or checking updates.
But it's a good thing my fan stopped and it's running normally now. I just hate the fact windows update are getting slower and slower as years goes on. I remember back then it would only take 5-10 minutes just to check AND install them. Now it takes 20-30 minutes just to install certain updates...which is why I just stopped doing daily updates.
