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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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Do you think Microsoft is even working on this issue ??? Are we being, as window 7 users, forced into windows 10 ??
It's obviously a bug that occurred over time that Microsoft has no incentive to fix.... for the time being I hope! Microsoft, please help save our planet by not having our computers use up so much power because of the Windows 7 updates taking so long!
Do you think Microsoft is even working on this issue ??? Are we being, as window 7 users, forced into windows 10 ??
I'm doing it right now, downloaded kb3145739 from MS dowlonad center and trying to install it, but I'm still just seeing winow telling standalone windows update installer checking for updates on pc...
I run troubleshooter three times and always get error 0x80072efd.
It is because you have already initiated a manual check for updates.
To resolve this issue, set windows update to never check for updates and then restart the computer. After then try installing KB3145739 again. When done reboot once more. Then try to manually check for updates again from Windows Update control panel applet.
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SOLVED:
Windows 7 SP1 64
Extremely frustrated all day yesterday trying every solution posted on the Internet. Then this morning I found this comment on Softpedia's website and it absolutely works (very easy - but why should we have to do this?):
To resolve this issue: first install KB3145739 manually. Go to Microsoft website to download and then install.
Next you should restart and finally you can check for updates in manual mode.
It takes between 5 or 10 minutes.
Comment posted by: Chooky
14 Apr 2016 13:00 CMT
http://news.softpedia.com/news/windows-update-hanging-when-downloading-april-12-patches-502886.shtml
P.S. I joined the Microsoft community today specifically to post this solution. Hopefully it will help some people avoid hours or days of frustration or drastic, complicated but unnecessary troubleshooting steps.
Thank you so much. It worked on Vista SP2-32 Bit as well.
Instructions:
4.Turn on Windows update and Check for updates. I got mine in two minutes. (They were downloaded already-4 days ago-)
Here is the check update screen on Vista:
Windows Vista (8) Size Published
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 9 for Windows Vista (KB3148198) 14.4 MB 4/12/2016
Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 SP2 on Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 (KB3142041) 5.9 MB 4/12/2016
Security Update for Windows Vista (KB3146706) 9.1 MB 4/12/2016
Security Update for Windows Vista (KB3146963) 530 KB 4/12/2016
Security Update for Windows Vista (KB3149090) 8.2 MB 4/12/2016
Update for Windows Vista (KB3147071) 8.7 MB 4/12/2016
I will test this on Win 7 -32 bit later today
