Windows Update Hangs

Anonymous
2016-04-12T19:28:32+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2016-04-12T22:17:14+00:00

    Having same exact issue. Last month it took the most 10 minutes to show my updates. It has been 4 hours now and it is still "checking for updates". The service is running my CPU 50 %.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-04-12T22:05:23+00:00

    I, too, am having this issue beginning only this afternoon (04/12/2016).  This morning Windows Update completed its check (no updates) without any problem.  When I manually ran a check this afternoon since it is "Patch Tuesday" the "checking for updates" has been running for over two hours and the applicable svchost.exe process is taking up 25% of my CPU.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-04-12T21:26:56+00:00

    I'm also having this problem. Will just leave it alone, as with last month's issue, and hope Microsoft will get it worked out.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-04-12T20:14:44+00:00

    I'll let you know tomorrow.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-04-12T20:12:44+00:00

    Shutting down the system complicates the problem.  What do you have to lose?

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