Windows Update Hangs

Anonymous

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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Anonymous

2016-04-12T23:13:03+00:00

That is very useful feedback in this thread. Thank you. Click the Answer button please.
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Anonymous

2016-04-12T23:08:10+00:00

Update finally completed after close to 5 hours.
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Anonymous

2016-04-12T22:49:44+00:00

It is certainly not acceptable or even ethical. Sorry to say, it is reality and there is little to nothing you or I can do about it short of switching to Linux or Apple.

Microsoft has changed. It is not the same company it used to be. I expect to be defending my computer and my clients' for a long time to come.

If you have not experienced this before, count yourself very lucky. This has been going on since last July. Browse through this forum and you will find thousands of questions about this.
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Anonymous

2016-04-12T22:47:09+00:00

Thank you Canadian Tech for your thoughts. Update ran this morning in about two minutes time. I have not since turned off computer or made any changes to it The only process using CPU is the Windows Update function.
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Anonymous

2016-04-12T22:41:28+00:00

They do not want you updating Windows 7. They want you replacing it with Windows 10.

Their "wants" are irrelevant. They're under obligation to provide timely security updates until 2020. End of story.
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