Windows Update Hangs

Apr 12 , win update stopped working.  This solution works. WHY did this issue occur, beats me but this community makes things happen.

I think sooner or later i will move to win 10, hope that system is easier to keep updating!!

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, even if your Installed History already shows this update.

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.mm

I was delighted to find this solution and grateful to those who passed it along to all of us.  I had the same problem with March's 2nd Tuesday, but didn't have to do anything to straighten it out -- just reported it on here and all was well by the next day.  But KB145739 was what seemed to fix the problem in April.

One other thing should be added to Chooky's instructions -- take your WU update checking OFF of automatic; change it to "Never check for updates" under settings, then restart your computer before doing the manual stand-alone update KB3145739. 

Let's hope for better this coming month, eh?  ;-)

Nope plenty of people having issues in win-10

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-update/microsoft-wants-to-know-anyone-seeing-issues-with/8cc2af67-d1ef-43d8-8658-b5c5a69be530

Yep Joel CS is a jewel for sharing with us the workaround :)

Apr 12 , win update stopped working.  This solution works. WHY did this issue occur, beats me but this community makes things happen.

I think sooner or later i will move to win 10, hope that system is easier to keep updating!!

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, even if your Installed History already shows this update.

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.mm

Finally resolved the issue with being able to check for Office updates. After once again wasting my time calling Microsoft (they just couldn't seem to understand that there should be an option to get updates for other products), I kept looking online for solutions. Found a site that said to do the following: in Internet Explorer, list microsoft.com as a trusted site and add it to compatibility view settings. I tried just those two things first, but still no results. Then I decided to change my default browser to IE. That worked. I finally have the option back to get Office updates. Switched back to Chrome as my default and all is finally well.

As RobertSerb said, that link is dead. Gets you nowhere. And as for using Office to search for updates, that didn't work either. I'm afraid to try to uninstall it because it's Office 2010. When I installed in on my second computer last year, had some problems with good old MS and my license. I knew I was entitled to install in on another computer, but they gave me a little trouble. Finally got it worked out, but I hesitate to uninstall and try reinstalling with how they acted before.