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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  2. Anonymous
    2016-04-16T18:23:01+00:00

    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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  3. Anonymous
    2016-04-16T19:36:49+00:00

    Do you think Microsoft is even working on  this issue ???  Are we being, as window 7 users, forced into windows 10 ??

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-04-16T21:45:15+00:00

    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!

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-04-16T22:03:20+00:00

    For two days I have been doing every Microsoft "Fix It" I could find for Windows Updates on my W7 SP1 laptop as well as a Vista laptop that suddenly would not download Windows updates..I then found this forum and was thrilled (not really) to see I was not alone.  Once I got all the "Fix It" problems resolved I let my program check for updates for 4.5 hours..I was in the midst of shutting off all power options to sleep when suddenly it stopped searching and found 32 updates..now it seems stuck on the downloading process....been on Zero for awhile..but I am going to just let it be as suggested here.  How do I set it not to Hibernate?  I fear I am in for a long night.  If we are not alone, wish there was some communication as to the problem so everyone knows there is an issue. 

    I am just a novice user and tried everything I could and researched every error code I encountered..I wish I had seen this before I did all that and just let it run searching longer..just seemed unreasonable to me to take so long.  Stressfull for us plain old users.

    Update..all the Feb and April updates (32) went in and after reboot I checked again if there were more updates and alas 3 more but this time they went in very quickly and after restart again one more..again went in well..Hope fully next months go as well.

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