Windows Update Hangs

I am having the same problem with hanging while downloading and installing updates. On 4/12/16 Windows Update

was stuck at 0% for hours while downloading updates. I gave up and shut down the PC for the rest of the evening.

Today, 4/13/16, I tried Windows Update again and it was stuck at 0% while downloading for over an hour but it finally downloaded and installed all the updates successfully.

Microsoft probably has server or bandwidth issues because in the past this has never happened to me. I have one more PC, one laptop, and one virtual machine to update. It's going to take all damn day.

First recommendation. Stop doing daily updates.  Updates come once a month. The only ones that come in between 2nd Tuesdays are ones that are designed to move your computer to Windows 10.

-You also forgot "out of band" security updates. They are rare, but you'll want to install them asap in case there's another 0-day floating around...considering all the ransomware infecting windows boxes recently via flash ads or macro word documents.

Fans running at high speed have nothing to do in particular with Windows Update.  Fans run at higher speeds...are a sign that the computer is running warmer than it should and the fan is speeding up to rid itself of that heat.  That heat can be caused by all kinds of computer activity.

-Many bios' settings have automatic fan control on the cpu fan. If a core on the cpu gets pegged by activity, it ramps up. If you're annoyed by it, you might be able to disable it and have the fan run at full speed all the time or select a different mode like "silent," but keep an eye on the temps especially if you're using a stock cooler. Premium boards also give you the ability to setup fan curves so if the cpu is going north of 80 degrees, you can set the fan go into "turbo" mode at that point. I've got an aftermarket AIO cooler with an "quiet edition" sp120 from corsair that runs at ~45CFM. The fan control on my Asus board is called "Q-Control" and you can enable it (or set different modes) for any 4-pin PWM fan in the box.

From now on, expect to wait a long time for updates.  Sometimes many hours.  That is now normal.

^My replies are in bold above.

I also have a 6 year old Asus EEE PC single core cpu needing this and last month's updates and it took 4 hours and change. The cpu was pegged at 100% the enter time. Netbooks are pretty useless as you'll need to turn down the graphics settings just to watch a 720p video smoothly and I don't know many people who still have them when the fad was popular back in '09 and '10.

The cpu seems to be a factor here, at least for me. My desktop has a g3258 running at 4.6GHz that took ~30 minutes of searching for updates. That's a heavy overclock and probably the best performance on a dual-core cpu at the moment.

You're the insider. Tell them to stop gimping the win7 update process in hopes that people will be upgrading to win10. It will backfire.

KB3102810 was probably just a placated update that lasted for a couple of months. People's attention spans drifted, and now KB3102810 effectively no longer applies to the gimped update process.

Dual core cpu's this whole year and last has been ****-o for them

Quad cores and above svchost.exe is a lot less noticeable

I can't image a single core living :)

On one dual core laptop I had to lower the max cpu % down from 100% to 80% just so it doesn't overheat

Win-10 has it's own set of issues besides being completely unpredictable from one day to the next :p

Updates have always been flaky at best now they are mandatory :)

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