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
    2016-04-13T23:05:10+00:00

    You are just going to have to trust me.  I have done WU on 5 systems today alone.  Task Manager never showed more than 25 to 50% in any case.  If you are at 98%, there is a lot more going on in your computer than WU.

    I have seen CPU go to 100% in instances where someone started WU, "stopped it", then restarted it.

    I do believe your system CPU is clearly at 98%, but I am confident there is a lot more than WU being processed.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-04-13T22:54:34+00:00

    I don't think that can be correct. We've left one Win7 system running as is and Resource Monitor shows the wuauserv service pegged at 98% see the screenshot:

    Cheers, Mitch

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-04-13T19:31:44+00:00

    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

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-04-13T19:26:58+00:00

    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.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-04-13T19:12:01+00:00

    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.

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