Windows updates

bermary

Got notification that 18 of these were ready to be installed so started to do so, half hour later and the first one as not installed can it be that some updates take this amount of time to install. TIA

Oblivion

I've had update notifications this morning as well ... Microsoft usually release them on the 2nd Tuesday of the month which means in reality Wednesday for us in the UK.

I had varying numbers reported for each of my 5 PCs because they are all subtly different, but all 5 took quite a long time to download and install. Two of my machines had downloads of over 100Mb!

It seems to be the updates to the various versions of .net that are the slowest.

Just be patient and walk away while it does it's thing.

S0litaire

individually ".NET" updates take an age to run for some reason! and their are a LOT of .NET updates today!

also ".NET" updates tend to only want to install one at a time between reboots! so you might get a lot of "failed" messages and asking for reboots.

Hope you have nothing planned for the rest of the day... ^_~ lol

just about to start the 24 windows 7 updates i've got today....

debitcardmayhem

There were only 4 on my Windows 8.1 evaluation machine, and one of those was for Defiler

Fruit_and_Nut_Case

11 updates today for Windows XP on an old laptop.

S0litaire

1 was new Microsoft Security centre
1 was an AV update for the Security centre
1 was malicious software removal tool
5 .NET fixes
5 Security updates for .NET
11 general security updates

10 mins in and 50% of the updates are done..

bermary

my computer as been on now for 5 hours trying to install the first update of 18 which is for net framework 4 says its downloading but the bar showing the download is happening is not moving.

Sooler

The install of an update hangs?

Go into task manager and stop spoolsv.exe

Worked for me, install then continues.

bermary

can't find spoolex.in task maager

Sooler

Task manager - Processes - spoolsv.exe

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-onenote/kb2760600-not-installing/811842f5-6a58-40e1-a107-7303ddc4dcdf

All I had to do to fix this was run Task Manager, click the "Show processes from all users" icon, and end the "spoolsv.exe" process. Have Windows Update running so you can install the update as soon as you close the "spoolsv.exe", because this service will automatically restart itself in a short time.

bermary

Sooler did what you suggested but the update for net framework 4 still stuck on 2% after 2 hours.