Windows update stuck 'checking for updates'.

Rev

matmidgley wrote: »

you can start the windows 10 update by using the website https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

download the tool then click update

Thanks. Downloading that now.

Yolina

I hope you get the stuff to work

Something has happened with my netbook - it's a Sammy so I went playing with some of their pre-installed bloatware - which ended up re-installing the Windows Update Agent and after a reboot Checking for Updates is working again and telling me that there are 191 important updates and 10 optional ones to install :rotfl: I love doing factory resets, always hours of fun and entertainment...

Rev

Updated to windows ten. Didn't like it so reverted to windows 7.

So now I'm stuck with the original issue or updates hanging.

indesisiv

Have you tried a boot into safe mode then a restart?

Rev

indesisiv wrote: »

Have you tried a boot into safe mode then a restart?

Yes, tried that yesterday.

I also now can't get updates to the MSE anti virus either. Says the last update was the 18th and it's been stuck on downloading updates for the last two hours.

Rev

I give up.

Just done a complete reinstall and it still won't work.


All I have installed is MSE.


I'll live without windows updates.

Yolina

what was it you didn't like about 10 that made you go back to 7?

I_have_spoken

Layer upon layer of Anti-Virus and the like installed?

Rev

I_have_spoken wrote: »

Layer upon layer of Anti-Virus and the like installed?

One antivirus. Microsoft security essentials.


Zip all else right now as its a fresh install.


Usually MSE and spybot.

Rev

Yolina wrote: »

what was it you didn't like about 10 that made you go back to 7?

Everything.


The look. The feel. How slow it made my laptop.