Win 7 install UPDATE

spud17

I had a read of that thread from digitalspy, again there seems to be no consensus on what really works reliably.
Some have done the same as I did back in September, install IE 11 from a single download and that somehow kickstarts the updates.


http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?p=81880942#post81880942

The time to install the updates once you have them is getting ridiculous. I know the pc I was using is only an old AMD dual core with 4GB ram, but it took 6 +hrs to get to the first reboot.

elektra

I thought I would test this out on an older box, but no improvements:(

Checking updates time has been consistent at 2 hours.

First attempt - check for updates took 2 hours.

Installed the latest update agent, installed KB3102810 - check for updates still took 2 hours.

Saw the post on DS so tried installing KB3135445 - check for updates still took 2 hours.

I think it is Microsoft's way of punishing those of us that don't have automatic updates on and are not accepting the push to W10.

spud17

elektra wrote: »

I thought I would test this out on an older box, but no improvements:(

Checking updates time has been consistent at 2 hours.

First attempt - check for updates took 2 hours.

Installed the latest update agent, installed KB3102810 - check for updates still took 2 hours.

Saw the post on DS so tried installing KB3135445 - check for updates still took 2 hours.

I think it is Microsoft's way of punishing those of us that don't have automatic updates on and are not accepting the push to W10.

Thanks for your persistence.
One of my attempts was to just let automatic updates run, after a couple of hours it had installed the latest Windows Update Agent.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/949104

Then nothing for several hours, when I gave up.
The latest WUA is the same file that I installed first, to save time :rotfl: in my final successful attempt.