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Windows 7 Updates

Sp33dFr33k said:
Having the issue on one out of 5 Win 7 systems. CPU spikes to 100% for hours at a time until I kill the process
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Why wait for hours? When I see cpu usage is constant 100% or 50% on some process and not changing for a while I assume it is 'stuck' and terminate it. Happened with me a few times with Windows Update. Close Update window, kill that 100% cpu using process, restart Update. Problem solved. Not helping? Restart system. Start over again. But waiting for a 'stuck' (crushed?) process to start working is useless most of the times.
 
Monkey God said:
Yep with new builds you pretty much have to install that KB.
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Adding: you have to install those KBs offline. If it's online it's going to start updating in the background and the KB won't work. Your solution then is to do what Sp33dFr33k suggested to get windows to use the new update client.
 
I just did a reformat 2 days ago and Windows Update literally took 3 hours 'searching for updates' in the first big group of patches (216 patches)...luckily it's only slow when searching for that first batch of updates, after that everything is quick again...how is Microsoft making the updates go so slow?...less servers available or some other trick?
 
rezerekted said:
It's called obsolescence by design. Win7 is a perfectly suitable OS but Microsoft don't want us using it because no app store and other bullshit. I run Win8.1 but if I was having this issue I would go to one of those alternative Win update sites. There are a couple of them around.
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I have updates disabled, and get them using Autopatcher. About 2 months ago, I had to do a fresh install of 7 with SP1. After downloading 200+ updates from Autopatcher, it actually only installed around 100 of them which were critical.
Since I have Autopatcher, I can copy the folder and all the updates it's downloaded onto other pc's that need updates after a fresh install. I will never use windows update again.

Just saw this: The shame of Windows Update
 
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polonyc2 said:
I just did a reformat 2 days ago and Windows Update literally took 3 hours 'searching for updates' in the first big group of patches (216 patches)...luckily it's only slow when searching for that first batch of updates, after that everything is quick again...how is Microsoft making the updates go so slow?...less servers available or some other trick?
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They aren't making it go slow, its just shitty coding that doesn't scale now that W7 requires so many updates. What they should have done was a service pack. But since W7 is a fossil and W10 is the glorious leader of the future in all things, they just don't care.
 
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