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Post by Jack Teems on Mar 15, 2016 14:52:22 GMT -5
Windows 7 began to install its latest updates -65 of them- approximately 18 hours ago and just now finished. Has anyone else experienced such a long update? Anyone have an idea if this is not normal what is causing it.
And I've often wondered what would happen if we ignored the caution not to shut the PC down during the updates?
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Post by laverne on Mar 19, 2016 9:54:49 GMT -5
Jack,
Yes, indeed, I have had a similar experience with Windows updates. I have two Win7 computers, one 32-bit and one 64-bit. The 64-bit one is the worst on updates. I have had the experience of choosing maybe 3 or 4 updates to download and install -- and three hours later the download progress is 0%.
What I do is simply wait until another time and try again. I always install the updates piecemeal, a few at a time. So I expect to spend a lot of time before all are installed.
Another problem I have with MS Updates is when I leave one or two updates uninstalled for the present time per suggestions from Susan Bradley of Windows Secrets. Invariably, the 64-bit computer ever afterward shows it is using 50% of CPU for svchost.exe -- until I install the final several updates! This is most irritating.
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Post by steve04 on Mar 22, 2016 17:30:37 GMT -5
When I've had that problem (svchost eating lots of cpu) I've had success in terminating the wuauserv service and the next time I've booted up it behaves itself. With my old xp machine I've had to kill windows update it would hog 100% and in fact it would be doing nothing since no update would be ever found since MS does not supply updates for xp any anymore.
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