windows update

[shankle]

Just info about my experience with windows 7 pro 64-bit.
I recently had to reinstall windows. It took over 8 hours to
get any results from Microsoft. 162 updates. The 1st 10 updates
loaded immediately. The next 10 updates , who knows , I'm waiting and
waiting.
I guess eventually there will be no updates for Windows 7, if I have this
problem again.  :(

[sinsi]

It's a known problem but MS couldn't give a rat's arse. "Move to 10" they say ::)

Use wsusoffline, no messing around.

[jj2007]

I moved my kids' machine from 8.1 to Win10, and that seems ok.

My dev machine will remain Win7-64 for a long time. Updates are not automatic, but from time to time I let the OS do its job.
Last week I had massive problems with the Adobe Flash "software" (why are they allowed to call it like that?) - it crashed even more often than usual. After a Windows update, it works now 8)

But I've wasted hours to find a solution. Where can I send the bill, Bill?

[Vortex]

This rollup update could be considered a kind of SP2 for Windows 7.

Convenience rollup update for Windows 7 SP1 :

http://masm32.com/board/index.php?topic=5371.0

[shankle]

Thanks guys for responding.
Running window 7 pro 64-bit.
I found a way to help some with the update problem.
This is after the initial 8 hour download.
I have windows set to download the updates but let me choose whether
to install them.
I then pick 10 to 15 updates to install and let them cook for several minutes.
Then I hit cancel. Windows then tells me then that it has updates
to install and shutdown. Since I can't  tell from this message what they
intend to install, I hit restart and then select the same updates and they
start to install immediately.
Hope this might help some poor soul going through the same agony......

[hutch--]

Just updated my Win7 64 box. About a half gig download, went straight in with no problems, rebooted a couple of time and all seems to be fine.

[shankle]

Hi Hutch,
Evidently someone is smiling upon you.  

[shankle]

This is to Sinsi,
I didn't realize what you were telling me. I have run the program
and have all the goodies setting in a folder. Now What?
The program is a tad complicated with no instructions that I could find.
If I can get this to work I'm bowing toward Aussielamd and kissing your
feet

[sinsi]

If you chose "create ISO images" then look in the ISO folder of wsusoffline.
If you chose "USB medium" then look in the folder you picked.
There should be a program "UpdateInstaller.exe", that's what you run on the target system.

One good thing is that you run "UpdateGenerator.exe" every month and it keeps things current, if you have the update it doesn't download it again.

[shankle]

To Sinsi,
Thanks for helping.
I ran updateinstaller.exe 10.6.3
It failed with the following message:
Medium neither supports your Windows......
I am running Windows 7 pro 64-bit.

On the wsus web site the docs show it supporting 64 bit.
What to do now. I don't want to be a pest.....

[sinsi]

>Medium neither supports your Windows.
That means you downloaded the wrong updates (I think). This blog has a bit more info.

My steps are:
Run UpdateGenerator
Make sure both Windows 7 check boxes are ticked
Pick anything else you want
Choose ISO or USB

[shankle]

I tried "downloadwsusoffline.net" and my eset SS flaged it as having a virus.

[sinsi]

I got mine from download.wsusoffline.net, no complaints from Windows Defender or Malwarebytes.

[shankle]

Thanks Sinsi,
I see what I did wrong. I checked the wrong windows box.
Should have checked x64. Will have to do it the 3rd time.
Ok, progress. The following error is caused by Internet Explorer 8 in the
restore of Windows 7 that I had to do. I downloaded Internet Explorer 11
and now things seem to be working.
The attached file is zipped and then in pdf format.
In case you can't read the attachment this is what the last 4 lines look like:
installing update 1 of 9 [stage size 400)
verifying integrity of.... \w61-x64\glb\windows6.1-kb2533623-x64.msu
hashdeep64.exe: audit passed
installing .. \w61-x64\glb\windows6.1-kb2533623-x64.msu

Wsus  installed about 50 updates.
Then Windows updates came up with another 150 updates.
I thought wsus was supposed to do all the updates??????

[jj2007]

Windows 7 just tried a major update. Since it is a brand new OS, Microsoft offered 119 "improvements". Inter alia, I allowed Redmond to install M$ Security Essentials (they really asked so gently), and for the last two hours MSE has been doing a "fast" analysis. My PC is slow like a snail, of course. If I can trust the progress bar, MSE is at about 40% now, so the "fast" analysis will take about five hours. Now the interesting question: Windows Update requests a reboot, MSE is still running - will they start fighting? Whom shall I call if there are victims, Bill Gates or the carabinieri??  ::)

Windows Update succeeded in installing 91 out of 119, 15 were cancelled and one failed with code 80070490, "unknown error". Somewhere in that process M$ managed to reassign the inc extension from RichMasm to that behemoth of Visual Shyte. Thank you so much, Microsoft, also for the 4GB disk space that disappeared during this update :icon14:

Maybe I should pick a new signature: "Once upon a time, Redmond still had some limited control over their pile of shyte"