Windows Update not updating (Windows 7 64-bit)
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@Gwen-Dragon It should still receive the extended support though (probably security related items only), through the 14 January 2020 date.
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@nfsmaniac I will download those two updates, as well as use the settings on the above referenced Microsoft page and see how it goes.
Thank you for the links.
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@Dietrich The first link in those search results (which I didn't get!) has some great information.
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@nfsmaniac One of the two listed updates, was already installed. Upon installing the second one, that fixed Windows Update. It subsequently retrieved numerous updates.
It is now working again.
Thank you all for the help.
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@edwardp said in Windows Update not updating (Windows 7 64-bit):
One of the two listed updates, was already installed. Upon installing the second one, that fixed Windows Update. It subsequently retrieved numerous updates.
Yes, the first update was a dependency to the second update. So I had rather listed that update.
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@nfsmaniac I noticed there are some new (?) Security and Quality Rollup updates. Windows Update (WU) first displayed the rollup for March. As is, that particular update failed with a certain error code indicating a privilege issue (don't have privileges to install, even though my account is the Administrator account). The rollup description mentioned the same fixes were also available in both separate Security and Quality updates, both available from the Microsoft Catalog web site. Then when both of these were installed separately, the installs were successful.
Today, WU displayed the same type of rollup update was available, but for January. That also failed with the same error, but when I looked at that description, the March update(s) superseded it, so the system should otherwise now be up to date.
I don't mind manually installing updates if need be, I already do it that way in Linux.
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@dLeon Microsoft has a web site known as Microsoft Catalog, which only works with Internet Explorer. I had to download a few updates from that site when the full rollup would not install via Windows Update, but everything else comes through WU.
Even with Linux, I manually update (in Fedora: sudo dnf upgrade). Works for me.
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@dLeon It took four evenings (of a few hours each) to get all of the updates from the past year to be installed...
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@dLeon I'm actually happy that it's now updated.
I'll guess that around 750Mb of updates were downloaded in all. The largest group, which was on the first successful check after it started working again, was around 340Mb. Then as I ran it again a few times each night, updates still continued to be displayed each time, until of course, there was nothing available.
Why all of them didn't display at once, I'm not sure, but it's entirely possible that some updates were contingent upon earlier updates being installed.
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@dLeon Windows 7 (Home Premium) came pre-installed on the system and it included Service Pack 1. Although if the hard drive eventually fails (as it did on my other PC with Vista pre-installed), I have no way of reinstalling it, so the system would then become Linux only. Everything I can do in Windows, I can do in Linux.
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@edwardp said in Windows Update not updating (Windows 7 64-bit):
Although if the hard drive eventually fails (as it did on my other PC with Vista pre-installed), I have no way of reinstalling it, so the system would then become Linux only.
It's true, that OEM licenses are quite restricted. But a hard drive is NOT critical. I suppose that you have some recovery partition from PC manfacturer. If you lost it because of hard drive failure, you can simply download CLEAN Windows (e.g. from MSDN) and use the product key from Windows license label sticked to your PC (but of course you'll have to obtain and install drivers by yourself).
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I just gave up on W7 & switched to Fedora Linux last weekend
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@640k Gave up on Windows 7 last night. The April security and quality rollup was available through Windows Update, it would not install due to a permissions issue per the error number (my account is the Administrator account, so there is no reason why it should not install), then I downloaded the same file from the Microsoft Catalog web site, same thing, that would not install either.
So now, this makes it official. I can no longer update Windows 7. I am now 100% Linux.
I am looking forward to the M3 e-mail addition to Vivaldi.
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@edwardp: Yes, for all that many users seem to feel Windows 7 is the greatest thing since sliced bread, and cannot be improved upon, I have had a couple of machines over the years on which I had to reinstall Win7 from scratch after it began to refuse all updates. Sometimes that is the only viable solution. I had one that gradually refused to accept installs or updates of more and more different kinds of software and finally of Windows itself, and that was only healed by a clean install. So far, nothing quite so bad as that with Windows 10. Still, fingers crossed. I did have to do an "In-place upgrade" of it when the installation of a new PDF-handling software nuked all file and app icons and crippled the context menu. All is once again peachy on that system, but what a pain. All that said, Linux is not immune. It, too, can kick your feet out from under you periodically.
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@edwardp said in Windows Update not updating (Windows 7 64-bit):
I am now 100% Linux
Yay -- welcome into the light.
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Tower & Lappy = Maui Linux 17.03 x64 Plasma 5.9.3.
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@Ayespy If I try reinstalling Windows 7 from the 'recovery partition' on the hard drive, it will also erase the Linux partitions, which I do not want to occur, so I'll just leave it as it is.
Last November, after seven years, the hard drive in my other PC, which had Windows Vista pre-installed the same way, started failing, so I simply installed a new hard drive and reinstalled Fedora on that. Vista was going to be EOL'd this month anyway, so it was no big deal to be finally rid of Vista in advance of the EOL date.
And it was Linux that indicated there were issues with that failing hard drive, not Windows...
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@Steffie Thank you!
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@Ayespy said in Windows Update not updating (Windows 7 64-bit):
Linux is not immune. It, too, can kick your feet out from under you periodically
True, but when Linux kicks, it is done with love & compassion. When MS kicks, it is done with vindictiveness & malice.
More seriously though, whilst i don't "enjoy" it if i need to reinstall a Linux distro [= rare event anyway, compared to my MS decades], or Linux pgm, the sense of liberation & lightness [of heart] i feel in the knowledge i will not then face any annoying time-wasting registration / activation hassles, is significant.
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@dLeon I was first introduced to Linux during the 1990's, but did my first install in the early 2000's with SuSE 9.
Then used Mandriva, PCLinux OS, Ubuntu, Debian and now Fedora.
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Hello everyone,
Exact same problem here, solved (kind of). I didn't notice it sooner since I hadn't been using Windows in a year on my laptop.
Well, after some hours, Windows finally downloaded some updates, and it took an hour after that to reboot the computer.
I also noticed that Avira antivirus, which I use on Windows, sometimes blocks Internet except for the browser while updating, which can take a while.