** Autopatcher designates Windows updates into “Critical” (security) and “NonCritical categories. Maybe the Fixit tool does the job (it may need to be run more than once I did and attribute success to it), maybe it was a KB, or maybe the janitor hit the turbo button on the MS TRS-80 servers. When I see registry and datastore (EDB file) repair, that’s primary. Did any of the first 12 updates play a role in this surprise? I tend to think not. That’s when the other 12 popped up in short order. Now, if the MSUs will run, how about trying the regular route? Restarted and then ran Windows update. When I saw “registry”, I thought “Okay, this could be it.” Restarted and then manually installed the 12 bottom updates that you see in the pic, among them KB3153199, with no problem. There was also some repair of the update datastore. Something was interfering with both offline and online updating.ĭownloaded and ran MS Fixit tool for Windows update which found and repaired registry entries related to the updater service. The installer hung, just like Windows update. Problem was, they wouldn’t run on that laptop. I had everything I needed through the May 10 updates.

It does download the MSUs (and EXEs) directly from MS servers (after the legal wrangling), so they are clean.** Those files check their integrity as they run, as well. I reasoned that, if online updating was going to be a persistent pain, I’d download the bunch and install offline, but not using Autopatcher (it doesn’t do Office 2010+ updating among other things). In my case, that was about 1.2Gb of MSUs. It will download all the MSUs that are applicable to your setup, as you specify. It’s one of the offline installers and the links to MS updates seem to be well-maintained.

Ran into a program, Autopatcher, that apparently has been around for quite a while. Update just ran until oblivion (my fuse is shorter than hours), so it was time to dig.

It’s 圆4 Home and set up similarly to the desktops. Hadn’t used the laptop for a couple months and it became the challenge. My two desktops (圆4 Ult) have not had an update issue (last being May 10) and not a single failure in a long time. Explanation below the second screenshot, which you’ll see shows all 24 installs today, not just 12. Quite a bit happened that took me to whatever point this is. It was so normal, I was surprised … particularly after reading the horror stories in recent posts. After the download was complete, install and reboot finished what we had come to expect as “normal”. The ensuing download of 131Mb in 12 files (screenshot below) took 4 minutes. I was able earlier today via Windows update to complete a manual search in 14 minutes. It’s taken a good part of three days to sort through this. This in from Jim in Yakima (which is where I went to high school!):Īs you and untold numbers of other frustrated users have experienced, the Windows 7 update problems hit me last week.

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