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Sunday, 10/23/2016 11:17:18 AM

Sunday, October 23, 2016 11:17:18 AM

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The never ending "Searching for Updates" syndrome ...

This was done on a Win 7 O/S but may work for Vista and 10 too...
(beats reloading the operating system and all the related updating that would be required afterwards)

I changed Win Update settings to " Never" back in Jan 2016 to stop getting the "free" Win 10 upgrade crap.
I also stopped even checking for updates until recently - AFTER MS ended that free upgrade offer.
That's when the never ending "checking/searching for updates" problem started...

I tried restore points and about 15 different YouTube "fixes" that included having me download WUSU update 'patches' directly from M/S for installing...
Some would install but not fix the Windows Update issue... but most would never install and would continue to endlessly search just like WIN Updates did.
I found this program from PatchAholic... The WSUS Blog!
I downloaded and ran it - It WORKED!
http://blogs.msmvps.com/athif/2006/04/05/re-installing-wua/

They suggest you download it to a flash card but I loaded it to my C drive...(it will use about 3-4 GB of space)
After downloading the program, find it's folder (WOUTempAdmin and then folder wusaoffline108)
Then click on the UpdateGenerator.exe to finish the set up on your computer....(It will need to un-zip some of its stuff before it opens it's control panel - - then you select some things to tell it how you want it run.
Then run it. This will take some time...

It will open an Administrative Command Prompt window and download the missing Windows Updates...I had to try it several times before it finally down loaded all the Updates I had missed since last January (210 of them in my case)....

When it finishes downloading updates, go back the the WOUTempAdmin folder and find UpdateInstaller.exe. ...click it and let it install the updates to your machine. This may take a long time too.

In my case the UpdateInstaller.exe compared the updates that I already had (installed last year) and then installed about 50 more.
Then the Windows Update window opened and said there were 80 updates available for downloading...
Let the Command Prompt window say it was done.
Then go ot the Windows Update window and download /install the rest of them.


The machine I used the above PatchAholic 'fix' on was an older machine but it was still running well...

I had a similar issue with another, newer Win 7 machine - i.e. I was unable to connect to the internet to get all the current drivers after re-installing my O/S from DVD, thus I could not get Update to work...
But luckily I finally got all the Windows updates by doing some other things - for some reason the on-board hard wired connection did not work.
I ended up hooking up a Wireless USB adaptor - for some reason the motherboard's LAN port (for a CAT 5 wired connection) no longer worked and was "not found" - perhaps it burnt out which caused me to have to re-load the O/S ????

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