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It's set to update everyday at 10:00 AM.

Can you run update manually, that might open the floodgates for you

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I noticed that a folder called winsxs is slowly growing from 532 MB to 4.1 GB. It's not a big problem but I have a very limited hard drive space (151 GB) and I can't afford to lose 4 GB.

 

Upon searching on the internet on how to reduce the size of this folder, I saw a topic about doing that. It says that I should be running Windows 7 SP1. What I did is I right-clicked computer and went to properties, but it only showed Windows 7 Professional, no service packs. I take a look at the Windows Update and clicked View update history. It was empty. It says that I have not tried to install any updates for the computer!

 

The computer is set to automatically update, and yet it doesn't even have one update installed! I can recall a time when I raged because Windows was installing SP1 and it took a very long time to install, so that means it has installed even one update!

 

The computer is 5-years old. Never broke down. Came with a pre-installed copy of Windows 7 Professional.

 

Any help?

 

I have attached a screen capture of the Windows Update. You can see it says that I haven't installed any updates in the computer.

EDIT #1: The second attached screen capture is the Windows Update settings, requested by Tetters.

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Whats the schedule for the auto update? I would try running update manually and see what shows there

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Whats the schedule for the auto update? I would try running update manually and see what shows there

It's set to update everyday at 10:00 AM.

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It's set to update everyday at 10:00 AM.

Can you run update manually, that might open the floodgates for you

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Run the update manually, and if it finds nothing open up an admin CMD and run "SFC /Scannow"
This likely wont find anything, but windows seems to be drunk; if you remember installing updates before.  

 

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Run the update manually, and if it finds nothing open up an admin CMD and run "SFC /Scannow"

This likely wont find anything, but windows seems to be drunk; if you remember installing updates before.  

 

Can you run update manually, that might open the floodgates for you

 

Thank you so much! I ran the update, and it found updates! Now it's downloading a total of 3.2 GB. I'm gonna mark this as solved.

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Thank you so much! I ran the update, and it found updates! Now it's downloading a total of 3.2 GB. I'm gonna mark this as solved.

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Can you run update manually, that might open the floodgates for you

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