Stuck on "Checking for updates..."

[Gregrs]

Title says it all, I just did a clean install of Windows 7 Professional because Windows 10 wasn't working out. I hit "check for updates" and it's been checking for updates for about 3 1/2 hours. Is there a way to fix this, or will it take a while?

[imreloadin]

2 minutes ago, Gregrs said:

Title says it all, I just did a clean install of Windows 7 Professional because Windows 10 wasn't working out. I hit "check for updates" and it's been checking for updates for about 3 1/2 hours. Is there a way to fix this, or will it take a while?

Did you install all your drivers again before installing the updates?

[Gregrs]

1 hour ago, imreloadin said:

Did you install all your drivers again before installing the updates?

Yeah, I used driver booster

[Whaler_99]

This is a known bug with Windows 7. Try this:

 

Microsoft released a new Windows Update Client Update to fix the slow Update searching/Installation.

Installing and searching for updates is slow and high CPU usage occurs in Windows 7
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3102810

Download:
32Bit: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=fcd6bf5d-f004-4ca3-aa7e-1de462b91dd0

64Bit: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4fe566bd-31b1-4413-8c4c-412b52533669

Stop Windows Update service (this speeds up the setup of MSU updates and the useless steps from Moab are not required) and try this Windows Update Client Update and see if it speeds up the installation of Updates.

There is also a newer version from March 2016. Also stop WU service and try to install this update.

[Gregrs]

1 hour ago, Whaler_99 said:

This is a known bug with Windows 7. Try this:

 

Microsoft released a new Windows Update Client Update to fix the slow Update searching/Installation.

Installing and searching for updates is slow and high CPU usage occurs in Windows 7
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3102810

Download:
32Bit: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=fcd6bf5d-f004-4ca3-aa7e-1de462b91dd0

64Bit: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4fe566bd-31b1-4413-8c4c-412b52533669

Stop Windows Update service (this speeds up the setup of MSU updates and the useless steps from Moab are not required) and try this Windows Update Client Update and see if it speeds up the installation of Updates.

There is also a newer version from March 2016. Also stop WU service and try to install this update.

 

Do you know by any chance how long it takes to find updates? It's been running for about 45 minutes - 1 hour or so, and it still says "searching for updates on this computer..."

[KuJoe]

I had the same issue on a Windows 7 Pro install last week, I left it on and checked back on it ~8 hours later and it installed all of the updates. Future "check updates" were much faster after that one finally completed.

[Whaler_99]

Ya, that first "one" can take forever. The subsequent are a lot better. 

 

Tips:

1 - Not SP1? Download and it install it first off

2 - go to microsoft downloads and install directly .Net 4.5 and 4.6