• How to get your Win7 updates in less than glacial time

    Posted on July 2, 2016 at 15:31 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Good question from Q:

    I was thinking about the instructions relating to the Updates.    I see that we are told to select
    “Check for updates but  let me choose whether to  download and install them”.

    My experience this morning was that after about 1 1/4 hour, it finally showed the updates.
    I had only selected the IE cumulative update.  When it was finally downloaded, and installed
    (with a restart), I then selected one of the smaller updates.   It reverted to the same menu showing
    that it was downloading (with no progress reflected)….    This took about 1 1/2 hours before it
    reflected that it was beginning to DL & install.

    I’m beginning to wonder if this will be occurring for every single update (??).   It doesn’t make sense,
    however after an update FINALLY gets downloaded and installed and another one is selected it
    goes through the same extremely protracted process.   The size of the update does not seem to be
    relevant.

    What would occur if the “choice” was “download”, but let me decide when to install??  I just
    can’t understand the reason that this would change…… OR do you recommend that we should
    select more than one update so that more can be installed at a time?   I’ve always installed only
    one update at a time in the event that there was a problem with the update.    Never have had
    this problem EVER before, and I’m just searching for answers.    It just doesn’t make sense.

    Nope, it doesn’t make sense.

    Unless you want to spend hours and hours going through updates, it’s very important that you follow the instructions here exactly:

    If you haven’t yet followed this month’s trick for speeding up Windows Update scans, you should first install KB  3161647, which involves installing the update rollup KB 3161608 and seven other patches you probably don’t want. Details in my InfoWorld article.

    That article will tell you about checking for KB 3020369, then downloading and installing KB 3161608. It’s messy, it’s manual – and it’s the only way I know to avoid hours of waiting. One little tip that I didn’t include in the article: Disconnect from the internet after you download the KB 3161608 patch, but before you double-click on the MSU file.

    If you choose “download,” Windows will install the downloaded updates the next time you reboot your computer. No, there’s no reason to install individual updates. Just check what you want, uncheck the rest, and let it fire.

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