• How to update Vista quickly?

    Posted on July 20, 2016 at 10:00 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Another Vista call-out, this time from reader AK:

    I’m an avid follower of ‘AskWoody’; so, here goes.

    The monthly MS Updates for 12th July 2016, has still not appeared on my machine.

    All I get is the ‘svchost.exe’ is running at 50%, forever. No amount of resetting WU, reboots, etc, seems tp prompt MS to ping me the updates.
    I’ve tried the ‘standalone installer’; but, that pings out forever.

    I have another Vista machine, that updated, albeit very late, 18th July. This machine mirrors the problematic machine.

    How long, is a reasonable amount of time to wait for updates ? Where do I go from here ?

    Cynically, should I just wait until April 2017; when, there’ll be no updates at all ?

    Best regards. AK

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