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More problems with Windows 7 update taking forever

Posted on August 25, 2016 at 10:58 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

I’m getting more messages from people who are facing hours and hours of Win7 update scans, even though they followed the directions here:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3105605/microsoft-windows/2-easy-steps-to-speed-up-windows-7-update-scans.html

and installed KB3177725.

Any guesses what’s wrong, and how to fix it?

Windows Patches/Security Windows 7 update slowdown

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