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Has Microsoft (finally!) solved the Windows 7 slow-update problem?

Posted on January 14, 2017 at 12:16 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

Volume Z just posted a link to this report from Microsoft employee Karthikeyan Kesavan :

This has been fixed and it should take less than 30 minutes now.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-update/windows-update-problem-scanning-for-20-hoursand/6fe94dea-f1a3-43c7-b91b-472ed2ffad06

Can anyone corroborate?

Windows Patches/Security Windows 7 update slow

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