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Sorry that I forgot to login for my post as “anonymous”.

At this point in the life of Win7, do not know why we need the SS update.

At least I am not the only person with the issue.

 

I had posted slowness of Win7 updates/checking after March patch Tuesday. Tried periodically since then; no change – still slow. Tried last Sat morning checking for updates: one on a laptop on which I had installed KB3138612 and on a desktop on which it was not installed. The laptop w/ the WU update patch took 30+ minutes; the one w/o the patch took about 15 minutes; so much for 3138612.

I then installed GWX Control Panel on all 3 pcs; all found no trace of Win10 but it was enabled to be installed. Changed these to “No” Win 10. Then ran WU update checks; they were done in a couple of minutes! This has not happened in months.

Either it was using GWX to block Win10 checking or it is far from patch Tuesday. But why did it take so long last Sat am before GWX install to check for updates and a couple of minutes the same day after GWX install? Strange! Fortunately, I never had excess CPU usage on any of the pc’s during WU checks.

7 updates in 1 minute is wonderful – from my perspective anyway. Even a 15 min. delay is not bad. For me, once the download starts, the actual file download is very fast. It is just “checking for updates” and getting the download started that is painfully slow.

Maybe South Florida has slower WU connection times than Boston.

After the glacial pace of connecting to WU, I installed KB 3138612 on one of our Win7 (Home) pcs. I started that pc alongside another Win7 (Pro) pc at the same time. The pc without 3138612 was able to check for updates in 15 minutes; the one with 3138612 installed took almost an hour (I had checked for WU earlier in the day on that pc). Until 3138612, I had resisted installing WU Client updates.

Individual Win7 updates generally now take forever as well on all 3 of my pc’s although we have a fast internet connection. After getting Susan Bradley’s Patch Watch, I used to be able to update all 3 in a couple of hours. No longer.

As earlier posts mentioned, MS must be tightening access to its servers for Win 7 folks. It does not seem to matter if I do updating at 8am or 8pm. I have no reason to upgrade to Win10 as the Win7’s work reasonably well except with WU; Win10 will probably introduce a new host of problems to deal with.

Sorry to hijack/add to confusion but I’ve been having similar problems with updates being offered but not mentioned in (the excellent and very reliable) Patchwatch. Currently (November updates) I have W7 Security updates KB2862152 and 2868725 and also an optional update 2830447 which I can’t find in either current Patchwatch or archive. In the past I have waited a couple of months before going ahead and installing (so far with no ill effects) but I don’t like doing it – can anyone shed any light please?

Same with me. 2862152 relating to Direct Access and 2868725 relating to disabling RC4 (do not know what either are) showed up as security updates on my W7 pc and ….152 on both my XP pcs. The release date for both is 11/12/13. I did do a search in both the Patch Watch bulletin and on this forum. Any info. on these would be appreciated.

Question: In the patch chart, KBs 2506223 and 2508272 say “wait for further testing” in the description but indicate “Install” in the right column. Which is correct – Install or Wait?

I really appreciate your patch watch column as I always use it before patching our XP’s.