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• How to speed up Windows 7 Update scans – permanently

  Posted on November 4, 2016 at 05:16 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Those of you with lots of experience, please take a hard look at this article and tell me what I missed!

  InfoWorld

  Windows Patches/Security Windows 7 update slowdown

• 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

• 2 simple steps to speeding up Windows 7 update scans

  Posted on August 9, 2016 at 08:54 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  OK, they’re tedious, but they’re simple and easy to follow.

  Go from many hours to just a few minutes.

  InfoWorld Woody on Windows

  My thanks — and deep admiration — to Dalai, ch100, and EP.

  IMPORTANT: I forgot to mention one patch, KB 3020369, that also needs to be installed. Chances are very good you already have it, but if not, check the KB article to download and install it.

  UPDATE: I’m seeing reports that the July “magic” patch, KB 3168965, works for August, too. My current best guess is that it works for those who haven’t already installed the July patches.

  UPDATE 2: Dalai has updated the wu.krelay.de page to feature KB 3177725, the new “magic” August patch.

  UPDATE 3: Ends up that this month’s “magic” August patch, KB 3177725, has a bug in it that screws up printing multiple pages. Details coming in InfoWorld. For now, just relax. There’s nothing in August’s patches (or even July’s!) that’s super-critical.

  Windows Patches/Security Windows 7, Windows 7 update slowdown, Windows Update

• Win7 Windows Update once again taking forever

  Posted on May 10, 2016 at 15:33 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but ER just hit me with this:

  Sad to say this Tuesday May 10, 1pm pacific time, doing a recent Windows Update scan on a Win7 SP1 system has resulted in a seemingly long or “forever” scan.  So the KB3145739 security fix as well as the older KB3139852 fix no longer works as of 5/10/2016 (yup, I knew it – I saw it coming!)

  There is a newer win32k.sys security update posted on May 10 – KB3153199 (MS16-062)

  https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3153199

  While KB3153199 only updates the win32k.sys file (and does not supersede KB3145739 but DOES supersede KB3139852), I will manually download & install the KB3153199 security fix on my Win7 machines to resolve the very long WU scan problem.

  Can anybody else replicate?

  UPDATE: Reader LT confirms: “I was able to duplicate the KB3153199 fix for the long check for updates. “

  Windows Patches/Security Windows 7 update slowdown