Windows 7 Serious Update Problems

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Cheemag

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Me again,

I have a new Win7 Pro machine. It appears it's only updated to SP-1.

Yesterday I asked it to check for updates. It returned 'Checking for Updates'. It was still checking for updates when I went to bed with no result. Other machines would come back with the number and type of updates available or 'No updates available'.

Today an update message popped up saying updates were available. There were 160-odd (as I recall).As this was clearly too many to do in one go, I stopped the update hoping to be able to download a few at a time. Now it tells me it's checking for updates but never gets any further than that.

How should I best proceed should it eventually decide to tell me there are 160-odd updates available ?

Regards,

Cheemag
 
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I wouldn't risk it Cheemag as there are simply hundreds if not thousands of security fixes in those updates. Some will close vulnerabilities found within the os which neither kaspersky or Malwarebytes will cater for so yes you do need them really.
If you have your update settings on 'check for updates but ask me whether to download and install them' you can simply check off a few updates at a time. I used to do this and it takes the strain off somewhat.
Try installing them in batches of 10 or 20?
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Accessed it using Waterfox !!

Thanks very much for that. I'll try that approach as the Update hasn't offered me any updates so far today. The 300Mb should not be a problem.

Regards

Cheemag
 
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RichM said:
By any chance are you missing the indication that some updates require a shut down to install them?
If so there would be a sort of large exclamation point over the word "shut down" on the Start Menu.
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Noooo ... I don't as yet have any updates to install ! It offered unspecified updates Sunday (Monday?) but accepting took me to Control Panel>Update. No updates were shown as available there. Search for Updates did not succeed in finding anything up to 12 hours later.

I'll try the Rollup W7 update detailed by Kemical above.

Regards,

Cheemag
 
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