In reply to a post by bobble_bob:

Did you disable automatic updates before using WSUS? Apparently manually installing files wont work unless automatic updates is disabled

I never thought of that, thanks for that, it is now updating, hopefully I can give the owner back their machine by the end of the week.

Thanks once again

Windows Vista and 7 have always been known for having dodgy updating. As in a update can break them or cause issues or not install for almost no reason. I don't know about Vista never used it but some people have had luck by turning off windows 7s own firewall. If only just for the update and then you can turn it back on if you want. That has for an unknown reason fixed some updates from failing to install.

Windows 8.1 doesn't seem to mess up with Windows updates in my experience so there is a improvement there. It is the same for Windows 10, they may force updates on us but they rarely seem to go wrong or cause issues.

Microsoft are getting worse in some ways. At same time tho Windows update has become more reliable in last two os's.

I never had any issues with Windows Update on Vista and 7 when I was using them as my primary OS.

There does however seem to be issues between kernel-mode drivers released within the last year and the older Windows Update version used by Vista, which causes the update process to hang. Manually installing updates containing these drivers prevents Vista from stalling on them.

I think Microsoft fixed this in Windows Update on 7, but perhaps Vista won't be so lucky with only 6 months left of support.

Sorry for not replying sooner, still on holiday.

If I remember correctly, I think I had a similar problem as it appeared to be stuck. If there is no hard disk activity, shutdown and reboot, then rerun the install again and it will continue from where it left off. I'm sure this happened a few times before the auto reboot started working.

Hope this helps.

In reply to a post by Oliver341:

Same for me, 24 hours of 100% CPU with no disk activity when Windows Updates checked for updates on a fresh installation of Vista (for testing purposes within a VM).

This page contained the fix which worked for me: http://wu.krelay.de/en/

The WSUS Offline Update application automatically installs these files too.

In reply to a post by BB4Tickton:

If there is no hard disk activity, shutdown and reboot, then rerun the install again and it will continue from where it left off. I'm sure this happened a few times before the auto reboot started working.

I tried that too, but no luck. I just found a helpful video which explains the fix word for word: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HBBuBbf4Ws

its worth pointing out the patches are still been made individually but just wont be distributed in that way on windows update.

There is 3rd party tools to help manage updating without using WU, I recommend komms update checker.

You can also do things like skip win X updates, skip telemetry updates and so forth.

I also use komms update checker to make install iso's that have updates integrated.

Edited by Chrysalis (Wed 28-Sep-16 01:56:32)

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I tried that too, but no luck. I just found a helpful video which explains the fix word for word: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HBBuBbf4Ws


@Oliver341 the link you share did you try it and did it work perfectly?

In reply to a post by Ryan_Stevens:

@Oliver341 the link you share did you try it and did it work perfectly?

Yes, it still works for me with my Vista VM, it's fully up to date as of April 2017. After manually applying the updates it may still take a while to finish checking for updates, but mine still completed in under an hour.