Solved: Windows 7 Clean Install Not Updating

Well, I've been through the headache of updating a clean install and thought I'd save everyone the trouble I dealt with. What I discovered is that upgrading the update tool's version from the SP1 .iso image's version of 7.5.7601.17514 (Nov. 2010) directly to the latest version 7.6.7600.320 will slow updates to a crawl or worse.

So, the steps to getting Windows 7 to update normally from a clean install are as follows:

1) Download KB3083710 and KB3102810 and save to a flash drive. (64-bit OS)

2) DO NOT connect the machine to be imaged to the internet.

3) Complete the W7 SP1 OS installation. Select the "Ask me later" about updates just to be safe after the license key is entered.

4) Install KB3083710 from the flash drive. A restart will be requested.

5) Install KB3102810 from the flash drive. A restart will be requested.

6) Connect to the internet, and continue updating manually.

7) After completion, remember to choose "Update Automatically" or whichever option you prefer.


Hope this saves someone else a ****load of headache...

 

Thanks, hopefully that will help someone else.

The thing is, whichever routine you use to get WU working, it doesn't work for all machines, it's a lottery.

 

I reinstalled a couple of times, and the first thing Windows did when checking for updates was upgrade the Windows Update Agent. It really was the common denominator. This walk through is like going for the jugular. After the individual upgrades to the tool manually, the update process worked in the blink of an eye. It really seems like the Agent can't handle being updated directly, and skipping versions of itself.

I would hope this process would solve most of the clean install update issues from an SP1 .iso image.

 

Final report:

All is updated and functioning normally. The whole process took about six hours, instead of days and waiting overnight for Windows to figure out what updates it needed, let alone downloading and installing them.

 

P.S. If you need a Windows 7 SP1 disc image (.iso) you can find one here:

https://1drv.ms/f/s!Aus47WpmlzFPgSpTAMgwUz11pB1y

 

mekanic...

Thanks for the link. It's not working for me. Got a time out. I've had problems with OneDrive and links, so I don't know if it's me or the link. If you made it public, I guess it's on my end somehow...

 

The link takes me there. Haven't tried to download. The same link in other thread(s) has also always worked. WIn 8 & IE11.

 

Downloaded the .iso in less than fifteen minutes via broadband. Def works.

 

I tried this on my Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and it's a no dice.

I just stopped worrying about it.

Not worried about updates any how.If any thing all them up dates make the system worse not better.

 

Be cause some of the updates bring bug issues that tend to break things.

It's like any kinda MMO game when they do a weekly patch to fix some thing.Some thing else tends to break in the process.

 

Dude how many times do i have to say it.Stop.

I know what the heck i am doing.

And i have zero security issues.

I don't get virus or malware.Like every one else does.I have been dealing with OS systems since windows 1.1 and Dos.

I read up on every thing be for i apply it.

 

Try this link it was suggested my Eldon in a different post it seems to have been successful. This could speed up your download and install process

http://www.howtogeek.com/247380/how-to-fix-windows-update-when-it-gets-stuck/


http://redirect.viglink.com/?format...steps-to-speed-up-windows-7-update-scans.html