{"id":799,"date":"2016-05-11T06:04:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T06:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=799"},"modified":"2019-04-11T13:38:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T11:38:04","slug":"windows-7-sp1-may-2016-update-search-takes-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2016\/05\/11\/windows-7-sp1-may-2016-update-search-takes-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 SP1: May 2016 Update search slow, taking forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"win7\"[German<\/a>]Last night, I was hit during Microsoft May patch day (05\/190\/2016) with an extraordinary long update search under Windows 7 SP 1. It seems that Microsoft has changed something in Windows update client and that security update KB3153199 should fix again a \"slow Windows 7 SP1 update search\".<\/p>\n

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\"\"Here, on my Windows 7 SP 1 productive system it took about an hour to find some updates (whilst a Windows 8.1 machine was able to detect updates within 10 minutes). I mentioned \"\"it in my German blog post Patchday: Microsoft Updates vom 10. Mai 2016<\/a> (written this night).   <\/p>\n

\"Update-Suche\" <\/p>\n

Booting my Windows 7 SP1 system this morning I was notified \"all updates from 05\/10.2016 are successfully installed\". Also a new update search finished within a minute and found another update for Microsoft Security Essentials. <\/p>\n

I've addressed a slow update search within my German blog post Windows 7: Update findet nichts oder es dauert ewig<\/a>. But it seems, that the hints mentioned within my blog posts doesn't works anymore for Mai 2016 patch day. I decided to start my morning activities to search for Mai 2016 update issues, but don't know, why I started my web search with update KB3153199<\/a>. This Windows Kernel-Mode driver update has been successful installed last night. Searching for this update brought me some hits. The article Win7 Windows Update once again taking forever<\/a> at askwoody.com confirms, that I wasn't hit alone with this Update search issue. Here's what another user wrote:<\/p>\n

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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 \u2013 I saw it coming!)<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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There is a newer win32k.sys security update posted on May 10 \u2013 KB3153199<\/a> (MS16-062)<\/em> <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The hint to download security patch KB3153199<\/a> and install it manually should speed up Windows 7 SP 1 update search. I found also a second hint on this German site wu.krelay.de<\/a> (dealing with \"speeding up W7 update search), mention the new security patch KB3153199<\/a> as another recommended update to speed up Windows update search.  <\/p>\n

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But there are two side notes. First of all, I noticed, that installing security patch KB3153199<\/a> manually on another Windows 7 SP1 machine was taking an extra ordinary long time \u2013 reporting \"searching for updates on this computer\". It was running now since 20 Minutes without installing the offline update \u2026<\/p>\n

Within the comment section here<\/a>, another user speculates, that too much traffic slows down Microsoft Update servers. But I can't believe that, because my Windows 8.1 machine was able to find Windows updates much faster.  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Anyway, if you are facing a slow Windows 7 SP1 update search within the next few days, maybe the hints given above will be helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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