Windows Vista- This is an operating system from Microsoft, released in 2007 to replace XP. It is presented in many editions, they exist in two architectures (x86 and x64). Everyone is worthy of attention, from Home Basic to Ultimate. Accordingly, each of these editions has its own set of components. Starting with the Home Basic version, this system can only be upgraded to a higher version. The Starter edition is presented more for review.
Due to the fact that Vista has not gained much popularity among users. Since its launch was not the most successful, due to a large number failures and shortcomings. Later, with the release of SP1 and SP2 updates, the initial impression of the product was not the best. In this regard, on April 11, 2017, Microsoft officially canceled all support for operating system"Vista". Security packages were issued for it, while technical support worked well for 10 years. Now Microsoft has decided to turn its full attention to newer products.
What to do if Windows Vista stops updating
But, in connection with the cancellation of support for the product, the question arises, now that Vista is not being updated, will it work on the computers of users who still use it, at the same time they are in no hurry to switch to other operating systems? Vista will work, but now, without support and updates, the security of users' documents and files will be at risk. Also discontinued support Internet Explorer 9.
If you decide to try Vista on your computer or you need to reinstall the OS, then you can download and install patches for it that were released in earlier periods only manually. Automatic search and installation of update packages has been discontinued because Windows Update is no longer working. Exactly, like some other features, such as support for widgets, which are gradually fading into oblivion. You can download updates for Vista on the Microsoft website in the "Support" - "Downloads" section. Whereas Windows Vista is not updated, you will need to install the SP2 package manually. Make sure you have SP1 installed first.
Greetings!
The Windows 7 operating system does not lose ground and is still the most popular operating system. It is used by millions of users around the world. And it is incredibly upsetting when failures and other emergency situations occur in it.
One of them is the constant (non-stop) search for updates in Windows 7. No errors occur, just a constant search. We will solve this actual problem by considering several effective methods.
Method One - Restarting the Windows Update Service
If after the manipulation the problem remains, then proceed to the next solution.
Method two - a recommendation from Microsoft to solve the problem of a long search for updates
- Open the menu Start, enter the text in the search bar there "Windows Update". An item of the same name will appear a little higher - click it.
- In the center window Windows updates click on the inscription "Settings", which is located on the left side of the window.
- In the settings block under the name Important updates select the item under the name from the drop-down menu "Don't check for updates..." and press the button OK, which is located at the bottom of this window.
- Next, restart your computer.
- After restarting the PC, you need to download updates in the form of files from the official website of Microsoft, the developer of Windows. After downloading, you need to run and install them.
Update options exist for both x86 bit Windows, and for x64. Download the ones that match the bit depth of your Windows 7. If you do not know the bit depth of your system, then the article will help you with this.
And here are the files themselves:
- For x64 (64 bits) Windows variant 7: Update file KB3020369 and KB3172605
- For x86 (32 bit) version of Windows 7: update file KB3020369 and KB3172605
Install the update with the alphanumeric index KB3020369 first, and after KB3172605.
Note: Don't worry if an error pops up when installing any of the above updates, it just means that it was installed earlier.
After the updates are installed, restart your computer again.
- Now you need to repeat the first step and the second step of this guide, and then you need to enable the download and installation of updates. To do this, in the update settings window in the block under the name Important updates must be selected from the drop-down menu "Install updates automatically" and press OK to save the setting.
- It remains only to wait for the download and installation of updates. If earlier the system was only reinstalled, then it is necessary to wait a long time - up to a day.
If, after the lapse of time, nothing has changed and the problem with the “eternal” search has not disappeared, then proceed to the next solution.
Method three - use the standalone update installer for Windows 7
This method is based on installing updates from a specially created package of official updates for Windows 7.
A third-party developer downloaded most of the updates from the official Microsoft website and made a special installer that, at startup, checks the system for missing updates and installs them.
After that, the problem with the constant search for updates in Windows 7 will be resolved, all subsequent updates will be installed through Windows Update, as it was before.
As we can see, there are many effective solutions, one of which will definitely return performance. Windows Update on your Windows 7 installation.
Today we will tell you how to solve one of the strangest problems that interfere with users of the operating system. Windows systems 7. And this problem lies in an excessively long, even eternal search for new updates.
Description of the problem
When trying to find and install new system updates, users are faced with the fact that the search takes too long and continues even after many hours after the start, i.e. becomes endless. At the same time, the Windows Update indicator continues to work, making you think that the process is in progress. However, the search does not complete even after several hours of tedious waiting - the Update Center just hangs at the "Searching for updates" stage.
The reason for the eternal search for updates in Windows 7
There is an opinion that the reason for the whole update client program Windows Update and subsequent changes to Windows Update servers. It seems that Microsoft has changed how the mechanism for checking and downloading updates works, so the old Windows clients Update can no longer search for and download updates from company servers. This explains the fact that in most cases the problem occurs after clean install operating system.
Ways to solve the problem
There are several working solutions, all of which are described below. Do them one by one until the problem is fixed.
1. Manual update of Windows Update Client
This is the most efficient and simple solution to the problem. In order for Windows Update to start looking for and installing updates again, you need to download the necessary updates for the client Windows programs Update and install them manually. These updates are available for both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) versions of Windows 7. You can view the operating system's bit depth in the system properties.
For 32-bit Windows versions 7 (x86):
For Windows 7 64-bit (x64):
Note: You may need to temporarily stop the Windows Update service before installing updates. You can do this by executing the following command from a command prompt running as administrator:
When the updates are installed, restart your computer and then search for new updates. After 10-60 minutes, Windows Update should show a list of all available updates. But if that doesn't work for you, read on.
2. Installing Convenience Rollup
In 2016, Microsoft released a large cumulative update package that contains almost all updates released after Windows 7 SP1 (Service Pack 1). Thus, you can try to solve the problem of an endless search for updates by installing Convenience Rollup.
Again, for your convenience, we publish direct links to download the Convenience Rollup:
It is important to note that this service pack includes updates released after SP1, so you must have SP1 installed to install Convenience Rollup. To verify that Service Pack 1 is installed, look at the system properties.
5. Edit DNS settings
A long search for updates can be caused by problems on the side of the provider's DNS server. Therefore, you can try to solve the problem by using free public DNS servers that provide a more reliable connection to the Internet.
To change the DNS address, open the Network and Sharing Center public access».
Open the connection/adapter properties.
In the properties window, find the TCP/IPv4 protocol. Double-click the left mouse button to open the properties of this protocol.
Activate the option "Use the following DNS server addresses" and enter any of the following addresses:
Google Public DNS:
- Preferred DNS Server: 8.8.8.8
- Alternate DNS Server: 8.8.4.4
Yandex.DNS:
- Preferred DNS Server: 77.88.8.8
- Alternate DNS Server: 77.88.8.1
opendns:
- Preferred DNS Server: 208.67.222.222
- Alternate DNS Server: 208.67.220.220
The new settings should take effect immediately upon application. But if you don't notice any change, try clearing the DNS cache. To do this, open a command prompt window with administrator rights, and then run the command ipconfig /flushdns.
6. Checking the integrity of system files using the SFC utility
The endless search for updates can be caused by corrupted or missing files or Windows settings update. You can check and restore the integrity of these files using the built-in SFC tool. We talked about how to work with him.
Have a great day!
One of the most unsuccessful, one might say, failed operating systems was Windows Vista. From the first days of its release and after a long time, it has earned a reputation as the most buggy OS. Subsequently, of course, SP1 and SP2 were released, modified with bug fixes and vulnerabilities. But the initial effect it produced did not pass by. Users who once heard about the unsuccessful and buggy Vista avoided it, and the “lucky ones” who dared to upgrade to it from XP very quickly returned back, literally hating, by the way, a very beautiful operating system.
After the release of SP2 and provided that it is installed on a computer with system requirements more sufficient for Vista - this is a 2-core processor, random access memory 2 GB and above, a video card of at least 512 MB Vista worked just fine. But no one paid attention to this, by that time the "seven" was in full swing winning the hearts and minds, which was nothing more than a modified and corrected Vista. But no one paid any attention to that either. The effect of the first appearance and the first failures gave their own, "Vista" was overboard. But there are still users who have appreciated the product and still use this OS. This is somewhere around 1.5% of all users in the world.
What to do if Windows Vista does not find updates
Microsoft officially ended support for Windows Vista back in 2012, 2 years before the end of support for XP. But after that time, a few minor patches were still released. And in 2017, in April, any support was completely stopped, in general. This applies not only automatic update through the Update Center, but also user support. In this regard, the system unsuccessfully tries to find files to download and install on the network by running long search updates Windows Vista, but does not find. An endless search starts.
At reinstalling Windows Vista, now after officially deprecating security packages previously released, users will have to download and install manually on the Microsoft website in the "Support" - "Downloads" section. Having previously disabled the search and installation of security patches in the settings, so as not to torment the machine without success, as the system starts the eternal search for Windows Vista updates.
Good afternoon, dear blog readers and subscribers, the previous time I told you about how to update windows 7 to windows 10, and today we will also talk about the seven and its update, more precisely, when you have an endless windows 7 update, and we will solve it in a minute, I met a bunch of people on the Internet who fell into such a situation, users want their system to be as secure as possible, and Microsoft puts spokes in the wheels, once again I am convinced that they are trying in every possible way to transfer users to their top ten, which is up to so raw it's creepy.
Before the story, I periodically build my builds of Windows, because I do not like to constantly install the same updates, spending a lot of time on it. They are very popular, because apart from official updates, there is nothing in them. Whether Microsoft wants it or not, Windows 7 is currently the most popular operating system in the world and its new brainchild, Windows 10, is not yet gaining its place in the sun so quickly, but this is not about that now.
And so I sit here and collect new version assembly, everything, as usual, I install Windows 7 on virtual machine and I start to update it, but it wasn’t there that the search for updates in Windows Update was already hanging for 5 or 6 hours, the reboot did not help, it immediately became clear that something was not right.
This is how the endless search for windows 7 updates looks like, the green slider runs and that's it, wait at least until you're blue in the face. It’s good if after some time you get an error that will be easy to search in the same Google, but it’s just a black box. I will not torment you for a long time and will immediately tell you a solution that will help in 95 percent of cases.
We solve the endless update of windows 7
The solution to the endless search for Windows 7 updates will be, oddly enough, their official offline updates, download and install, which you can solve this problem.
Download the package (KB3102810) to solve the error endless search for updates windows 7 64X (https://cloud.mail.ru/public/FuX2/8as6DnF3Y)
Download the package (KB3102810) to solve the error endless search for updates windows 7 32X (https://cloud.mail.ru/public/KGmP/Yz9AcAqbH)
do the following, we need to stop the Windows 7 update service. This is done simply in two ways:
A small addition from reader Valery, if it doesn't help with KB3102810:
Download the update KB3020369-x86(https://cloud.mail.ru/public/7c2V/yQ8j5d8JH)
Download the update KB3020369-x 64 (https://cloud.mail.ru/public/N91u/TURuiBjwm)
install it and restart your computer, then download and install the following KB
Download the update kb3172605-x86(https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9f4m/LkHLAg5qN)
Download the update kb3172605-x 64 (https://cloud.mail.ru/public/FuX2/8as6DnF3Y)
Reboot and enjoy life
A small update from user Alex, fix KB3161608 helped him fix the problem:
- endless check for updates
- high CPU load
- high memory consumption
There is also a solution that I have not tested from the user Vasily:
It is proposed to permanently solve the problem with the service " windows update" Thus.
1) Go to the control panel, disable automatic search and installation of updates.
2) Reboot the computer.
3) Download and install updates in the following order (for Windows 7 x 64):
Windows6.1-KB3020369-x64.msu
Windows6.1-kb3125574-v4-x64.msu
Windows6.1-KB3050265-x64.msu
Windows6.1-KB3065987-v2-x64.msu
Windows6.1-KB3102810-x64.msu
Windows6.1-KB3135445-x64.msu
Windows6.1-KB3138612-x64.msu
Windows6.1-KB3161664-x64.msu
Windows6.1-KB3172605-x64.msu
After installing the above updates, go to the control panel and turn on
automatic search and installation of updates
The first one is graphical, you click Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services and there already look for Windows Update, right click on it, select properties from context menu
and select the Stop button.
The second method is you open the command prompt as an administrator and enter the following command
net stop wuauserver
As a result, this service of the operating system will stop
We have fulfilled all the main conditions and our Windows 7 is now ready to install the standalone package.
If you do not stop this service, then your standalone package will not be installed, and it will also look forever for a Windows update, you will get the same endless loop
The offline installer will show you its code, it will be KB3102810, we agree to the installation, click yes.
We wait a bit until the slider reaches the end
We all see that it was successfully installed and the application requires a system restart, which we do. In 95 percent, this action allows you to eliminate the endless updating of windows 7, I hope that you are in this number.
After rebooting and trying to find updates, I successfully found them, in the first stream there were more than 200 of them, and this is normal seven then net.
After downloading them, the installation went without problems and everything is clear. Infinite update defeated. If you were unable to defeat him, then try the second method described below.
Second method
As a result, having launched the utility, select the Update Center item and click next.
Troubleshooting will start.
After correcting the errors, run the utility (WindowsUpdateDiagnostic) Diagnostics and Prevention of Problems on the Computer and make sure that such a window appears, then restart the Update Center or simply reboot.
Summing up, we have figured out how the problem is solved when the endless updating of windows 7 does not make it possible to roll up updates to the system, now the elimination of this infection will not take you much time.
Update 07/31/2016
If the methods described above did not help you and you are still endlessly looking for updates in Windows 7, then try installing this collection of updates. (They are all official, for this I answer with my head). Be sure to install on Service Pack 1.
Make sure you have the update service turned off, then run the update pack. Click to install.
I rolled, as many as 120 updates.
After installing the updates and rebooting, the endless windows 7 update will disappear.
Download UpdatePack7 Live 13.5.10
from https://cloud.mail.ru/public/Agod/3Qq2BQVEm website password
Update to fix the endless search for updates from 06/30/2018
The fourth method of fixing the endless windows update is to use the monthly update package, I already showed it to you when I did not install the Russian language and there was an error " 0x80073701". And so follow the link below:
Windows 7 - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4009469
As a result, you will be taken to a page where you can download monthly Windows update packs for certain months. I advise you to download the last few of them and install in manual mode.
In my example, I chose the June collection, opening its contents at the very bottom you will find a link to the Microsoft Update catalog.
As a result, select the desired KB based on your architecture and install. What do such collections give, they carry a number latest updates and allow you to fix the current problems with the infinite search.
