My windows 7 updater was been bugging out since I got a fresh install of windows 7, I downloaded the patch that was meant to fix this. And I thought it did at first, the updates download and started to install and then in went crazy agian... anyone have a fix for this? ( the patch I downloaded was KB3102810 )
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It's a known-with-problems KB. unfortunately, even if it installs correctly, after a while it causes other updates to behave in the same way.
Now to install or reinstall it when it causes trouble for other updates:
(Uninstall the update if it's already installed)
Start in safemode and delete the contents of the "windows\Softwaredistribution" folder. *
- Start in normal mode
- Install/reinstall the update
- Restart
*This will cause for the initial scan & download of updates to take a long time first time you run windows update again, but since there is no specific fix, it's a viable workaround.
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The patch I downloaded was KB3102810
There is a new patch (KB3161608), released 21st June 2016:
This update contains some improvements to Windows Update Client in Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. This includes the following:
- An optimization that addresses long scan time for updates that's reported on some computers.
- Fix for a Windows Update error 0x8007000E on some computers while they are updating.
- Some reliability improvements.
How to get this update
Install the June 2016 update rollup for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (KB3161608).
Source Windows Update Client for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2: June 2016
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