windows update stuck

[George Neuner]

Hi all,

Since Patch Tuesday, all 5 of my Windows 7 machines have gone bananas.
I discovered that Wuauserv.exe is running flat out on 1 core on each
machine, and Windows Update has been stuck at 0% for a week trying to
download the latest updates.

I disabled automatic checks and rebooted. Then I ran the WU Fixit
tool from
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/971058
and rebooted when it was done.

That fixed problems with 4 of my machines ... it "reregistered" the WU
client on 2 of them, and erased the software distribution directory on
all. After an hour or so resynchronizing, 3 of the machines happily
updated afterward.

But many hours later 1 of them still is "checking for updates" ???
How long is "too long" to check? (on a 3GHz P4 HT)


But running the Fixit tool the 5th machine (an i3 laptop) continues to
get stuck at "resolving problems". It sits there for hours if I
allow it. None of the others took more than ~15 minutes to run the
fix.

How long is "too long" to "resolve problems"?

Thanks,
George

[George Neuner]

Update:

2 of my machines appear to be normal after updating.

However on one i5 desktop, even after updating successfully,
wuauserv.exe went right back to running flat out on 1 core.

The i3 laptop finally completed running the Fixit tool and is now
"checking" for updates. After 4.5 hours, the P4 finally finished
checking and has begun downloading the latest updates.

We'll see what happens.
George