{"id":1969,"date":"2017-05-02T11:07:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T17:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.natsci.colostate.edu\/cnsit\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2017-05-02T11:07:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T17:07:19","slug":"windows-7-sp1-update-slowness-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/windows-7-sp1-update-slowness-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 SP1 Update Slowness Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have noticed a bug in the update process for Windows 7 SP1 machines.\u00a0 The pattern we see is when a machine hasn&#8217;t run updates since before October 2016, and when a current update is started, we sit on the &#8220;Checking for Updates&#8221; step for what could be hours and hours.\u00a0 One solution is to just wait &#8211; it actually does find them after about a day or so.\u00a0 A much better option was developed by Bob Childs, and involves a few manual installations to kick start the &#8220;Checking for Updates&#8221; process.<\/p>\n<p>1) Install the update found here first: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catalog.update.microsoft.com\/Search.aspx?q=KB3177467\">https:\/\/www.catalog.update.microsoft.com\/Search.aspx?q=KB3177467<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Choose the download button for your appropriate version:<\/p>\n<p>32 Bit: Update for Windows 7 (KB3177467)<br \/>\n64 Bit: Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB3177467)<\/p>\n<p>If it doesn\u2019t prompt you to do the install fairly quickly (I\u2019ve found it will pop up in around 20-30 seconds), you may need to do a restart (I\u2019ve had to do it 3-4 times).<\/p>\n<p>2) Restart the machine.<\/p>\n<p>3) Now, install the update found here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catalog.update.microsoft.com\/search.aspx?q=kb3172605\">http:\/\/www.catalog.update.microsoft.com\/search.aspx?q=kb3172605<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Choose the download button for your appropriate version:<\/p>\n<p>32 Bit: Update for Windows 7 (KB3172605)<br \/>\n64 Bit: Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB3172605)<\/p>\n<p>Again you may have to a restart if it doesn\u2019t pop up the install this update prompt.<\/p>\n<p>4) This will prompt a restart.<\/p>\n<p>5) Finally, run the windows updater.\u00a0 Sometimes it pops up the updates immediately, but sometimes you have to check in the start menu (and do the shutdown\/install updates).\u00a0 Either way, it will pop updates up in a couple of minutes instead of waiting for hours and hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have noticed a bug in the update process for Windows 7 SP1 machines.\u00a0 The pattern we see is when a machine hasn&#8217;t run updates since before October 2016, and when a current update is started, we sit on the &#8220;Checking for Updates&#8221; step for what could be hours and hours.\u00a0 One solution is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knowledge-base","category-tips-and-tricks","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}