Windows 7 Update broken

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WARNING to W7 users - MS Update is borked (see https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-update/error-code-80248015/aeae2fcd-100a... )

I have just rung UK support who -idiots - told me to reinstall Windows, and when I mentioned the thread above, suddenly went all quiet.

[#2 · Accepted solution]

I thought that was fixed?

https://www.askwoody.com/2017/windows-update-in-win7-now-appears-to-be-working-properly/

[#3]

@jab1

Thanks for the heads-up on that one. I was going to update mine later on today but won't bother now.  

Do you know if it affects both versions? I run Win 7 x64.

[#4]

@Pete11 Yes it does -I'm on X64

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@Browni wrote:

I thought that was fixed?

https://www.askwoody.com/2017/windows-update-in-win7-now-appears-to-be-working-properly/

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Reading further down the replies, it appears not for everyone.

[#6]

As of a few months ago, a minority of the Windows 7 computers and all the Vista computers I have seen had not manged to install Windows Updates since mid 2016.  The process svchost would consume an entire processor core in a vain attempt to find updates whenever the afflicted computer was online.  I don't know if Microsoft ever did anything about that particular issue.  

[#7]

@ReedRichards This isn't the same issue. The current one revolves around an M$ failure to update one of their own certificates.

[#8]

@Browni I won't know until I check later, but it appears that stopping and restarting WU in services may have fixed it.

[#9]

This also states that MS have fixed the problem.

[#10]

Well, @Browni , it certainly hadn't been fixed at 0830 for me. I actually ran disk check this morning as I had a couple of unrelated niggles, and it wasn't fixed then.

[#11]

Strange, perhaps your issue is/was unrelated to the widespread problem.

[#12]

We shall see, but I  had to stop WU in services, alter options to 'never check', run a manual check, then reset WU to automatic, after which it did ANOTHER check, but it seems OK now.

I'll know more tomorrow , if I remember to go back to Control Panel.

[#13]

The November update worked fine for me - December is released next week, I assume?

This site may be helpful for those having problems; it's got me out of trouble in the past when Windows Update seemed broken.

[#14]

Thanks for the info..... however,.... just checked my updates...  Running Windows 7 Professional.... I did a "manual" update on Tuesday of a "preview"  

Have no problems to date....

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@Browni wrote:

I thought that was fixed?

https://www.askwoody.com/2017/windows-update-in-win7-now-appears-to-be-working-properly/

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I have marked this as a fix - following the advice, all now seems well.