W7/64: Perpetually failing update

[degibson]

Every boot, I'm seeing the same thing. Windows Update, 0% complete. It stays there for a few minutes, times out, gives up, spends ~15 seconds reverting, and then boots normally.

Mostly, this is just an irritation that boot takes ~minutes instead of ~seconds. Any thoughts on how to remedy?

 

[Ancalagon44]

Its those 4 updates right? I had that.

Try installing them manually when you are in Windows itself. There was also a pack that I downloaded that had all of those updates in it. But try doing it manually, that should do the trick.

Dont know how this one made it past QA.

 

[degibson]

Just ran the install manually. Will reboot in a new minutes. For some reason it took a forum post for me to realize I could do it myself on W7. Ever since I left XP, I've been windows lame.

Thanks Ancalagon, for the quick reply.

 

[degibson]

Worked. Thanks again.

 

[funboy6942]

Had same problem and doing a manual install worked for me as well. Thanks for posting this thread for I would of done a total restore and just have it happen again down the road.

 

[degibson]

Had same problem and doing a manual install worked for me as well. Thanks for posting this thread for I would of done a total restore and just have it happen again down the road.

No problem. Any opportunity to complain, especially about everyone's favorite product/company.

 

[Emulex]

just do 1 patch at a time and reboot in between. its a known bug