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Hi,

I just did a fresh install of windows 7 x64 on my laptop but the windows update wasn't working and all I was getting was the "checking for updates" message. So I decided to try wsus. It downloaded about 2GB of updates with no problem. I ran the UpdateInstaller with the "automatic reboot and recall" checked. It was going all well and it did installed a couple of updates and rebooted the system one time, but then I got a message from windows update that it needs to restart the system and it seemed that the prompt has paused wsus process, I pressed the restart option and wsus started to work again but the system got rebooted.

After that, wsus gets stuck at "Listing ids of missing updates". I left it over the night but in the morning noting was changed, so I guess the "be patient" part won't work. I ran the UpdateGenerator again at it went smoothly but the UpdateInstaller still gets stuck at "Listing ids of missing updates".

I tried to install the following updates manually as it is suggested in the forum, the "WindowsUpdateAgent-7.6" got installed but when I tried to install the first update the installer got stuck "Searching for updates on this computer".

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- WindowsUpdateAgent-7.6 (from .\client\w61(-x64)\glb)
<reboot>
- KB3078601
- KB3087039
- KB3102810
- KB3104002
- KB3109094
<reboot>

I would appreciate any suggestion.

Thanks!

Which version of WSUS Offline Update (WOU) are you using? The list of updates you installed manually is too old to be of any use, so it's no wonder the system searches for updates "forever" and WOU is listing missing update IDs.

I suggest to install all updates that are listed in .\current\client\static\StaticUpdateIds-wupre-w61.txt, then reboot the system and try WOU again afterwards.

Regards
Dalai

Thanks for the fast reply.

The wsus offline version is 10.7 and my .\current\client\static\StaticUpdateIds-wupre-w61.txt is like this:

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2552343
3138612
3078601
3109094
3145739
3020369
3161608
3164033
3168965


I downloaded all (except 3161608 which I couldn't find) but when I try to install the first one I get the same ever lasting "Searching for updates on this computer" message.

Set Windows Update to never check for updates, otherwise it will try to do so (which takes forever).

Also it could help if you post the contents of %WinDir%\wsusofflineupdate.log here in [code] tags, so we can see which updates got installed correctly, and which didn't.

Regards
Dalai

Also it helps to quit wusa.exe (when it is "searching for updates") using the task manager and restart the service "wuauserv"/"Windows Update". Then it should be a little faster.

Thank you for the reply.

Changing Windows update to never check for updates and a reboot did the trick.