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Hiya Guys

It is a strange route that has led me here. The other day i decided to do a fresh install on my Alienware M18 R2. All went well until I tried to do updates and then of course it just hung and hung and hung. I reinstalled again and of course the same issue. I ventured to Google for solutions and tried this one

https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/co ... t_install/

It didnt work. I installed Windows 10 which of course then didn't work with my Alienware as the best drivers i can get are all Win 8.1

Finally after much more Google I ended up here and as i write this am currently downloading 95 of 216 Office 2010 updates.


So to my question.

Can i save all these updates somewhere so if i do an install again I don't have to download the lot again i can just do an install? I am assuming that at the moment I am downloading them all and the tool is installing them all?

Cheers
Mark.

wsusou is an integrated solution for downloading and installing updates automatically. UpdateGenerator will download all current updates for a specific platform and UpdateInstaller will determine on the target system, which ones have to be installed. Nothing will be deleted until you delete it.

Ahhhh

So I select what i want to download and then it downloads them all the client folder and then inside the client folder I install them using that exe. I can also then copy the client folder to a drive or flash drive etc for use later..

Once downloaded do they all show in windows update installed updates section?

Got it

PS
I downloaded 8 GIGS worth!!!

They will show in "Updates installed". Due to an oddity with Windows Update, most of them will not show in Update History, however.

Hiya

I'm guessing I need to run this on a fresh clean install of win 7 yes? I tried it this morning and it was stuck at installing the first update for over 2 hours. I suppose this is because my system had already installed the roll up update

No, the patch level does not matter. The long search/install problem is is a very common issue caused by MS. There are solutions (installing certain updates first, like WSUSOU already does), unfortunately it doesn't work for everyone alike.

Please set Windows Update to "Never search for updates". Then reboot. Does it work now?