Stalled on Listing ids of missing updates

[JoesGarage]

I have been trying this for 5 days now. Stalled on Listing ids of missing updates. I have read & tried many "fixes" for this but none have worked.
I am trying to update Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 2 32 bit. Windows update goes nowhere it just checks for updates forever. (I have left it run more than 24 hours) it never shows the updates. I have let wsusoffline run for more than 24 hours. it just stalls at Listing ids of missing updates. Anyone have any idea how too fix this & get the Windows updates working again?

[p0k3m0n]

I have the same problem. Three different systems Vista 32, Vista 64 and W7 64bit. It is not only You.

[Denniss]

Disable automatic windows updates and reboot, then start our tool again. If it works now please follow instruction regarding reboot and recalling. If "nothing more to do" appears re-enable automatic windows updates.

[JoesGarage]

"Disable automatic windows updates and reboot, then start our tool again." I have tried that 6 times. Still stalled, no progress.

[Denniss]

It seems our most recent version does not contain a prerequisite update for Windows Vista and the 9/2016 patchday (still on 8/2016 level).
According to the site below Vista users shall install KB3185911 to reduce search times.
http://wu.krelay.de/en/

[77sunset]

Same effect here, 20 hours waiting time, automatic Windows updates turned off. Tried with virtualbox-4.3.40, virtualbox-5.0.26, virtualbox-5.1.6. Each a fresh Windows 7 Prof installation with just vbox drivers added. High load on 1 CPU, persists.

[aker]

Could you post the last 5-10 lines of C:\Windows\WindowsUpdate.log and the time, when you copied them?

[PsiFire]

I was able to get past the same issue by installing the updates mention here: http://wu.krelay.de/en/

Just make sure you turn OFF the windows update service before you download/install them manually. Also, I run wsusoffline as an administrator. Don't know if that makes any difference.

Also worth noting, it took my older (AMD 4600+) machine about a half hour to get through the process.

[mrdav1e]

I was able to get past the listing ids of missing updates by going to the above mentioned website http://wu.krelay.de/en/ and installing the 12 updates listed for win7x64. I had the computer on for 20 hours and it didn't get past it. That time didn't include all my previous trial and tribulations of this stupid win 7 update issue.
I had already run the program to get all the updates so I didn't repeat downloading them. I ran the update installer program and it got past the listing ids of missing updates problem in a minute or so. The machines now are installing the downloaded updates.
I also did turn off windows defender and windows updates previous to the stall. They are still off. I will turn them back on once the installation is complete.
Typically after re-installing windows 7 it would take at the max 24 hrs to find and install the updates. For this re-installation my 3 identical win7x64 professional laptops were not receiving updates after 36 hrs. So then I started researching this problem.
It appears it's finally solved.
Thanks so much,
Dave

[RobJ]

Have the same problem here, Windows 7 32-bit works OK but Vista 32-bit hangs when listing
missing updates even after 15 hours of running.
Is it possible to manually add the correct prerequisite update? Or do I have to wait for a new
release?