The woes of WIN 7 Sp1

[15Degrees]

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.

[aker]

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.

[15Degrees]

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!!!

[boco]

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

[15Degrees]

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

[boco]

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.

[aker]

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