- Joined
- Dec 27, 2008
This is the bane of my existence at work right now. Every computer that I have fresh wiped and reinstalled Windows 7 Enterprise on has needed the same type of treatment - each time a different set of updates has been required. You're not alone. Glad I caught this thread because right now I have a machine that isn't updating despite installing both July and August roll ups, 5 or 6 other updates I had on hand that worked on other machines... and I've been constantly clearing the distro folder and caroot2 folder to manually reset updates history.
Messed up thing is I am past the point where you get the 234 updates. I had to install all 234 updates ~20-25 at a time because the first time it failed on 49 of them and reverted back. However, it failed on a few more updates after it reverted so it chose the restore point before all 234 updates were installed. Such a pain - wasted at least 3-4 hours of time and I have been going at this since noon yesterday.
Going to try some of the updates mentioned in this thread and hope it works out. Right now I can't even install Office 2016 because the update service hangs.
Oh and IE doesn't work at all. Trying to navigate past MSN.com just comes up as a blank page or indefinitely attempts to query the
website you type in.
That is so frustrating, isn't it?. If you can get another browser installed offline like Chrome or Firefox, use it instead. Copy the standalone installer to a flash drive with another computer and then move it over to the over to the one you are currently working on.
http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/google-chrome-full-standalone-offline-installer-links
What I don't understand is why Micorosoft can't fix this once and for all. They seem to have no problems making update work reliably in Windows 10. Why can't they do it in Windows 7?
Last edited: