I expect the final solution is going to be a new laptop. Thing is, this
one's got two hard drive bays + the optical drive. So far, Googling for
a Laptop w/2 HDD bays AND an optical drive hasn't been too productive.
If I find one, I'll blast this one & do a clean re-install of Windoze 7
SP1 before I put it up on Craig's list.
On 6/9/2016 4:16 PM, Brian Walters wrote:
I've recently struck the same problem with my old Vista laptop.
Microsoft's suggested solutions all seem especially unhelpful.
At this stage I'm just shrugging my shoulders and ignoring the updates.
Cheers
Brian
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016, at 03:40 AM, John wrote:
I've been trying to download Updates for my laptop. I've run into the
dreaded "Downloading ... (0 KB total, 0% complete)" monster. It runs for
hours without any progress.
I've been running it since Monday. I'm not even really upset about it
yet. I've got it sitting over on the side & I give it a nudge every once
in a while.
One solution recommended stopping the the Windows Update Service in Task
Manager to see if it would allow installation of already downloaded
updates. That gave me 3 optional updates plus a new video driver & a new
driver for the touch-pad yesterday, but nothing since.
None of the solutions I've found on-line have worked, except that I
found a stand-alone installer for a new "Windows Update Client for
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2". That *seemed* like it might have
installed.
I got a BSOD immediately after it reached 100%, but when the laptop
restarted I got a message under the Windoze Logo splash screen like
"completing step 281 of 281" and then it went into the "updating -
please wait". It finally came up to the Login screen like it's supposed
to.
I'm currently trying to download & install ONE update (the oldest one I
could find by release date). Why doesn't Windoze just allow you to sort
them by release date?
Doesn't look encouraging.
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