So basically I have an old laptop (asus x80l), and I want to give it to my gf for studying, originally it had Vista but I slapped the shit out of it with a fresh Windows 7 install (MSDN updated image from 2011). There's a problem - the windows update thingy is shitting itself constantly, eating RAM and CPU usage.
The problem is quite frequent, my googling shows, there's also this
[url]https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/4a782e40-bbd8-40b7-869d-68e3dfd1a5b4/windows-update-scan-high-memory-usage?forum=w7itproperf[/url]
but I can't even install the update because the update thingy just gets stuck. What should I do? How to forcefully install this update? Or maybe install an older windows 7 image?
the windows update going crazy thing takes a day or so to resolve
iirc it's windows figuring out what KBs it actually needs to go and request or something
eventually windows update will tell you what you actually need to install and do it
What are your Windows Update settings?
[QUOTE=_Pai;50200367]What are your Windows Update settings?[/QUOTE]
I think it does this on any settings, at first I set it to automatically update, then set it to not update at all, and it still chugs all the RAM (svchost to be precise)
[editline]25th April 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;50200349]the windows update going crazy thing takes a day or so to resolve
iirc it's windows figuring out what KBs it actually needs to go and request or something
eventually windows update will tell you what you actually need to install and do it[/QUOTE]
so you mean I should leave it running for a couple of days?
[QUOTE=damnatus;50200421]I think it does this on any settings, at first I set it to automatically update, then set it to not update at all, and it still chugs all the RAM (svchost to be precise)
[editline]25th April 2016[/editline]
so you mean I should leave it running for a couple of days?[/QUOTE]
yes, leave it running and it should fix itself
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;50200491]yes, leave it running and it should fix itself[/QUOTE]
aight, will do, then i'll report here
Breaking the lurk, because this problem gave me so much grief.
Based on what you describe, we had this exact same problem where I work. Clients when they logged in would have svchost eating nearly all the available RAM on them, CPU usage would also jump up quite high. Granted you're not on a domain environment but I've seen it happen on freshly built/non-domain laptops & computers.
The patches that fixed it for us were these (You need to have [B]Windows 7 Service Pack 1[/B] installed so fingers crossed you chose it from MSDN): [URL="https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/3050265"]KB3050265[/URL] and [URL="https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/3102810"]KB3102810[/URL]
The first patch is aimed at addressing the memory issue, second is aimed at the windows update checking taking absolutely forever. In my experience: we're talking from a whole day or two checking for updates to under 45 minutes. The laptop you're dealing with might take a little longer than that.
Give it a try and see what happens, google the KB numbers if you're understandably skeptical of a first post.
Yeah but I can't install any updates at all, due to the same problem. Maybe I should install a different Windows 7 image? Can you recommend me one?
[editline]26th April 2016[/editline]
Also, it has been running for almost 20 hours, no result yet, still "checking for updates"
Awwww shit it finally responded, says it needs to install about 160 updates (holy crap)
Okay this is some ol bullshit
After installing like 80% of the updates, it went "nope lol not enough ram", I rebooted it to see if at least any were properly installed (it continued to install on the windows blue login/logout screen as well), and nope, only 7-8 of those 160 were installed. what the fuck even?
Edit: I left it to try again, this time it worked
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