KB 3161647 contains the "fix for a Windows Update error 0x8007000E on some computers while they are updating" as well as "some reliability improvements." The update rollup KB 3161608 includes four fixes that are completely unrelated. Confused yet? The only way you can get KB 3161647 is by installing the update rollup KB 3161608. Second, Microsoft doesn't have a download for the Win7 scan fix by itself. There's a description and a workaround in my post from a year ago. Note that there were problems with KB 3020369 triggering a "Stage 3 of 3" hang. Microsoft doesn't document that anywhere, but various reports indicate that you need it installed. Here are the two gotchas with Microsoft's official fix:įirst, you have to install last year's servicing stack update, KB 3020369, before you can install the speedup patch. There aren't many companies that would treat half their installed user base to such an experience. Of course, conspiracy theorists took this as one more sign that Microsoft doesn't give a rat's patootie about Windows 7 users.
Millions of people were sitting, hour upon hour, waiting for Microsoft's servers in the sky to get their act together. There was little activity over the internet, almost no activity on the PC, while "check for updates" kept checking and checking and checking. Every month there were different patches.īut what really got my goat: Those hours-long waits generally involved the computer just sitting there. Ī German site, wu., issued new speed-up advisories for March, April, May, and June, all with intricate tables of the downloads that could shave hours off Win7 update tasks. Apart from that, they seemed to be completely random. All of these solutions had one thing in common: they involved replacing win32k.sys. In June, the magic bullet came from KB 3161664. In May, EP found that installing a totally different patch, KB 3153199, also did the trick. In April, poster EP on discovered that installing two completely unrelated patches - KB 3138612 and KB 3145739 - could reduce Win7 update scan times from hours down to minutes. The monthly Win7 patch whack-a-mole has been reaching Keystone Kops proportions. Microsoft claims to have finally solved the problem with speedup patch KB 3161647, but there are a couple of gotchas.
The check for Windows updates - a simple process that should take a few minutes - has ballooned to two, three, four, eight, or more hours for many (I'm tempted to say most) Win7 customers. For the past five months, there has been a crescendo of complaints about slow Windows 7 scans.
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