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. > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -- -- http://www.fastmail.com - Accessible with your email software or over the web -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
