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Incredibly Slow Windows Updates? You’ll Want This…

Posted July 6, 2016 Windows

For some reason, Microsoft decided not to make the following patch critical, or even make it easy to find – it’s the very first patch you should install before attempting to update Windows 7\2008 after a clean install – KB3102810 resolves the stupid “Checking for updates” taking a whole day.

If you perform a lot of Windows installs, you may notice that checking for Updates takes a whole lot longer than installing Windows. This is due to some big fat bug that Microsoft patched in November last year, details can be found here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/3102810

Once installed and rebooted – Updates will start flowing through at a decent rate.

Incredibly Slow Windows Updates? You'll Want This...
Posted July 6, 2016
Written by John Payne