Updates Windows 7

[Iamcazzy]

When I shut down my Widows 7 PC, there's a notification on the shut down button that updates are ready to be installed. The PC closes down as normal after it's done what's necessary.

When I boot up the PC the following day, a window appears saying that it's configuring updates starting at 0% and the revolving "busy" circle is on screen. After about five minutes. a message appears that windows is unable to configure updates, followed by a message that it's reverting changes. The password window then appears as it normally does and after entering my password, it boots into windows as normal.

This has been happening for around four days now. Should I be trying to update these updates by some other means?

Thank you.

[Iamcazzy]

Incidentally, the 0% figure on screen does not rise at all.

[boxtops]

I can't say but it doesn't happen to me like that - either I get the message saying it's updating as it closes down, or another comes up during a session saying "I'm going to restart to finish your upgrade" (which it does unless you tell it not to). Yours doesn't sound right.

[craft1948]

This happened to me the other day...............a couple of days later it downloaded some more updates which then went through okay.

[mrs_overall]

Snap - to Craft's answer, the same happened to me

[ChuckFickens]

Try running a manual update first, if that doesn't clear it then post back and somebody will post how to reset the windows updates.

[maggie21]

this happened to me try downloading the updates individually, bit of a slow task but it does work.

[Iamcazzy]

Thanks all. How do I go about running a manual update? Sorry if I'm a bit thick!

[galeck1947]

Open the start panel in the search box type troubleshooting and when it appears open the trouble shooting panel, scroll down to the fix windows updates and click on that and open fix updates and it will check and repair any faulty ones that can cause your problems . This should help you and also allow you to install SP1 if you haven't already done it.

[moonraker558]

Download them manually, uncheck auto updates they are a pain in the butt.