Hello!
First off thank you to everyone who will take the time to look and help me through this :)
So, I recently had the need to change the HDD (old one went kaput) on my laptop (Acer aspire TimelineX 3820T) and I reinstalled Windows 7 Home premium on the new one to factory condition using the recovery disks I had.
No troubles so far, had to deal with removing useless junk before anything else, installed Avast antivirus and firefox and then went to connect to the internet to start updating.
I update to Service Pack 1 and here problems start popping up...
For starters windows update presented a crippling memory leak whenever it went to scan for new updates, it went every time to occupy over 3GB of RAM out of 4 I have. Not only that, but no updates were ever actually displayed, or they were displayed but installling them would just not work.
I tried a few things, from WindowsFixit routine (last version and an old one wich had an "aggressive mode"), the windows troubleshooting tool for windows update, updating the update manager (hihihi :lolg:) and manually running the update kb3050265 which was supposed to address this problem to no avail.
I came upon
this thread (hope it's ok to link it) where it's said that update KB3065987 can be used instead, so I went for a different approach.
In order to reduce eventual damage or conflicts from my meddling, I RESTORED Windows 7 to its base form (from windows restore) and reinstalled the SP1 from scratch.
Afterwards I directly applied the update KB3065987 and see how it went.
Result:
First automatic update search, a bit slow, no excessive memory leak, but NO UPDATE FOUND (yeah, right....:confused2: )
Second search: very big memory consumption (but better than before, so it did improve), but after one hour and half it was still stuck on looking for updates.... :banghead:
I didn't do anything else except running SCFix (below) and I am out of ideas :grin1:
Anyone that knows what is happening here?
I have no problem whatsover if I switch off automatic updates and simply don't run it, but well... :noidea:
SFCFix version 2.4.5.0 by niemiro.
Start time: 2015-08-21 16:01:39.344
Microsoft Windows 7 Service Pack 1 - amd64
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