I have a HP Compac nc6400 laptop. It was running XP (32 bit). I have just installed Windows 7 (64 bit). I had successfully applied Windows Updates several times. But now when I check for updates, it never completes the checking.
I have looked on the internet to find a solution. One thing I tried was running the attached bat file. I still had the problem. Another was a "Fixit" from MS. It did not fix it but after it ran the history of applied updates is gone. One of the last updates was to apply SP1. It still shows in System Info so I don't think it backed out anything. I think it just erased the history.
I thought about restoring to a system checkpoint but there weren't any which kind of sureprised me. I thought when updates were applied a checkpoint was created.
I had recently installed Chrome and Avast right about the time I noticed the problem. I uninstalled them but that did not fix the problem. I have since reinstalled them.
I have thought about doing another clean install but thought there might be something simpler I could try. What can I do to fix this?
Thnaks for your help.
