Windows 7 updates finally installed, what I did.

StymiedMike · Jan 16, 2019

About a year ago I installed Windows 7 on an SSD but could never get all the updates downloaded & installed.
https://www.sysnative.com/forums/wi...windows-7-install-wont-update.html?highlight=

I had put the SSD aside but a few weeks ago tried updating it again. It did not update after several attempts. I don't recall the error messages but searching brought me to these links.
https://www.technipages.com/windows-code-80243004-fix

SOLVED: Windows Update Failed with Error 80243004 - Up & Running Technologies, Tech How To's

As the second link says, this sounds stupid. But after I checked the box "Always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar" the updating worked.

I downloaded & installed them in small batches going by date order, with the oldest dates first. I didn't want to have a conflict installing older ones over newer ones.

And then it stopped working again & I could not download KB4471318, the December 2018 Monthly Rollup. More searching indicated update KB3177467 was needed.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...r-windows-7-sp1-and-windows-server-2008-r2-sp

It appears update KB3177467 should have been included as part of all the updates I was downloading, but it wasn't.

I went to the Microsoft website & manually downloaded KB3177467 to a USB stick, then manually installed it onto to the SSD. After that the KB4471318 Monthly Rollup started downloading.

Finally the SSD is updated.

Sysnative Windows Update · Jan 18, 2019

Hi!

Thank you for letting us know what worked for you.

StymiedMike · Jan 18, 2019

softwaremaniac said:
Hi!

Thank you for letting us know what worked for you.

Hopefully some of that might help someone else.

I thought how could checking the box "Always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar" make any difference. It did sound wacky however the suggestion showed up twice & I figured what's there to lose. But it worked.

The requirement of having update KB3177467 was from Microsoft. Their catalog listed a few versions & one was from 2016 IIRC. I looked on my current spinner HDD & it had two occurrences of this, an old one & a newly installed one. Maybe Microsoft updates the update & keeps the number the same, I have no idea. But after installing the latest version on the SSD the monthly rollup would download & install.

If you have any easy to understand explanation why having "all icons and notifications on the taskbar" would make any difference I'd be interested in hearing it.

Sysnative Windows Update · Jan 18, 2019

None at all, but the update is a Servicing Stack one which has to be installed in order for the updates to work, otherwise you get the 8000FFFF error.

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Windows 7 updates finally installed, what I did.

StymiedMike

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