If there are any Vista users among us has anyone found a solution to the widespread problem whereby Vista will no longer download Windows Updates?
Briefly what happens if you ask Vista to check for updates it churns away for hours or days if you allow it to with no results and CPU use peaks and stays at 100%,task manager indicates "sychost"with Windows Update Agent involved and is the culprit of this high usage.Google the symptoms and there is a plethora of remedies sadly none of which I have had any success with.
I suspect that this is Microsoft depleting its support for this O.S. in their usual cavalier way.
If anybody has found a solution to this I would appreciate any hints.
Regards-
G.B.
Try this site.
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/611898/windows-vista-update-hangs-at-checking-for-updates/
Similar problems with Win7.
Seems you have to install the latest patch if you leave it too long between updates. Finding the latest patch is the problem. The ones I had don't work any more so had to find the new ones.
Thanks for the comments-
Mike-I have tried that with no success.
Ian-How do you find these missing updates?
regards-
G.B.
Read this one Graham. see if this can help.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/937287
I had to search on Google using "100% CPU windows update win7 2016"
Substitute vista and make sure you put in the date - too much old crapout there which no longer applies.
This is an example result:
https://www.askwoody.com/2016/how-to-update-vista-quickly/
And I would recommend trying to download and install the KB3168965 update they mention - that was one of the things that worked for me
Another result is here: http://wu.krelay.de/en/2016-07.htm which explains the reason and offers another patch
Hi
Noticed my Vista machine was running slow this morning. The reason was yesterday was the second Tuesday of the month and the new updates were released, so it was searching for them. Did a search and found update KB3198234 is the likely cause. So I killed the update search, installed this patch and restarted my PC. Restarted the update search and after 30 minutes it found 12 more updates. I have installed them, rebooted and all is calm again.
The update to install manually for December is KB3204723.
Thanks Jakems,I will try this update.
Regards
G.B.
The update to install manually for March is KB4012497. The next update Tuesday is 11 April 2017 which is the last scheduled update for Vista.
Thanks for that Jakems,can you remind me how you instal a Windows update manually?
Regards-
G.B.
Hi
If you Google for the patch name it should lead you to the Microsoft patch repository, for this months patch:
http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4012497 (http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4012497)
If you then click on download for the 32 bit or 64 bit Vista patch you can then either download it and run it or run direct from the web site. Reboot your computer and it took about 30 minutes before the icon came up saying there were patches to install if you have manual updates set, otherwise they will be automatically installed as per your set up.
If you did not install the November & December patches I would suggest you download and install them in date order first.
You can tell if everything is up to date if you go to Control Panel/Windows Update. It should show that the most recent check was in the last day or two and updates have been installed since 14 March.
I am obliged to you Jakems I will give that a try
Regards-
G.B.
Microsoft is pulling all support for vista.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/us-cert-warns-of-windows-vista-s-imminent-end-of-life-514074.shtml
Finally.
http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/791118/Windows-Vista-End-Of-Life-Update
R.I.P. Vista and thanks,you were not that bad :(.Sadly I never did get the updates to to function.
Regards-
G.B.
The patch to install so that the final Vista update, April 2017, search does not hang is KB4015195. I am planning to leave the Windows Update enabled so I don't get the nag boxes saying it is disabled and if I remember XP did get an update a few months later for a serious vulnerability.