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Lastly, I know what some of you are thinking: that you’ve already downloaded these updates and they wouldn’t install, thanks to the stand-alone installers getting stuck at the same point. There may seem like a daunting amount of information here, but really it just comes down to steps 4, 5, 8, and 9 – the rest is just me being very thorough for people with less troubleshooting experience. Now, on to the final steps of how I fixed this issue. Although I don’t believe this update requires a reboot, it would be smart to restart the computer if you’re prompted to. Also, although I don’t think this step was 100% necessary, it absolutely cannot hurt to download and update to the latest version of the Microsoft Update Client (KB2887535) (local download: 32-bit | 64-bit). I’m not mirroring this file locally as most pepole likely already have it).
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I link to the KB articles, and you should always visit the articles to see if there is a newer version than what I am posting, but because I know Microsoft loves to move things around on their website far too often, I’m hosting files locally as well.īEFORE YOU BEGIN (prerequisites?): Make sure the computer at least already have Service Pack 1 installed on your computer (to check this, hold the Windows Key and press PAUSE on your keyboard if you have SP1 installed, it will say Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 near the top of the window that pops up, if it just says Windows 7, you need to install SP1. NOTE: For the purpose of convenience, I’m uploading the Windows 7 x86 & 64-bit versions of each of the KB Patches I talk about in this article. I will save the exposition for the bottom of the post, the short version: Microsoft’s official fixes wouldn’t even work because the standalone installers had the same problem as Windows Update, and every other guide, manual fix, and 3rd party tool I attempted to use failed! This time, however, absolutely nothing I have tried before would fix it.
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I recently ran in to an issue I’ve seen at least a dozen times before.