Windows 10: Checking for updates taking ages

Win 10 machine. Got it yesterday, it was checking for updates fine last night. In this evening and I thought I'd do a manual check but it's been running as checking for updates about 15 mins now. Is this normal. There is no way to cancel the check and kick it back off acain

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Update taking ages

I'm not happy with the amount of time the 'Anniversary Update' has taken to install. Percentage count up and accompanying annoying spinning dots repeated four times over three hours. Had to reinstall this update due to a corrupt file in the previous one.



Pretty rubbish really.

The dots are still spinning by the way.

 

Windows phone

Windows preview for 8.1 update 1. in the update phone menu it just keeps saying checking for updates it dont seem to be doing anything its taking ages

 

Yes, it's normal. Well, it is for me at times. Usually when it runs that long it will eventually timeout with an error code. Speculation is that MS servers are busy or there are other network anomalies. I usually have to wait a few hours and then the updates run as you would expect. I often use Resource Manager to see if Windows Update (svchost - netsvcs) has any network activity.

 

My Windows 10 update got stuck this afternoon while downloading/installing, i did the following to reset Windows Update;

Open a CMD prompt with administrator privileges

Use the commands below to stop the update service:

Now got to 'C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution' and delete all files within this folder.

Now use the following commands to start the update service again;

Reboot your PC and search for new updates.

My Windows Update immediately found updates and installed them without any problem

 

You could download my file and run it as admin, it will do what is said above, just a little easier. *Nerd

 

Nice! I'm going to grab this aswell

 

I tried to download your little file but was refused for 'invalid user name or password?