Windows 10: Patch Tuesday: Stuck on "Checking for Updates". Windows 10

I'm currently on v1809 17763.168 and on Patch Tuesday, I received these three notification emails

1. Security Update Releases. The following CVEs have undergone a major revision increment: * CVE-2018-0952 * CVE-2018-8650
2. Security Update Summary for Dec 11: This summary lists security updates released for December 11, 2018.
3. Security Advisory Notification: ADV990001 | Latest Servicing Stack Updates


Because of issues with setting up a new Lenovo laptop, I've only just checked for updates on this laptop. It's been stuck on "Checking for Updates" for over an hour. Ten minutes ago, I shut down this laptop - when I restarted and went to Settings it was still checking.


And it's still checking . . . .


I'd appreciate some help. Thanks.

:)

 

Does Patch Tuesday still exist

Hi Stephen,

Thank you for being a part of Windows 10.

Before we proceed, I need more information to help you better.

• Which Tuesdays patch you are referring to?
• Which patch you are referring to? Is it for Windows or phone?

I suggest you to refer to the Windows blog for the latest news and check if it helps.

Windows Experience Blog -

Hope the above information helps. Reply with necessary information and the result to help you further.

Thank you.

 

Windows Update - patch tuesday becomes generally patch gradually?

Once, the 2nd tuesday of the month was windows 'patch tuesday'.

But since windows 10 was released, MS made it clear that updates for that OS would be released gradually, from the 2nd tuesday onwards. The deployment of win10 used the update servers, and the moans and screams about the impact on every other update were
deafening: for that year, a typical 30 minute update for win 7 took about 3 hours, sometimes more. So after the free period elapsed, gradual patching of win 10 seemed a reasonable approach to de-congesting the update servers, since every update I have seen
seems to be a complete new release, not just 'patches'.

It seems that this gradualism approach is being applied to updates for windows 7 now. For the last few months, updates for 64bit windows 7 were available on patch tuesday, but the same updates for 32bit windows 7 were not released for at least 4 days after
that (I made a specific check on that date, no updates available, but several days later, there's 300Mb of them waiting). Thus, patch tuesday is becoming de-facto patch gradually

So the question is: is this gradual update of all OS now a distinct policy by MS? Happening several times in a row does suggest that. As one popular TV drama has it, "there's no such thing as coincidence". And knowing this one can adjust the admin cycle
on affected Pc's.

 

August Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 10

Microsoft has released Patch Tuesday updates to all of their products.

Windows 10 1803

KB4343909 is released for version 1803. The build number is 17134.228 after the update.

• 32 bit download
• 64 bit download

Windows 10 1709

KB4343897 is released for version 1709. The build number is 16299.611 after the update.

32 bit download

64 bit download

More details:

https://www.yourwindowsguide.com/2018/08/august-patch-tuesday-updates-now-available.html