Windows 10: Windows Update versus Windows Search

I can see a lot of messages from Windows 10 users complaining about problems when running the update. I am one of them. What happens is that it seems to be stuck somewhere and the process takes a great amount of time. Not a problem as soon you "could" keep using your system. The "could" is the problem since your system goes unresponsive and if you look at the running process you will see almost 100% disk usage. I could also see that the Search Index runs in parallel and that takes almost all the disk access, keeping the update itself above 20 % of disk usage. If you try to kill the Search proc

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HyperSLI (Enabling SLI on non-sli motherboards)

To turn off windows updates in windows 7 follow these steps:

Click the start button, in the search box type in 'windows updates', click on 'windows update'
in the search results list, in the left side of the windows update window click 'change settings'
then in the option bar select 'Never check for updates'.

 

FIXED!! Windows 7 sp1 never ends searching for updates

need KB4048970 if using Vista - that's the latest win32k.sys patch. while it's listed for Windows Server 2008 only, it should also install & work under Vista SP2 as I've tested myself on an old Vista machine.

for Win7 SP1, KB3172605 or better to speed up Windows Update searches as noted here:
Search for Windows Updates takes forever? - A possible solution

 

FIXED!! Windows 7 sp1 never ends searching for updates

Pros:

• No need for a script, easy to apply manually
  
• Much smaller download, seems that KB3020369 is not required, only SP1 is needed

Cons:

• Windows Update Client downloaded by the script is newer (June 2016 version is included in KB3172605 instead of March 2016)
• You will still need to download/install hundreds of updates afterwards, most of them are already included in KB3125574 and installed by the script