{"id":11533,"date":"2016-09-06T07:54:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T11:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=11533"},"modified":"2016-11-22T06:00:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T11:00:26","slug":"a-windows-update-fix-for-windows-7-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/a-windows-update-fix-for-windows-7-users\/","title":{"rendered":"A Windows Update Fix (?) For Windows 7 Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>A Windows Update Fix (?) For Windows 7 Users<\/h1>\n<p>Windows Update always been a pain for Windows 7 users. It&#8217;s been a exercise in futility trying to fix it &#8211; we have published several possible fixes for the problem, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/another-way-to-fix-windows-update\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">including this one<\/span><\/a>. But nothing seems to work all the time for all users. We think it&#8217;s a bug in Windows 7 that Microsoft never successfully fixed.<\/p>\n<p>Good old Microsoft has issued another &#8220;fix&#8221; for those of you using Windows 7 and who are having problems with Windows Update. \u00a0This update was released in March 2016, but we just became aware of it. It&#8217;s not going to be released as a Windows Update for Windows 7, so you have to download and install it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>About this update<\/h3>\n<p>This update contains some improvements to Windows Update Client in Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, if you&#8217;re having problems with Windows Update and your using Windows 7, you should give this &#8220;fix&#8221; a try &#8211; it may work. Who knows? You&#8217;ll know once you try it. And hey, if it works for you, please leave a comment here. And it if doesn&#8217;t work, leave a comment here too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/kb\/3138612\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">You can download this Windows 7 Update Fix from this Microsoft page<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. Please note, you&#8217;ll need to know if \u00a0you&#8217;re using X86 (32 bit) Windows or X64 (64 bit) Windows. If you&#8217;re not sure, press Windows Key + R, type MSINFO32 in the Run box and press Enter &#8211; they system type will be listed right next to &#8220;System type&#8221; on the page that open when you open MSINFO32.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note to Windows 10 users: Don&#8217;t be tempted. There a reference to Windows 10 on that page, but it&#8217;s not what you think. \u00a0It&#8217;s for Windows Server and it requires a bunch of advanced commands which will boggle your mind. Leave it \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Windows Update Fix (?) For Windows 7 Users Windows Update always been a pain for Windows 7 users. It&#8217;s been a exercise in futility trying to fix it &#8211; we have published several possible fixes for the problem, including this one. But nothing seems to work all the time for all users. We think it&#8217;s a bug\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/a-windows-update-fix-for-windows-7-users\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11897,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11533\/revisions\/11897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}