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Peasant

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My computer is running off Windows 7 Pro. I have no antivirus software and the only thing I have installed is Google chrome. I just installed Windows 7 OS.
 
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Peasant

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I'm not using Google DNS.
 
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HeyBirdDog

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After days of attempting solutions to a zero percent appearing on downloads on Windows Update (Win 7 Pro), the light came on in my brain. It is taking hours to accomplish a task that used to take minutes. What have I not done to accommodate this? Click Start; in the Search box type the word sleep. Change the "Put the computer to sleep" to "Never." Why? Because now your machine will have enough time to do the updates. (I used to leave it on overnight in update mode, but failed to realize it would quit in 30 minutes and never get the job done.) I hope this simple solution works for you. (Try not to hit yourself too hard on the forehead as you say "Duh." My bruise should subside any day now . . . )
 
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Quantino

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Hey, sorry for replying now after so much time, but i have the same problem now, just changed the DNS now to googles, do u know if u have to restart PC afterwards? To stop windows update from searching and begin a new search, or did u just leave it be? Thanks alot.
 
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Quantino

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Hey there :)

For 1½ hour its been "searching for updates" now... And that is after i changed to google DNS and restarted the PC....

Do u have any suggestions to me? My idea is to get it fully updated, and then upgrade to win10, but it seems impossible atm :)
 
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If you're running 7 now, do you have a copy of the original license key? If it's a brand-name laptop or desktop that came with 7 there should be a sticker somewhere on it with that key. As long as you have the key you can do a fresh install of the software (available from the link below, which you can copy onto a prepared 8GB flash drive). Until the free upgrade offer expires, valid 7 or 8.1 keys can be used to activate a new copy of 10. Make sure anything you don't want to lose is backed up first.

download link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/home

To prepare flash drive, the basic idea is format as NTFS and set "active" flag

You can do it at a command prompt (as administrator), typing "diakpart" to open a partition utility. "list disk" then brings up a listing of the drives with drive numbers. Enter "select drive x" where x is the number of the flash drive. The command "clean" erases everything on the drive, then "create partition primary" and "format fs=ntfs quick" format it (if the format command gives an error, you may need to "select partition 1" first). Finally just type "active" then you can exit the utility.

From that point, just copy the contents of the .iso downloaded above (not the .iso itself but the unpacked contents!). Windows 8 and above can open .iso files natively, for windows 7 this utility lets you open the file in a virtual CD drive (from which you copy on to the flash drive).

https://www.elby.ch/en/products/vcd.html

 
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Quantino

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Hey man, sorry for the late reply, i didnt have any USB-stick or DVD to burn windows on, but i had a windows 7 home premium original CD, which i used, and a original legit license key, and i tried to follow this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNoJiFK7_Uk

And after i finally got windows fully updated, i had no problem upgrading to win10, so everything is perfect now, thanks alot tho for the reply :)
 
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