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For a few days now, my computer has been needing updates and I would shut down in order to complete them as usual. Although after a short time after restarting, my computer would need more updates. Being the same amount of updates, 5. I checked the update history and there are none listed as failed. What I do see though is that some listings are identical for the past few days.

I recently installed a new graphics card and power supply. Although if I remember correctly I did install the 5 updates a couple of times before putting the new parts in. An issue does seem to occur though with the drivers of my graphics card needing to be re-installed sometimes when my computer is rebooted.

Any help with this issue is much appreciated! I've been trying to sort it out for a few days now and I've seem to reduce the amount of times my graphics cards drivers need re-installed. Although my last reboot for updates a short time ago proved to me that the problem is still there.
 
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drtweak

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Try this.

We can purge all existing windows updates and reset it.

Click on start - All programs - Accessories - right click on Command Prompt and Run as Administrator

then type in net stop wuauserv

It should stop the service. Do no close the window

now go and delete

c:\windows\SoftwareDistribution

Now go back to the Command prompt and type in

net start wuauserv

then close everything. Then click on start - all programs - then Windows update at the top. if not there go to Control Panel and then Windows update. Do a manual update. It may take a while to update since all update history is deleted.
 
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Doesn't seem to have worked. I wiped all the updates and when I went to update, there were only 8 important updates needed. I installed them, 5 of them being the updates that are being reinstalled nonstop. Once I updated them and rebooted my pc, I installed optional updates for my mouse and monitor. Once I rebooted again, the 5 updates were asking to be installed once more. The 5 updates being installed non stop are:

Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5, 4.5.1 and 4.5.2 on Windows 7, Vista, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2 x64 (KB3023224)
Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5, 4.5.1 and 4.5.2 on Windows 7, Vista, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2 x64 (KB3035490)
Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5, 4.5.1 and 4.5.2 on Windows 7, Vista, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2 x64 (KB3037581)
Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5, 4.5.1 and 4.5.2 on Windows 7, Vista, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2 x64 (KB3074230)
Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5, 4.5.1 and 4.5.2 on Windows 7, Vista, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2 x64 (KB3074550)


According to the windows update page, they were published 5/12/2015, I've failed to realize I've installed them a number of times since then. Meanwhile, it seems as though my hard drive space is being eaten up.
 
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jsmithepa

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Once you get everything worked out, may I suggest you consider the non-popular method of Manual Updates only. I am not pontificating, if disagree, never mind.

The Manual Update school of thought is, no software is bug-free, the updates may not be BETTER than what you had before. This is the school of, your system maybe behind, but is working perfectly. So once in a while when you have time to kill, (1)Save a Checkpoint so you can Go-Back, then (2)Perform your manual updates. Anything wrong, well first you know what caused it, and you are able to Go-Back and wait for the next "stable" release.

YMMV.
 
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