I recently bought two cheap laptops off Ebay and did a clean install of windows 7 Ultimate service pack one on both of them.
I ran into a big problem windows would not update at all just kept searching for updates forever.
Ended up researching solutions , among the many proposed i finally stumbled across two separate posts which fixed it for me , so to save you time this is the solution if you have the same problem
Manually install the update client kb3083710 first and then do the same with KB3102810
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3083710
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/3102810
There are over 200 updates on service pack 1 so i would recommend you install 50 per time to avoid memory issues on older machines starting with the security updates,
Hope this helps someone
I ran into a big problem windows would not update at all just kept searching for updates forever.
Ended up researching solutions , among the many proposed i finally stumbled across two separate posts which fixed it for me , so to save you time this is the solution if you have the same problem
Manually install the update client kb3083710 first and then do the same with KB3102810
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3083710
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/3102810
There are over 200 updates on service pack 1 so i would recommend you install 50 per time to avoid memory issues on older machines starting with the security updates,
Hope this helps someone