How to fix Windows update after refresh?

ENVY dv7, Windows 8. After refreshing Windows, Windows update is stuck at 0%

Hi Diaz418198,
Thank you for visiting the HP Support Forums and Welcome. I have read your thread on your HP ENVY dv7 Notebook and getting a screen on startup at 0%. Try performing a hard reset. When performing a hard reset please note remove any and all USB devices, and remove memory cards from the card reader slot. Disconnect all non-essential devices. If that does not help try to turn on the computer you start to press F11 repeatedly till the menu opens. You can do a system restore.
Hope this is helpful.
Thanks.
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How to block Windows update services?

We have a need to prevent windows update traffic to flow thru our network on certain dates. Basically this type of traffic will clog our mpls bandwidth preventing other type of traffic to flow. We are using up to some part QoS on out routers but it not working all the time. Eg, we put in ip address of one windows update server but updates are pulled of the other, then you enter second ip and updates are coming from third, etc.
I would like to explore other, a bit more controllable options utilizing Cisco's technology: ASA 8.4, IronPort WSA.
In summary, to create a traffic policy, not specific to IP addresses, that will kick in at certain date/time, be on for certain period of time and turned off after (automatically).
Any ideas, suggestions how to tackle this issues would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,.

In WSA, go to Web Security Manager/Define Custom Time ranges, and create a time range, call it "Workday", set it for the time you want to block.
Create a new Access Policy, set the identies to All Users, click Advanced at the bottom.
Set the time range to the Workday time range.
Set the user agent to the Microsof Windows Updates (Its under Common User Agents/Others)
In the Protocols section of the policy, set it for "Define custom settings", and tell it to http, ftp, etc.
There are other ways to do it, creating an Identity for example, and then creating a policy for that, but this should work...

Can I still uninstall any windows updates after clean up the winsxs folder by dism on Win2008 R2 SP1?

Hi,
Just a general question about Dism, does the cmd below only focus on serivce pack clearn up or I wont able to uninstall any windows updates at all after the clean up?
dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded
Regards
Anders

Hi,
The service pack cannot be uninstalled after this command is completed.
Clean Up the WinSxS Folder
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn251565.aspx
How to reclaim space after applying Windows 7/2008 R2 Service Pack 1
http://blogs.technet.com/b/joscon/archive/2011/02/15/how-to-reclaim-space-after-applying-service-pack-1.aspx
Hope this helps.

Establishing Windows update after OS crash & recovery

Hello: After running a recovery of Windows XP professional and updating it to SP3, I am unable to establish contact Windows Update to download remaining fixes. Ran MS "Fixit" App, but no luck. Tried to upgrade MS Explorer to 8 from 6 and no luck.
Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated.

Please post windowsupdate.log file.
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How to fix Software Update Problem?

I was do some update includes new 10.5.1, iTunes, QuickTime, and many more, but today I test to check new update I got blank list and I was try to do via Terminal and got this message
Software Update Tool
Copyright 2002-2007 Apple
XML parser error:
Encountered unexpected EOF
Old-style plist parser error:
Malformed data byte group at line 1; invalid hex
What's going on? and How to fix it my Leopard Software Update Problem

(1) Download the Windows Installer CleanUp utility installer file (msicuu2.exe) from the following Major Geeks page (use one of the links under the "DOWNLOAD LOCATIONS" thingy on the Major Geeks page):
http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4459
(2) Doubleclick the msicuu2.exe file and follow the prompts to install the Windows Installer CleanUp utility. (If you're on a Windows Vista or Windows 7 system and you get a Code 800A0046 error message when doubleclicking the msicuu2.exe file, try instead right-clicking on the msicuu2.exe file and selecting "Run as administrator".)
(3) In your Start menu click All Programs and then click Windows Install Clean Up. The Windows Installer CleanUp utility window appears, listing software that is currently installed on your computer.
(4) In the list of programs that appears in CleanUp, select any Apple Software Update entries and click "Remove", as per the following screenshot:
(5) Quit out of CleanUp, restart the PC and try another iTunes install using an iTunesSetup.exe (or iTunes64Setup.exe) downloaded from the Apple Website:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Does it go through properly this time?

How to throttle Windows Updates in BITS 4.0

Hi,
We are trying to solve a problem related to limiting the "Windows Update" traffic between Windows Clients and Internet Windows Update servers:
We have a WSUS infra setup like this:
Master server which is used for for approving patches, and managing computer groups. We don't store patches on that server, and clients are configured to download patches from the internet.
We have around 20 sites all sites are pointing "Intranet Update Server" to our master server.
The issue we are having is that in some cases, when we do a patch approval cycle, some remote sites with many users and insufficient internet bandwidth get lousy internet access performance.
We have identified the cause of this issue to be the large amounts of data that need to be downloaded by Windows Update.
The solution we are looking for is a way to limit Windows Update Traffic, so my mind jumped immediately to BITS.
I dug around the BITS features, and found the Peer Caching feature.
However as I read in Technet, BITS 3.0 has some peer caching capabilities.
With BITS 4.0 this has been removed, and the only caching available is via BranchCache.
I've read this thread(link), and
the OP is almost in the same situation as me, only he was trying to setup a branchcache server, and the clients would make use of that feature, when downloading from his internal WSUS.
So what are my options in terms of improving BITS bandwidth usage? Limit BITS download traffic during daytime hours?
p.s. Before someone says "Why don't you just setup a replica servers in each branch?" - we have no resources for this, and this doesn't play nice with many of our roaming users that go from location to location. Then we'll be moving our bandwidth
problem from the Internet lines to the MPLS/Leased lines - which are far more costly.
thank you,
ionut

I dug around the BITS features, and found the Peer Caching feature.
However as I read in Technet, BITS 3.0 has some peer caching capabilities.
With BITS 4.0 this has been removed, and the only caching available is via BranchCache.
BranchCache is not an appropriate solution for your scenario, as it requires a WS2008R2 or later server to act as the server-based cache.
However, do not be confused by the fact that BranchCache and Peer Caching are enabled in the same way on a client system. PeerCaching is an appropriate solution for these sites.
So what are my options in terms of improving BITS bandwidth usage?
The starting place is to limit the background throughput utilization available to BITS. Almost certainly you're saturating the Internet link because each client is evaluating "available bandwidth" at the NIC, which even on a busy network would
still be 10+mbit/sec for each system.
The policies needed for this purpose are documented in the WSUS Technical Reference Guide:
Improve WSUS Download Performance with BITS. As described in the section "BITS bandwidth limitations", you'll need to set the policy "Limit the maximum network bandwidth for BITS background transfers".
But also in that section is the guidance on how to implement PeerCaching, which if all of your systems are BITS 3.0 capable, would be the best solution. In that case only *one* system downloads from Microsoft (it'll be the first one to detect the availability
of a new update, so you cannot predict or control this action), and the rest will get the needed files via LAN connections. Of course, you'll still want to limit the bandwidth utilization on the Internet link, and it will still need to be configured for ALL systems,
but it will be exponentially less utilization with PeerCaching than with everybody-for-themselves.
Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCSA, MCITP:EA, MCDBA
SolarWinds Head Geek
Microsoft MVP - Software Packaging, Deployment & Servicing (2005-2014)
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