Exactly. I've seen this problem on Windows 7 as far back as 2012. Any machine that is not constantly receiving updates will run into this issue sooner or later.

Exactly. I've seen this problem on Windows 7 as far back as 2012. Any machine that is not constantly receiving updates will run into this issue sooner or later. On weaker machines, the update process will actually eat all the machine's memory and likely never finish. Also, the manual update which fixes this problem changes every few months. At this point I feel that Microsoft just wants to discourage people from using Windows 7.