That is what hasn't been mentioned in this thread. Around half of the Win7 systems I get asked to look at never actually pull updates because it's stuck checkin

That is what hasn't been mentioned in this thread. Around half of the Win7 systems I get asked to look at never actually pull updates because it's stuck checking forever. This is due to a WSUS client bug. Fix used to be to take the system offline and instal 3 hotfixes... not user friendly or obvious so it doesn't ever get done by end user. This wizard should fix it now: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows_7-update/fix-windows-7-update-stuck-on-checking-for-updates/ad6cfeef-232a-49b4-a57b-39978eea6630 https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows_7-u...