Follow Marcos' advice. Just give a little time for Firefox to completely close out - 2 minutes is fine on an average modern computer - then...
Mister X., that looks like it would block the GWX process and prevent the upgrade from succeeding. It looks like the download folder still has to...
Excellent! Thanks for the link. The Disk Cleanup mentioned there might need to be run twice, the first run through sometimes leaves files. This is...
Great news! I contacted Chris Merriman at the Inquirer - he's running with it. It is currently the top story on the site!...
It looks like this is finally getting some traction, at least in the comments sections on some tech web sites. Fix this, MS!
topo, this seems to be safe, but not uncomplicated. The procedure that seems to work is The group policy fix is in post 15. the link to KB3050265...
That hard shut down thing is a drag. I've seen it multiple times. Wait until there's no HDD activity and it seems to turn out fine on the restart....
Insidious, isn't it? Sounds like you spent a huge chunk of time on this as well. I hope you were successful. Thanks for the update. Yes,...
Lots of updates to remove. Thanks for writing this script. ETA: Saying this again - thanks to everyone who is taking part in solving this problem....
Hopefully final update on this. The procedure described in post #43 appears to work and appears not to break anything else on Windows 7 Pro and...
It seems to have started in earnest around here on Aug 20th. I am now seeing it everywhere. Even on a lightning struck box that got hit yesterday....
Yes, same here, lots of SxS assemblies and the like. JR has a list of telemetry and other updates in post #3 of this thread. I'm taking out the...
Somewhat related: do not let Microsoft Level 2 Support take control of your computer to try to fix this issue. I did, as noted earlier. I didn't...
Quick update - found this on 8 more computers today. Two of three 7 Pro in one location, all 5 at another with 7 Pro, and on a Win 8.1 Home...
Yes, Subrobhandari, I think this is the case. I have installs of W7 32bit HP and an install of W7 64bit Pro Tech Net that this behavior is not...
Yes. When you click on the prompt for Disk Cleanup, it has a selection menu, and a button for Cleanup System Files. Clicking that reveals more...
Yes, went to the second stage both times. It removes most of the folder the first time, leaving I think the Sources folder. Reboot, second run...
I had to run Disk Cleanup twice. First time it got most of the files, reboot, then it got the rest of them. Taking ownership from the command line...
Except the GWX update was installed automatically if someone has AU set to recommended settings. It's only fair if someone reserves the Win10...
6 were 7 Pro 64 bit, one is Home Premium 32 bit if I recall correctly. I'll check this again when I can.
Not on the list, I just checked. It may make no difference whatsoever that I brought this to his attention, but at least I said something. If...
Appreciate the help! I'm so mad about this I've already contacted my representative in Congress, among others. Windows 7 is in extended support...
Ah ha! Maybe that's the key as to why this setting did not work previously. Need the KB first in order to set the policy. It was never installed...
Yes to all of this, plus the Theola.F/Mebroot plague. I'm still seeing infections occasionally even though it was supposedly fixed by deprecating...
JR, it appears to have worked - thank you very much! :) I now have 7 hidden updates. The "important" update - KB3075851 - showed up after...
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