Have you noticed generally sluggish performance from your Windows PC, or maybe when accessing files on a Windows server ??
I've recently had to deal with a friend's Win7 laptop which became painfully slow, and then accessing my own Windows server (server 2003) over the network became very sluggish. In both cases it seems the issue was that Windows update was not working correctly - the update process was taking up a large amount of background resource, but failed to install any updates.
Research on the web in both cases suggested that Windows update was broken by (you guessed) a Windows update!
For the Win7 laptop, downloading manually and installing a July 2016 roll up update got update working again. For my server, I manually downloaded a bundle of updates that kept failing - then ran these. Hey presto - update now working again. One of the articles I researched suggested the Server 2003 issues may also impact WinXP.
Both machines are now much more responsive. I'm posting this because the cause is not at all obvious - maybe this will help somebody else.
I've recently had to deal with a friend's Win7 laptop which became painfully slow, and then accessing my own Windows server (server 2003) over the network became very sluggish. In both cases it seems the issue was that Windows update was not working correctly - the update process was taking up a large amount of background resource, but failed to install any updates.
Research on the web in both cases suggested that Windows update was broken by (you guessed) a Windows update!
For the Win7 laptop, downloading manually and installing a July 2016 roll up update got update working again. For my server, I manually downloaded a bundle of updates that kept failing - then ran these. Hey presto - update now working again. One of the articles I researched suggested the Server 2003 issues may also impact WinXP.
Both machines are now much more responsive. I'm posting this because the cause is not at all obvious - maybe this will help somebody else.
