Zuhl3156
I'm already on SP1 and I am at the end of my rope for the day. Updated to IE11 which did absolutely nothing except change my email settings for some reason. I got double emails from everyone and the view pane changed too. I'll plug it in and let it run all night and see what greets me in the morning. At least it isn't the power hog that this thing is. This idles at 130 kw and that other one only used 17 kw with a GTX-680. It's bad enough I have to run my AC all night long because of the ridiculous heat and humidity. I might as well give my air conditioner something to stare at during the night.

I just went through building a clean Win7 image at work...  What you're probably looking for is the "Windows 7 Convenience Update"...  Have to install this first - https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3020369 and then install this - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3125574
 

funny seems to me all that cant update win 7 all started after 10  notice how they made 7 miserable to install  [between this and what they did to screw usb installs  in skylake ]  I assume all part of strong arming you over to 10 
 
I do find that if the down loads don't take off   is to just shut down and reboot   [not restart full all the way off ]    one thing I wonder if that slipstreaming  of the updates also include all the updates you may not want   like all the GWX and telemary  ??  [see with that you cant wed out or screen them  and installed that you cant individually uninstall a update it installed ] hint, hint ..     then you think 95% of the updates are for when your online / internet usage stuff   [to help prevent a attacker from executing ]  Microsoft did a few things to help make you think you better upgrade to 10   like a lot find  as you  '' tried to get those earlier and I got one but couldn't get the other. I am getting ready to plug the "other" back in and let it search its little heart out for updates all night long '' 
and don't forget theres maybe 250 updates  at a gillion  mb  worth of searching and downloading ??   I'm sure it takes more the 10 min to collect them up 
 , then Microsoft feels you not using 10 the greatest OS ever , so ???

@Zuhl, just curious, what model number Classy did you get? 

Ok, I was reading through this thread and for some reason, I thought you were getting a 4998-KR. I have two of them and can attest they are good OC-ers. On air I can get 1506 somewhat stable (works in games, not on Heaven or FireStrike), 1490 is very stable.
 
I bought them just before the 1080 went on sale (emotional purchase due to stress - best reason to spend money, right?). However, thanks to EVGA's wonderful step-up program, I am now waiting on two 1080s whenever they have stock available, which might be a while. 
 
Sorry for the frustration you are experiencing. Hope you get some resolution soon.

If you offered to give me a 980ti, I wouldn't care what insult you sent my way. 
 
 

I agree with you on that one. I don't like the small form factor of those cards. I know they have their uses but aesthetically, they look "cheap".
 
I am curious why you are sort of cross-shopping a 980ti and a 1060? 
 

Ok, that makes sense. Yes, I think NVidia realized that 1060 SLI would outperform a single 1080 for $200 less, so they nixed it. 
 
Hijacking is fun if you can get away with it. So far you are winning. 

Sounds good, good luck with the new case.

No problems installing updates on this one yesterday. Most were for Office. My laptop had little problems at all after a fresh install of Windows 7 SP1. IDK what it wrong with this 'other' thing. Maybe I'll try it again tonight or not. It would be nice if I could just suck the updates off of this PC by networking them together. Same Z97 chipset. Maybe I can copy my System Image and install it on that thing and re-activate it using the right software key. The only difference is the internet drivers. This one is Killer and the other one is Realtek. No other difference.

I'm letting it run again. Maybe all night too. Linux is sounding better every day.

Zuhl3156
It ran all night long and not a single update. IDK what to do now. I restarted the Service several times as recommended by others. I restarted my PC as recommended by others. I shut down and restarted to no avail. Update Tuesday has come and gone. MS servers should at least be clear enought to give me a few updates, no? The last time I tried LINUX I couldn't even install my video drivers. I might have to start a thread in General Software soon. There are too many updates for me to be poking around their download catalogue and installing them one by one. When I start this PC or any of my other Windows 7 PCs they start checking for Updates as soon as the Windows Update Service starts. This one just sits there like it doesn't know what to do and I have to start it manually. I haven't done much except install AVG, Steam, Origin, Uplay and Windows Live Mail. Maybe I should just reinstall it again or do a Repair Install?
 
Oh yea, before I forget, I got my Auto-Notify that a 4998-KR was available at 9:25 pm EDT last night but it is gone this morning. Then I looked at NewEgg and they have one cheaper and more reasonable shipping too.

All / most flavors of LINUX
 
Linux Mint check this one out
 
Nice find on the egg

June 2016 update MS Win 7 SP1 rollup  LINK

This should help - An unlikely combination of two Windows updates can reduce scan times from hours to minutes
InfoWorld | Apr 19, 2016

 
If you're experiencing Windows 7 update scans measured in hours -- if not days -- as I described last week, a newly discovered trick may reduce scan times to minutes. It's an unlikely combination of two updates that has worked wonders on my Win7 PCs. Try it and see how it works on yours.
 
 
LINK
 
 
 excerpt:
 
KB 3138612, you may recall, is the March "Windows Update Client for Windows 7" --  exactly the kind of patch you'd expect to solve the Win7 update slowdown.
KB 3145739, on the other hand, is this month's "security update for Windows Graphics Component" -- otherwise known as MS 16-039, the security patch that (once again) fixes the way Windows handles fonts inside the kernel.
I know that sounds like combining beer and cement to make a cheesecake, but there you have it. KB 3138612 installs a new program to handle Windows Updates; KB 3145739 has a new Windows kernel. Either patch installed by itself leads to hours and hours of waiting for Windows 7 update. Installing both patches together brings wait times (on the systems I've checked, anyway) back to sane levels.
 
 
Even with the latest Windows Update client, applying updates remains glacially slow 
InfoWorld | Apr 13, 2016

LINK
 
 
Last one
Windows 7 update scans taking forever? KB 3153199 may solve the problem  
InfoWorld | May 12, 2016
LINK

https://support.microsoft...-update-troubleshooter
 
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/971058
 
Edit: Try Microsoft fix it too. After all that "mess", I would prefer a clean reinstall of Win 7.

 
From my post # 86
 
Windows 7 update scans taking forever? KB 3153199 may solve the problem  
InfoWorld | May 12, 2016
LINK
 
excerpt:
 
While KB 3153199 only updates the win32k.sys file (and does not supersede KB 3145739 but DOES supersede KB 3139852), I will manually download & install the KB3153199 security fix on my Win7 machines to resolve the very long WU scan problem.
 
It's easy to check whether you have KB 3153199 installed: Click Start > Control Panel > System and Security > View installed updates. Click on Name to sort all the little hummers by name. Look under the heading Microsoft Windows for "Security Update for Microsoft Windows (KB3153199)." If it's there, you're already in the fast track and your update scans should take minutes instead of days.
If it isn't there, you can download and install the individual patch by using IE (or Edge) to go to the 32-bit download page or 64-bit download page.