Dear List Have run into issues where win7 does not want to update, it just hangs (for days even) on CHECKING FOR UPDATES on a manual and never pulls down updates automatically. Sometimes resetting the windows update components helps https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/971058/how-do-i-reset-windows-update-components Sometimes it doesn't, with a recalcitrant machine that I was just testing with this next suggestion worked for me so passing along. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-update/windows-7-update-problems-read-this-first/28147a5f-b0b0-480b-bed9-834a2da7a375 R