As of May 10, that patch combination stopped working and Windows Update scans turned from tolerable to infuriating. In April, AskWoody poster EP discovered that the unlikely combination of two unrelated patches, KB 3138612 and KB 3145739 - a Windows Update patch paired with a graphics security patch - sped up the scans significantly. ![]() Microsoft has released a series of speed-up patches, but all of them come with significant baggage - if they even work. Fortunately, thanks to German language site wu., we now appear to have a simple solution. Your machine bogs down to the point where it’s unusable, and it may stay that way for the better part of a day. Instead, we’ve seen checks that take hours - sometimes many hours. ![]() Running “check for updates” in Win7 shouldn’t take more than a few minutes, even on a very slow line. ![]() I’ve been complaining about slow Windows 7 updates since April.
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