Hi I am running Win 7 and have not received any updates,(security or otherwise since Dec 2017)! I believe that MS has stopped updating Win 7 itself but is still supposed to be offering security updates and fixes? When I try to manually check for updates it says cannot check as update service is not active. I have checked the service and it is definitely enabled. Can anyone advise me on this problem? Thanks Chris
Stop the Windows Update service Delete contents of C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution Start Windows Update service Check again for updates
Thanks Chairboy Your fix worked, problem solved. I did note that before, there were hundreds of updates, following the fix, I installed all the updates available but there are only about a dozen or so in total. I hope they include all the previous ones. Anyway thanks again Chris
