[SOLVED] Partial memory leak and not finding updates

[Hyposped]

Hello!

First off thank you to everyone who will take the time to look and help me through this :)


So, I recently had the need to change the HDD (old one went kaput) on my laptop (Acer aspire TimelineX 3820T) and I reinstalled Windows 7 Home premium on the new one to factory condition using the recovery disks I had.

No troubles so far, had to deal with removing useless junk before anything else, installed Avast antivirus and firefox and then went to connect to the internet to start updating.
I update to Service Pack 1 and here problems start popping up...

For starters windows update presented a crippling memory leak whenever it went to scan for new updates, it went every time to occupy over 3GB of RAM out of 4 I have. Not only that, but no updates were ever actually displayed, or they were displayed but installling them would just not work.
I tried a few things, from WindowsFixit routine (last version and an old one wich had an "aggressive mode"), the windows troubleshooting tool for windows update, updating the update manager (hihihi :lolg:) and manually running the update kb3050265 which was supposed to address this problem to no avail.

I came upon this thread (hope it's ok to link it) where it's said that update KB3065987 can be used instead, so I went for a different approach.


In order to reduce eventual damage or conflicts from my meddling, I RESTORED Windows 7 to its base form (from windows restore) and reinstalled the SP1 from scratch.
Afterwards I directly applied the update KB3065987 and see how it went.

Result:
First automatic update search, a bit slow, no excessive memory leak, but NO UPDATE FOUND (yeah, right....:confused2: )
Second search: very big memory consumption (but better than before, so it did improve), but after one hour and half it was still stuck on looking for updates.... :banghead:

I didn't do anything else except running SCFix (below) and I am out of ideas :grin1:

Anyone that knows what is happening here?

I have no problem whatsover if I switch off automatic updates and simply don't run it, but well... :noidea:






SFCFix version 2.4.5.0 by niemiro.
Start time: 2015-08-21 16:01:39.344
Microsoft Windows 7 Service Pack 1 - amd64
Not using a script file.




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SFCFix version 2.4.5.0 by niemiro has completed.
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Finish time: 2015-08-21 16:03:20.057
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[zcomputerwiz]

Change the power profile to high performance (make sure the sleep time when plugged in is set to never) and allow it to check for updates overnight.
That amount of memory usage is not unusual (even though it does make the computer entirely unusable when running updates!), the checks for updates after all available updates have been applied should go much faster.

 

[Hyposped]

Hi zcomputerwiz, just an update to let you know that the laptop did not explode yet :r1:

It never occured to me to let it run through at maximum perfomance, I had always kept at balanced, so after the night check it found 200 updates (:r1:) and took around 5 hours to install them (makes me feel a bit stupid for not being patient enough XD ).

Now I'm leaving it going for a second round to see what's left.
Will keep you updated on how it goes, thank you again!

 

[zcomputerwiz]

Are your updates working properly?

 

[Hyposped]

Hi!
Sorry for the long delay, I have been away several days for work and couldn't come back to this before.

So yes, everything finally worked.
For a while the windows update service was sucking up to 500 MB of RAM only to check for updates (not even downloading or installing), but at some point it just went back to a more human consumption (some fix somewhere I guess).

As of now it seems to be working as it should, I will keep an eye on it for a while to make sure of it :)

Thank you very much for everything until now :grin1:

 

[zcomputerwiz]

Very good :thumbsup2:

I'll mark the thread solved. If you encounter any problems, please post back and I will continue to assist you.