Windows 7 CheckSUR unavailable manifest files

Try to install KB4343900 again as in message #149. You can skip number 1 & 2.
If it fails, attach the zipped cbs.log to your next reply.
 
FRST Registry Search
  1. Click the Start button and choose Control Panel.
  2. In the upper right corner ensure the View by: is set to Category.
  3. Select the Programs group.
  4. Click the Turn Windows features on or off link. This will bring up the Server Manager dialog.
    Note: This loads your components hive which is what we want. Please keep this dialog open while you perform the remaining steps. You can minimize it if you wish but keep it open.
  5. Right-click on the file FRST64.exe and choose Run as administrator.
  6. Copy and paste ebdf901b671 into the Search box and click the Search Registry button.
  7. When the scan is complete, a message will display that 'SearchReg.txt' is saved in the same folder FRST was started from. Notepad will open this file also. Close Notepad and attach the file 'SearchReg.txt' to your next reply.
  8. You may close any remaining open windows now.
 
Retrieve Software Hive
1. Navigate to C:\Windows\System32\Config and locate the SOFTWARE file.
2. Please copy this file to your desktop.
Note: If you receive an error that this file is in-use, try Option#2 below.
3. Right-click on this file on your desktop and select Send To...Compressed (zipped) folder. This will create a file named SOFTWARE.ZIP on your desktop.
4. Upload the zip file (SOFTWARE.zip) to your favourite file sharing website (it will be too big to upload here). Examples of services to upload to are FileDropper or One Drive or SendSpace.
5. Note: Send the downloadlink in a private message as the SOFTWARE hive contains sensitive information!

Option#2 (only if you are unable to follow the previous instructions)

  • Please download the Freeware RegBak from here: Acelogix Software - Download products
    You will find it at the bottom of the page that the link brings you to.
  • Go ahead and install this program and accept all the defaults. After the last install screen the program should open.
  • Click the New Backup button. Accept the defaults and simply click Start.
  • When it says Finished successfully, click the Close button.
  • This will bring you back to the main screen of the program. You will see one entry in this list with the date that you did it. Right-click on this line-item and select Explore Backup...
  • This will bring you into the folder where the backup was made. You should see a Users folder and a Windows folder along with a couple other files. Double-click on the Windows folder to open it. Then open the System32 folder and then config folder. You should see around 6 files in here, one of which is named SOFTWARE.
  • Copy the SOFTWARE file to your Desktop. If the SOFTWARE file does not exist, please fetch it instead from C:\Windows\System32\config\SOFTWARE.
  • Now right-click on the SOFTWARE file that is on your desktop and select Send to > Compressed (zipped) folder.
  • Then please upload the zip file (SOFTWARE.zip) to your favourite file sharing website (it will be too big to upload here). Examples of services to upload to are FileDropper or One Drive or SendSpace.
  • Note: Send the downloadlink in a private message as the SOFTWARE hive contains sensitive information!
  • You can close any open windows you have as well as the RegBak program now.
 
Uninstall Update with DISM
  1. Download http://download.windowsupdate.com/c..._8acbe17ab3a57e50df6c84a4940f2933fa790468.msu .
  2. Copy the MSU file to a convenient location (such as C:\temp).
  3. Click the Start button and in the search box, type Command Prompt
  4. When you see Command Prompt on the list, right-click on it and select Run as administrator.
  5. When command prompt opens, copy and paste the following commands into it, press enter after each.

    cd C:\temp
    expand –F:* c:\temp\windows6.1-kb4343900-x64_8acbe17ab3a57e50df6c84a4940f2933fa790468.msu c:\temp\
    dism /online /remove-package /packagepath:c:\temp\windows6.1-kb4343900-x64
  6. On completion, you should receive the message:
    The operation completed successfully.
    Restart Windows to complete this operation. <---You may not get this line.
    Do you want to restart the computer now (Y/N)? <---You may not get this line.
 
First command Ok; second command error message as below:

Expanding Files Complete ...
6 files total.
c:\TEMP>dism /online /remove-package /packagepath:c:\temp\windows6.1-kb4343900-x
64
Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 6.1.7600.16385
Image Version: 6.1.7601.18489
An error occurred trying to open - c:\temp\windows6.1-kb4343900-x64 Error: 0x800
70003
Error: 3
The system cannot find the path specified.
The DISM log file can be found at C:\Windows\Logs\DISM\dism.log

c:\TEMP>

What next?
 
The second command is expand ..., not dism ...
Did you perform the expand command ?
 
Hello
I did the expand command; your two lines in #167:
expand –F:* c:\temp\windows6.1-kb4343900-x64_8acbe17ab3a57e50df6c84a4940f2933fa790468.msu c:\temp\

That runs as follows:
------------------------------
c:\TEMP>expand -F:* c:\temp\windows6.1-kb4343900-x64_8acbe17ab3a57e50df6c84a4940
f2933fa790468.msu c:\temp\
Microsoft (R) File Expansion Utility Version 6.1.7600.16385
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Can't open input file: ûf:*.

Adding c:\temp\WSUSSCAN.cab to Extraction Queue
Adding c:\temp\Windows6.1-KB4343900-x64.cab to Extraction Queue
Adding c:\temp\PkgInstallOrder.txt to Extraction Queue
Adding c:\temp\PCIClearStaleCache.exe to Extraction Queue
Adding c:\temp\Windows6.1-KB4343900-x64-pkgProperties.txt to Extraction Queue
Adding c:\temp\Windows6.1-KB4343900-x64.xml to Extraction Queue

Expanding Files ....

Expanding Files Complete ...
6 files total.
------------------------------------
Then I run the second DISM command:

---------------------------------
c:\TEMP>dism /online /remove-package /packagepath:c:\temp\windows6.1-kb4343900-x
64

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 6.1.7600.16385

Image Version: 6.1.7601.18489

An error occurred trying to open - c:\temp\windows6.1-kb4343900-x64 Error: 0x800
70003

Error: 3

The system cannot find the path specified.

The DISM log file can be found at C:\Windows\Logs\DISM\dism.log

c:\TEMP>
------------------------------

So I don't know what you mean by the second command being EXPAND and not DISM.
 
Ah, now I see the problem. The dism command is missing the extension. Use the command below.
dism /online /remove-package /packagepath:c:\temp\windows6.1-kb4343900-x64.cab
 
Of course - I should have seen that. The command output is as follows:
--------------------------
c:\TEMP>dism /online /remove-package /packagepath:c:\temp\windows6.1-kb4343900-x
64.cab
Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 6.1.7600.16385
Image Version: 6.1.7601.18489
Processing 1 of 1 - Removing package Package_for_RollupFix~31bf3856ad364e35~amd6
4~~7601.24214.1.5
[==========================100.0%==========================]
The operation completed successfully.
Restart Windows to complete this operation.
Do you want to restart the computer now (Y/N)? N
c:\TEMP>ITE
'ITE' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
c:\TEMP>
------------------------------------

Don't know where the last command ITE came from, but I assume it's just butter fingers.
I'm going to restart now.
 
I have restarted and checked for updates. During the restart the messages read 'configuring updates'.

But on checking for updates I am now getting 'Windows could not search for new updates'.
Looking at the update history, the last update was on 2 Dec 2020.
 
Check the setting at Control Panel - Windows Update - Change settings.
Select Download updates but let me choose whether to install them.
Click OK.
 
Done the clean boot; everything disabled except for MS services.
Windows update check now runs for ever, never finds any updates.
I've rebooted twice - same result.
 
Keep the machine on while it searches for updates. This might take a day.
You can use the machine normally in the meantime but do not restart.
 
Thanks - I eventually got a list of 22 important updates, including 8 for Win 7. I picked the first 4 of these (all small) and they updated successfully, after two restarts. I now have 17 important updates:
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I then tried the first Win 7 above (KB4516065), but it failed after 10 minutes.
Can you suggest an order for trying these, one at a time?
How about I just uninstall VS 2010 and 2012, and SQL Server 2005? Presumably the updates won't appear if the programs are no longer installed.
 
How about I just uninstall VS 2010 and 2012, and SQL Server 2005?
Click to expand...
Go ahead although we tried that earlier if I remember correctly.
 
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