Microsoft updates for windows 7

Click Start and Control Panel/ Windows updates

Use the link Click here for details and accept the agreement terms on the bottom.

Hi ThrashZrone

My default browser is already IE 11 and it is NOT turned off in Windows Features.  I have done a few reboots including a clean boot but all without resolving the problem.  I don't have the full Office suite, only Word, Excel and Access (all 2000 version).

Although the Sevenforum tutorial is quite useful, it seems that the screenshot contents differ from those on my system.

The above says Updates NEVER installed but I have been installing these updates for years, and I am able to see them when viewing Update History.  Also it says I receive updates "For Windows only" whereas previous to my unticking the boxes I had "For Windows and other products from Microsoft Update".  Clicking on "Find out more" just goes round in circles because it takes me to http://www.update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/thanks.aspx?ln=en&&thankspage=5 which "goes nowhere?".

As you can see, this screen doesn't show the lines "Microsoft Update" or "Software notifications".

As I have disabled System Restore I cannot go that route, but as I understand it SR gathers important system information which it can then use to get the system back to a historical (working) position.  It would seem therefore that the system information must exist somewhere that SR can go to collect it.  This leads me to wonder if there is any means of recapturing from a backup, (I use Macrium Reflect) such of the information that would be necessary to get Windows/Microsoft Update working as it used to do.  Does this make sense, and if so do you, or anyone else reading this, know how to do such a thing?

Regards

Peternosmas

Hi Peter,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

You may want to refer to the following thread link that can help you get the option you are looking for.

Please refer to: Windows Update checkbox does not show up anymore

Hope this information is helpful. Please feel free to reply in case you face any other issues with Windows in future.

Hi Niranjan

Thank you for your suggestion, but I am afraid nothing in that link has helped.  I have disabled System Restore so cannot go that route, 

The "Find out more" link on Control Panel > Windows Update takes me to the (diverted) page given in my original post which has no other links, (perhaps you might click to view what I am seeing) and certainly doesn't show "Get updates for other Microsoft products" so is a complete "dead-end". 

I went through the steps given in the OP's link to the Sevenforums pages and ran the update for WUA to install the latest version which showed as 7.6.7601.19161 which, strangely, appears to be later than the stated version 7.6.7600.256.

In Sevenforums, post no 8 shows what is supposed to be "the solution" but as the images are in a foreign language I just don't understand.  I have followed the registry edit steps in post 9 but when I get to General there isn't any "ShownOptIn" to be modified.  If I go to  an Office Component e.g. Word and click on "Office on the Web" in the Help menu I get taken to a page which has in English and six foreign languages the message "Sorry the page you're looking for can't be found.  You may have clicked and old link or the page may have moved."

Any other ideas please?

The SevenForums tutorial is here for the record

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2797-windows-update-settings-change.html

You might change your default browser to ie11 and restart your machine and try again if you haven't already

You could also try clean boot

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/929135

Do you have M$ Office ?