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I am trying to help my mate with his dell D630 laptop. its got windows 7 home premium installed on it
but its never been updated, and when you try to run windows update it just hangs there.
I have run windows update trouble shooter and it said problems installing recent updates.
then I run sfc /scannow and that said no issues found, and when trying to install dell system detect and
dell support assist unable to install system needs reformat.
I will have to down load a copy of windows 7 home premium we do not have a disc with it on.
where can I get the instructions from for do a system reformat and installing dell support assist.
ejn63
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July 27th, 2017 05:00
You may not need to reinstall. If it has never had updates, it need to have SP1 installed first:
support.microsoft.com/.../windows-7-install-service-pack-1-sp1
Then install the post-SP1 rollup update:
support.microsoft.com/.../convenience-rollup-update-for-windows-7-sp1-and-windows-server-2008-r2
Both of these can be downloaded and installed offline. They're large, but can be transferred to a flash drive for installation on the system.
After that, Windows Update will work again (until support for 7 ends in 2020).
bluesriff
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July 27th, 2017 08:00
its got the service pack installed but i will have to get some one else to install the sp1 rollup
i dont want to make a mistake, but thanks for reply