It's KB4012497. With IE9 installed, it's also KB4012204. With Office 2003 or 2007 installed, add KB3178677 and KB3178682. With Office 2007 installed, add KB3178676 and KB3178683. With Office 2010 installed, add KB3178687 and KB3178690. See:
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Hi Be4stElectrjc / VFN:
My system was fully patched last month but the March 2017 Patch Tuesday updates were quite slow compared to previous months and required about 3 hours to run to completion. Keep in mind that I have an old 32-bit Vista SP2 machine with IE9 and the MS Office Compatibility Pack SP3 installed. I believe Volume Z's test bed is a 64-bit Vista SP2 virtual machine (VM) and he noted in
post # 527 that he doesn't have IE9 o
r MS Office installed. I still don't know the CPU speed of the host machine or the number of CPU cores and amount of RAM that Volume Z allocates to the VM but his results will probably be very different from mine.
I originally tried pre-installing the two speed up patches
KB4012497 (
MS17-018 Security Update for Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers and for Microsoft Graphics Component: March 14, 2017) and
KB4012583 (
part 1 of MS17-013 Security Update for Microsoft Graphics Component: March 14, 2017) recommended by Dalai at http://wu.krelay.de/en/, but after 3 hours my Windows Update was still stuck on "
Checking for updates..." so I decided to abort and and shut down my system before going to bed.
This morning I added
KB4012204 (
MS17-006 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 9 for Windows Vista: March 14, 2017) and tried another Windows Update. This time it ran to completion but required
3 hours 15 min (including
3 hours for "Checking for updates...") to finish. I was offered one Optional update for Silverlight (which I hid) and
twelve additional Important updates which all installed successfully (see image below). I'm wondering now if my Windows Update might have run to completion with Dalai's recommended KB4012497 and KB4012583 updates yesterday if I'd been more patient and just waited a few more minutes.
My old MS Office 2000 Professional installation is no longer supported but I do receive a few security updates for the
Office Compatibility Pack SP3 every month. It's possible that pre-installing the
KB3178677 and
KB3178682 (
MS17-014 Security Updates for Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack Service Pack 3: March 14, 2017) might have decreased my "
Checking for updates..." hang even further but I decided to just let Windows Update run for an extra half hour or so instead of pre-installing these Compatibility Pack updates.
For users who are still running tests, there are two other Vista SP2 updates that are still possible candidates for a speed up patch this month. The description for
KB4011981 (
MS17-017 Security Update for Windows Kernel: March 14, 2017) sounds promising but it does not appear to supersede other updates and I can't find a file manifest that lists the files updated by this patch.
KB4012584 (
part 2 of MS17-013 Security Update for Microsoft Graphics Component: March 14, 2017) updates files for a vulnerability in MS Color Management, but it too does not appear supersede other updates.
I won't be updating my
step-by-step instructions on page 1 of m#l's thread
Updates not working, it has been searching for updates for hours until I have a bit more feedback from other users and have a better idea which speed up patches had the greatest impact in reducing their "
Checking for updates..." hang this month.
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32-bit Vista Home Premium SP2 * Firefox ESR v52.0 * NIS v22.9.0.71 * MBAM Premium v2.2.1
HP Pavilion dv6835ca, Intel Core2Duo T5550 @ 1.83 GHz, 3 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS