Apart from that, they seemed to be completely random. All of these solutions had one thing in common: they involved replacing win32k.sys. In June, the magic bullet came from KB 3161664. In May, EP found that installing a totally different patch, KB 3153199, also did the trick. In April, poster EP on discovered that installing two completely unrelated patches - KB 3138612 and KB 3145739 - could reduce Win7 update scan times from hours down to minutes. The monthly Win7 patch whack-a-mole has been reaching Keystone Kops proportions. Microsoft claims to have finally solved the problem with speedup patch KB 3161647, but there are a couple of gotchas. The check for Windows updates - a simple process that should take a few minutes - has ballooned to two, three, four, eight, or more hours for many (I'm tempted to say most) Win7 customers. For the past five months, there has been a crescendo of complaints about slow Windows 7 scans.
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