Solution to Windows 7 Updates Taking Forever

Manually downloading and applying these two updates, in this sequence.

• https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3020369
• https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3172605

If you see “searching for updates on this computer… when running those two updates,

Stop Windows Update Service(run as admin) :  net stop wuauserv  and try update again.