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Update check terminates after 17 seconds.

I'm trying to say you could not be safer from them, even by doing nothing. And then you select "Never check for updates" anyway. You can have Windows Update take no resources at all.

Windows 7 cannot connect to update servers by default in both RTM and SP1.

Yes, it will. The file used to be available online at a Microsoft URL. It used to get retrieved to the user profile automatically when activating the gadget and then updated regularly. The Microsoft online template went out of service soon after mainstream support ended.

No. On Dec. 1 your Config.xml turned unmodified for at least 72 hours. It is the date last modified that makes or breaks the gadget.

You started out with and then introduced the July 2016 one for no obvious reason.

When they retired all Windows-signed SHA-1 content last year, nothing actually changed in Windows 7 SP1 against their own claim. Them now claiming "We expect the SHA-1 certificate expiration to be uneventful" I guess means less than nothing will change.

Do you understand that the July 2016 update rollup and the Convenience Rollup is two different rollups? V4 of KB3125574 has been around since day one.

V4 is the first one. "Last updated: 5/16/2016". https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/search.aspx?q=kb3125574

"Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB3125574) is not working at all." Sounds like good advertising to me.

Fix 80072EFF by installing the March 2016 Windows Update Client. Windows Update Client for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2: March 2016

Nein.

Is it KB976932?

What is the exact content of Update History?

MS has created additional inconvenience lately. They broke selfupdate of the Windows Update Client. The good news is there is no need to mess with version 7.6.7600.320 anymore. Give KB3138612 a shot. https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB3138612 Regards, VZ