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I am trying to install Windows 7 in VirtualBox, but since it's pretty outdated, it finds like 150 updates and chokes while downloading/installing them. It estimates the download size at 1GB+, svchost.exe and TrustedInstaller.exe show gigabytes of read/write activity and it's been chewing the hard drive for a few days already. The VM has 4GB of RAM and task manager never shows that all of it is used, so I suppose disk activity isn't related to swapping.

Question: how do I get fine-grained control over update process? I don't want to click a button and know nothing about what's happening under the curtain. I suppose that when Windows finds updates, it builds an ordered list of them (or a list consisting of groups of updates that must be installed together). I want to see that list and I need a way to cherry-pick each of them and install them manually. Is it possible? How?

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    Run windows updates from the control panel, all available updates will be shown there, also change your updates setting to anything but automatically install updates. – Moab Apr 12 '18 at 16:36
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    This is not a direct answer to your question, but when I spin up new test VMs for Windows 7, I download the Convenience Rollup from the Microsoft Update Catalog. It's KB3125574 , about 50 megabytes. That way, I get stuck less in the low-feedback Windows Update control panel. – Christopher Hostage Apr 12 '18 at 16:40
  • Possible duplicate of [Windows 7 SP1 Windows Update stuck checking for updates](https://superuser.com/questions/951960/windows-7-sp1-windows-update-stuck-checking-for-updates)[.](https://superuser.com/questions/98712/windows-7-update-pack-download/98715#98715) – Ramhound Apr 12 '18 at 22:17
  • If that explanation isn't good enough we can close this as a duplicate of [this](https://superuser.com/questions/7261/offline-update-of-windows/115782#115782) question. – Ramhound Apr 12 '18 at 22:20
  • @Ramhound it is related but not a duplicate. I have provided details about Windows Update for context. Definitely want to learn a way of manual update management, like installing them one by one, by hand, perhaps in the order that Microsoft releases them. – Windows11 Apr 13 '18 at 04:32
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    You are asking for a way to view a list of updates, and selectively download updates, applicable to your machine. WSUS Offline would do that. So I disagree that it's not a duplicate. – Ramhound Apr 13 '18 at 05:17

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