KB3020370, KB3045645, KB3020269, and KB3013531 blamed for the issues experienced after this month's Patch Tuesday

May 15, 2015 05:15 GMT  ·  By

One or more of the updates that were rolled out this month by Microsoft as part of its Patch Tuesday cycle are wreaking havoc on plenty of Windows 7 computers, causing them to get stuck on a screen saying that the OS is “configuring Windows updates.

This issue has already been confirmed by plenty of users, but Microsoft is yet to provide a workaround, so it's still a big enigma which of the updates released this Patch Tuesday is at fault for this trouble.

A report by Woody Leonhard of InfoWorld blames KB3020370, KB3045645, KB3020269, and KB3013531 for this “Configuring Windows updates” issue, but for the moment, it's unclear whether they're indeed the ones responsible for this issue or not.

Interestingly, some of our users have reported that these updates are no longer available via Windows Update, which could be a sign that they were the ones leading to installation problems on Windows 7.

Microsoft yet to update KB pages

But although Microsoft might have found an issue with these updates, the company is yet to update the official KB pages to publicly acknowledge the problems.

KB3045645's page, however, states that “Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the ‘Applies to’ section,” which includes Windows 7 too. KB3045645 is an update supposed to enable UAC prompts when a customized SDB file is created in Windows.

All these four updates can be downloaded manually via the Microsoft Download Center, but there's no doubt that many users would actually refuse that at least until the company confirms whether or not there's a problem with any of them.

In the meantime, if you're also experiencing issues with this month's updates, you might want to hit CTRL + Alt + Del to get back to the login screen and start using Windows as before (updates won't be installed though).