Window 7 update problems

I gave my year old CF-52MK4 laptop to my granddaughter for Christmas and whated to do a restore to it first. So I loaded the restore disk in it and 45 minutes later it was restored to the factory setting. Then I went to M$ update to get it all updated...problem. I wanted to pick and chose which ones I wanted so then I clicked "get updates". Well it checked for updates for 24 hours and nothing ?? Well in the end I had to pick download and install them .It took 8 minutes to do it. Guess M$ does not like us chosing updates anymore. I tried it again late with other updates and the same thing happen. My Updates is now turned off for good. Check out the below ling

Microsoft Crippling Windows Updates on Windows 7 ....
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/microsoft-crippling-windows-updates-on-windows-7.781280/

 

I use this

http://www.wsusoffline.net/

I have ALL of the win7 updates up to 10/30/2015 on a USB stick. One click and it installs everything offline.
7gb

I then go run nummer's Destroy windows spying
https://github.com/Nummer/Destroy-Windows-10-Spying/releases/tag/1.6.716

 

i ran into a similar issue recently with an ASUS laptop i did a full install on a new hdd (and in the past on a '30 and '52) .
yeppers , the "searching for updates ..." kept grinding away for six hours .
the cure was to run the "mr.fixit" i found after googling "winows updates fail new install" .
i have no real idea of what goes on with some installs that would cause the type of failure i seen .