Installing updates Win 7

Most important thing is to have good, fast wifi connection before starting updates. Sounds like you have done the best things about the screensave and sleep. It may not go to sleep is updates are running, so that probably is not a problem. If you can get access to it, you might want to turn sleep time completely off. It will probably want to restart to complete updates, and if you leave it alone, generally it will do the restart by itself.

3 hours sometimes isn't sufficient - disable the sleep timer when your doing updates.

Mine just did a bunch of updates. Took quite a long time, but they finally did finish.

In the most recent batch of updates, my laptop hung on one of the security updates. I manually stopped the update and rebooted before continuing the process. It finished on the second try. I also read of somebody else on another forum who had to do the same thing.

Those 25 finally finished(quite a while ago) but when they had finished another new one had come up to be done! So I went ahead and did it too. I think changing the sleep period helped and maybe disabling the screen saver for that period of time. Thanks!

Sometimes they run all night if too many accumulate, and may have to be installed in several steps of shutdown and reboot.

Win 7 updates can and usually are 900mb or greater per month.

Garry: where do you come up with that hogwash? This one is 143 MB. This is the largest one in the last year.
Every update will show you exactly how large it is.

I'm not sure what day of the month it is but my monthly updates are usually 43 updates just short of 1GB same time every month I think on 2nd Thursday. Then I get the small updates every 2 or 3 days.
All up dates have been successful so these are not redo's.

If you have only had one 143 mb update in a year then you have a problem.

1 GB a month ? holy moly thats a bunch.