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LurkerJ said:

A friend of mine "upgraded" his laptop to Windows 10, then he gave it to me complaining of several problems, mainly the sleep/wake functionality is broken and the brightness can't be changed with Fn keys, he was hoping I'd make it work, and I did. I simply moved everything he wanted from C to D, then I simply stuck a bootable USB with Windows 7 and just formatted C. Now it's time to run the already painful process of updating Windows 7 but nope, let's make it more painful.

https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&q=windows+7+checking+for+updates+after+a+fresh+install&oq=windows+7+checking+for+updates+after+a+fresh+install&gs_l=serp.3...63320.64983.0.65285.11.10.0.0.0.0.242.849.0j1j3.4.0....0...1c.1.64.serp..9.0.0.xZWpgbX9vdU

What a clossal waste of time and pain in the ass Windows can be. 

Why is this even a problem so many people run into ? and why all the solutions proposed are so unintuitive?  If crucial security updates are this hard to obtain, then I should use another OS.... but there isn't any.

Soooo did he or you reinstall the drivers that came with the laptop? Because that certainly wouldn't be Microsoft's fault.