Whenever I leave my computer, I tend to put it in sleep or hibernate mode. I almost never shut it down. Today I noticed that updates were available for my Windows 7, but when I went to check them out, they were hidden from the list of available updates. Check the screenshots below.

The Solution

What worked for me was to simply restart my computer. Yup, da good olde trick, worked once again. NOTE: It did not help to simply restart the Windows Update service.

I hope this problem will be fixed in later versions, because it is really frustrating, now at least I know of a workaround. Even though I would like to know what caused this issue in the first place.

Happy Programming