• What’s really happening with the Win7 “SP2” update KB 3125574

    Posted on May 23, 2016 at 14:28 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    I’ve done a squeaky-clean install of Win7 SP1 (the official copy from the MSDN site).

    Went to the Microsoft Update Catalog site, to download KB 3125574.

    Golly, the Update Catalog site doesn’t work with IE 8. So I opened IE 8 and upgraded to IE 11.

    I tried again, but the Update Catalog site didn’t like my copy of IE 11, either.  In the end, the ActiveX control for the Catalog wouldn’t install. So, following the instructions on the KB 3125574 page, I downloaded KB 3020369 directly and installed it

    I then went to the direct download link for “SP2” for 64-bit versions of Windows 7, downloaded 3125574 and installed it.

    A day after I started, I got notification that Windows was installing 1 of 1 updates. Many hours later (hey, a guy’s gotta sleep) the installation was done and I rebooted.

    These updates – and ONLY these updates – are installed:

    Update for Microsoft Windows (KB3125574)

    Security Update for Microsoft Windows (KB3123479)

    User-Mode Driver Framework v111 (KB2685813)

    Update for Microsoft Windows (KB971033)

    Update for Microsoft Windows (KB3063109)

    Update for Microsoft Windows (KB3020369)

    Update for Microsoft Windows (KB2888049)

    Update for Microsoft Windows (KB2882822)

    Update for Microsoft Windows (KB2834140)

    Update for Microsoft Windows (KB2786081)

    Update for Microsoft Windows (KB2731771)

    Update for Microsoft Windows (KB2729094)

    Hotfix for Microsoft Windows (KB2639308)

    Update for Microsoft Windows (KB2533623)

    Update for Microsoft Windows (KB2670838)

    Internet Explorer 11

    Microsoft Windows English Spelling Package

    Microsoft Windows English Hyphenation Package

    Hotfix for Microsoft Windows (KB2534111)

    Update for Microsoft Windows (KB976902)

    That’s it. No 3035583, no GWX, not much garbage. Those of you with hate lists of “bad” patches might want to check and see which of these are offensive in your part of the universe.

    Investigation continues.

    t/h to Anonymous for proofreading this list!

    Windows Patches/Security ,
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