• You know that Windows 7 End-of-Life nag screen?

    Posted on May 1, 2019 at 07:13 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    The scare isn’t working.

    Details in Computerworld Woody on Windows.

    Seven Semper Fi.

    UPDATE: I’m looking for the “patch” that activates that nag screen – KB 4493132. Can’t find it. It isn’t in the Microsoft Update Catalog. But the KB article is still around. It says:

    This update is available through Windows Update. If automatic updates are enabled, this update will be downloaded and installed automatically.

    But it isn’t showing up on any of my Win7 machines, most notably not on the super-clean Seven Semper Fi test machine I’m maintaining. Apparently the patch was released “for real” about April 18, but it may have been pulled.

    Günter Born notes that it was re-released on April 26. But I don’t see it now.

    ANOTHER UPDATE: As @zero2dash notes (and I forgot!), the nag screen patch is only intended for Win7 Home and Ultimate. I’m using Pro, and so missed all the fun.

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