Daily Archives: August 22, 2020

• What happened to the Win7 Windows Update Troubleshooter?

  Posted on August 22, 2020 at 10:55 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I have an old Win7 virtual machine that I’d like to get updated – but Windows Update keeps throwing an error 80092004.

  

  Normally, that means Win7 still needs the SHA-2 update, KB4474419 – but I already have that update. And since I’m using Windows Update, the latest Servicing Stack Update should get installed, too.

  Next step? Download the trusty, old (very old) Windows Update Troubleshooter. One problem: If the Troubleshooter is still around, it isn’t located where it should be. Here’s what I see:

  

  I know I can download the old Troubleshooter from about a gazillion different places on the web. But how do I know I’m getting the right one?

  Windows 7 Win7 Update Troubleshooter

• Another grab bag of bugs in the Patch Tuesday crop

  Posted on August 22, 2020 at 10:07 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  As happens every month, there’s a laundry list of bugs that accompanied this month’s Patch Tuesday Win10 patches: Can’t install, Blue and Green Screens, system slowdowns and the like. Mayank Parmar at Windows Latest takes us through the litany:

  It appears that Windows 10’s August 2020 cumulative updates could be crashing some computers (mostly Lenovo ThinkPad hardware) when Hyper-V, Intel virtualization or Windows Sandbox features are enabled. Lenovo users have also flagged issues with Windows 10 August security patch and turning off virtualization feature resolves the problem for them.

  Are you hitting any problems?

  Windows Patches/Security August 2020 Black Tuesday