kb4054518 ??

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Around feb 1st,2019 In my “windows update” I got (windows 7 security rollup patch kb4054518) and saw the “published date” is 12-12-17 ? So i checked my past patching notes and sure enough i installed this patch on 12-31-17 and in the update history the status is showing successful yet a search in installed updates shows NO kb4054518?? I know i installed this patch 12-31-17 so why is it being offered again and got pulled from installed updates? I am thinking of just hiding it and moving on? Can anyone shed some light on this for me please.

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Only latest installed Monthly Rollup (Security or Preview) show up in “Installed Updates”

if you installed January or February rollup, KB4054518 will not appear

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Elly

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Not sure i fully understand as i am 100% sure i installed kb4054518 over one year ago on
12-31-17 so why would it show up in “windows updates” to be installed since i installed it already?

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There may be a difference between “History” and “Installed Updates.”
History is a record of what was installed by Windows Update. So if a patch was installed, it shows installed in “History.”
Now, if you uninstall an Update, that is you doing it, not Windows Update. So that doesn’t show up in “History.”
Now there is a discrepancy.

With Cumulative Updates, the latest one contains the ones before. So, when you install this month’s CU, last month’s may not show in “Installed Updates,” but instead this month’s will be listed (it contains last month’s). BUT, last month’s will still show up as installed in “History,” because history is history.

Another way that can happen is something in the Update’s Metadata does not satisfy Windows Update. So it offers you an already installed update because it “thinks” there is something missing. Usually, if you let the old update install, the install process will realize that the components are older, and it won’t overwrite any newer components. It will basically just “spin it’s wheels” – but it will satisfy whatever WU needs so it won’t offer it to you again. Kinda like giving a pacifier to a baby.

Hope this kinda explains things.

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Microfix, abbodi86, mrj2k, Elly

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Great explanation PKCano. Thanks.

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Mrj2k could manually download kb4054518. When he tries to install it, he will either get a popup message saying “This update is not applicable to your computer”, or he will get a popup message asking him if he wants to install this update. If mrj2k is asked if he wants to install kb4054518, then he could either hit Cancel or choose to install kb4054518. Personally, I would choose to hit Cancel since he already has one of the latest Monthly Rollups installed. On the other hand, it is possible that something in the December 2017 kb4054518 got un-superseded — perhaps something in the IE components?

The situation is different for those of us on Group B. One one or two occasions after installing a monthly Security Only Rollup or an IE Rollup (can’t remember which), Windows Update did present me with a couple of old updates which it wanted to reinstall. I chose to reinstall them since apparently something in them got un-superseded. No harm was done. One of the reinstalled updates was from 2014.

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