New patches are out: 16 security bulletins, plus Win10 cumulative update

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Security bulletins are on the TechNet site. Don’t see anything from ISC yet. Good overview of Win10 patch KB 3163018, build 10586.420, on the Windows
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On Windows 7 64 bit it took 2 minutes yesterday and one hour today to check for updates.

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New WIN32K.SYS security update (MS16-073) [KB3161664] has been released which supersedes KB3153199. As of June 14, Win7 SP1 users should manually download & install KB3161664 instead of KB3153199 to resolve the Windows Update “forever” scan problem as the Win7 KB3153199 updates are no longer effective in fixing the WU scan problem.

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This month KB3161664 needs to be installed before checking WU to workaround the slowness.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3161664
http://wu.krelay.de/en/

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Can you please show Woody this and have him make a topic about it.

And this is the KB that will speed up windows update right?

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Just got it. Sorry, away from my desk for a couple of hours.

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This c*** with MS is now beyond ridiculous.

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So much for a precise description…:

“…vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if …”

What on earth does a security vulnerability have to do with the slowness of WU? They could at least have added “and to fix WU slowdown in Windows version… blablabla”. At least we would know what we are getting into when we install the patch!

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Are these re-released? I read about these some time ago and here they are again?
KB3139923
KB3140245

I installed these before as part of testing every update that microsoft offers that seems to have value (leaving out w10, telemetry, and updates with known problems out)

It would be nice to have a list of update that are causing the current MS-DEFCON level.

KB######1: New, status unknown (D:2)
KB######2: March 2016, causing massive problems, not resolved/replaced, pulled by microsoft (D:NA, unless re-released)
KB######3: Prep for windows 10
KB######4: Prep for windows 10 / telemetry
KB######5: Pure telemetry

(superseded updates should be on a secondary list)

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It’s probably about its position in the whole update-dependence-tree, which triggers the bug with win32k.sys being a core kernel component.

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On Windows 7… I just did the latest round of updates and after the reboot many of my desktop icons were not there!!! Also my folder view settings were set to default, Word Wrap was undone in text files, show file extensions was undone as well as show hidden files and folders and protected OS files were back to default. Desktop icons that were left were rearranged. Systray icons were back to default as well and NOT showing as I wanted them to, they were ALL hidden. I was losing it! I then did a complete shutdown and when I started the computer back up things were back in place. Has anyone else had this happen?

On my Windows 8.1 computer I did the updates and restarted without any issues. I then did a second check for updates and I saw they tried to sneak in a Windows 10 upgrade on me… KB3150513!!!

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Can you isolate the bad patch?

KB3150513 is an old, old “pave the way for Windows 10” patch. It won’t install Win10, but it’s of dubious value for those who aren’t.

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Thanks for the reply Woody. How can I isolate it? I have no idea how I would isolate which patch did it as there were 16 or 17 patches I believe. I was in a panic, but like I said a shutdown and restart (cold boot) of the computer fixed all of the noted issues I had. I just wanted to share this odd issue and see if anyone else had it happen to them.

KB3150513 is old OLD? It came out in May of 2016 I believe. All I can say is that it showed up for install on Win8.1 for me yet again today.

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Ah, that would make sense, thanks.

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https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3150513

According to the above KB article, “This update will be offered only if KB2977759, KB2952664, or KB2976978 is installed on Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1), or Windows 7 RTM.”

If I had anything like that happen on my machine, I’d uninstall 3150513. Then I’d look into those three in the article for consideration of possible uninstallation to make 3150513 go away.

I don’t have those three in the article installed on my Win8.1 x64 Home edition & consequently do not have 3150513 listed on my machine.

DEFCON 2 prevents me from being comfortable with installing anything until it goes back to 3.

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The issue happened on the Windows 7 computer as I originally stated.

The Windows 8.1 machine is the one that offered KB3150513. I had no issues with that computer.

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In addition to those already mentioned by @Render, I would uninstall this one if it is installed https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3123862 – Updated capabilities to upgrade Windows 8.1 and Windows 7

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