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Patch Alert: Here’s where we stand with the June patches
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I should explain: I have seen no issues I can recall with any Office patches so far, for several months, unlike the situation with the patches for various versions of the Windows OS. I find this difference suggestive. Having bought Office both for my Windows 7 and macOS machines, I am interested. Maybe I am not the only one here?
Griping about MSdeeds is fine, but perhaps one should also look at the larger picture now and then?
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It’s a chicken-and-egg problem. I need to set up the post in AskWoody so I can reference it in Computerworld. Then, once it’s published in Computerworld, I go back and add the link to AskWoody. I then usually tweet it.
… except when I get called away. When that happens, it can take hours for me to get back to updating the link. PKCano has kindly filled in for me on link duty lately.
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Just a quick question knowing we are still on Defcon 2 and I am still waiting to do updates when Woody changes the level to Defcon 3 or higher….Is it safe to say that if our 2 home pcs (windows 7, group A) are completely updated with all security monthly quality rollup updates up to and including May 2018 (KB4103718) and we have had NO issues, would June’s monthly rollup (KB4284826) be safe to install?
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I guess therein lies the problem being an absolutely non techie and having next to no experience with computers I have NO idea how to do an image backup! Guess when the time comes I will just have to cross my fingers, say a prayer and hope for the best!!
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@KarenS, you can start with these threads: https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/macrium-reflect-free-edition-v7-1/
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https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/idiot-proof-step-by-step-guide-to-backing-up-creating-image/ (never mind the thread title 🙂 ).
Good luck, and don’t hesitate to post here if you run into any problems.
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Good information @Cybertooth!
@KarenS- You could start your own topic, so that it is easier to track any questions or issues you are facing. @Cybertooth gave good references, but there is a lot of information there, and getting from identifying as non-techy to feeling secure that you can recover easily is soooo important to learn. Believe me, you don’t want to have to restore from scratch… and there are a lot of things, not just patching, that can affect your computer… and creating an image is the least techy way of protecting what you have now, come what may! (Yes there are on-line back up solutions for your data that are set and forget- but having recently reinstalled from my OEM restore disks, I can tell you that just rubbed my nose in how exactly non-techy I am… and I had no idea of how much work it was to uninstall the unneeded extras, redo all my settings, and reinstall the programs I like to use).
PS- it is best to put your back up on a separate hard drive or USB stick, in case your hard drive fails completely… a separate partition will die with the hard drive, so don’t get stuck thinking you have to partition your drive. If you don’t have a separate medium to back up to, a partition is better than nothing before patching… but you really need to establish a regular back up routine that insures your ability to recover, whether it be from patching, fire, floods, earthquakes, theft, or other loss. Your data matters. Keep it safe!
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There’s also some very good backup information in the External Hard Drive topics (yes, it will take a little reading):
https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/external-hard-drive-options/
https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/external-hard-drive/
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I have been relying on image utilities for many years to save my bacon from updates gone awry, hard disk failures, malware, fat fingers, etc.
It may require a small learning curve regarding terminology and concepts, but it is really not difficult to do. Programs like Macrium Reflect are probably the easiest I have ever encountered.
1. Creating an image makes an exact complete snapshot in time of your hard drive exactly as it was at the time the image was taken.
2. No decisions need to be made about what files/folders to back up. Everything goes! Simple! This image is stored in an image container file on another physical drive.
3. This image job can be scheduled and run in the background while you continue to run Windows normally. You can store multiple versions of backup images, up to the physical capacity of the secondary drive.
4. Restoring an image to recover a computer means overwriting the current data on your hard drive with that from a stored image file. Macrium has an easy wizard that builds a bootable recovery drive (CD or USB flash) to boot your system with. Just boot with this, and have your latest good image file available on a connected drive. Restore. It’s that easy!
I realize that there are always questions lurking about which of the new patches will affect us. Everybody’s system is different, so there will never be a 100% safe answer to that. You will only know once you patch! Knowing that you can easily roll your entire system back to the way it was earlier is a huge stress reliever! Once you do this, you will never want to go back! 🙂
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Mea culpa.
I’m getting ready to put on my chain mail and sally forth to do battle again with the dragon.
I bring that up here only to confess that I, being of little faith, have backslided to using Windows 7 built-in backup, instead of the the recommended ones.
I have EaseUS installed, but frankly never made friends with it. And I’m clueless about how to check the files it saved. And Macrium…well I’m not ready for a new learning curve. My armor is rusty and so am I.
At least I know that Windows Backup will still be there if everything goes awry.
At some point, the tools became the masters rather than the slaves. I need to simplify my computing so it works for me, not the other way around.
Am I making a mistake?
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Morty, CyberTooth, anonymous 6536 here. You do release that this is posted in an 2018 June post right?
Morty, when you get ready to install May 2019 patches again put it in a newer thread like this one. >> https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/ms-defcon-4-its-time-to-get-the-may-2019-windows-and-office-patches-installed/
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Hey 6536!
I did notice that Morty’s post was in this old thread, but I couldn’t think of a way to reply to him such that the reply would be in a more current thread and he would see it. Your solution is probably about the best that can be done. 🙂
Speculating here: maybe Morty got caught by that strange problem the last couple of days, where very old posts were showing up in the “recent replies” section over on the right-hand panel, and thought that “June” in the title meant this June.
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Your question evolved into the need for making backups, which is always highly recommended for a lot of reasons.
Back to your original question. It is my understanding that while each Group A Windows monthly update is cumulative, it only installs what isnt already installed on the computer. It does not do a complete reinstall of the entire update.
As such, it would seem that if you are up to date thru May your system has already dealt with the loss of the lan nic issue with no problem. (Mine had no problem with May or had no problem with June).
That is not to say the June update could not expose yet another issue, thus good idea for a backup, but I’m thinking the lan nic issue is unlikely to affect you.
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Updates are the only reason I need to reboot. It’s funny; even nVidia display drivers don’t need reboots any more, but Microsoft has just stopped trying to develop patches that don’t require it.
That screen grab above was the end of a 50 day run before I applied updates on June 15 that required a reboot. Sometimes I am too busy with real work to take the chance on an update breaking something or slowing something down so I delay the “patch day” a while. That’s what happened this time.
My Reliability Monitor would be jammed at the top too except that when I’m developing software applications failures I cause while testing occasionally get tallied as Application Failures or Warnings. Note no Windows failures…
And this is no dust-gathering system… Trust me when I say this workstation gets hard use.
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Noel, isn’t the reason MS patches require a reboot is that otherwise you can’t update the Registry?
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No, the registry can be updated live. MS doesn’t want to put the R&D into dynamically reloading updated OS components, and so forces a reboot to load updated components.
MS actually was going to make reboot-less updates a feature of Vista I believe, and (like many other significant Windows improvements) completely abandoned the project… I don’t recall reading anything that stated MS’s reason for doing the ole “mission abort” on this one…
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Noel, isn’t the reason MS patches require a reboot is that otherwise you can’t update the Registry?
I don’t believe a reboot is ever necessary per se. The OS is sophisticated enough to facilitate reboot-less updates, as mentioned above.
But you have touched on something that bothers me a lot…
At first it wasn’t possible to run a Microsoft operating system forever. It was not designed to have a free for every allocate, a close for every open…
Then came NT, which was built upon Digital Equipment Corporation designs for real, serious, sustainable operating systems that really could be run forever. It took a while, since Microsoft didn’t initially want to follow ALL the right paths with it, but finally in the mid to late ’00s the system got to where it could be run virtually forever.
Things were going in the right direction, then… They weren’t. Suddenly, in the early to mid ’10s it became okay – even expected that a system should be rebooted frequently.
The PROBLEM with this is that Microsoft could – and will – take shortcuts and not do good designs and implementations that CAN actually be run forever.
Right when we need technology to be more reliable than ever… Do we need self-driving cars that need regular reboots? Systems that manage folks’ health 24/7 that need reboots?
I don’t know what savings they THINK they’re going to get from not having to work so hard to make high quality software, but we’ve already seen better. There is no room for worse.
-Noel
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I have an old Linkstation NAS which runs on linux and which I telnet in and use for a lot more than just file storage which has been running without a reboot for nearly 2 years.
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Sometimes I am too busy with real work to take the chance on an update breaking something or slowing something down so I delay the “patch day” a while.
That’s the situation I get caught in, several times a year, too. I’m sure many business-use machines are also cautiously patched for the same reason of needing to keep on “just working” 🙂
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Yep. Hope it keeps up that way until 2023.
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I hope so, too. My fear is that when Windows 7 has completely reached end of life in Jan. 2020, Microsoft starts targeting Windows 8/8.1 the same way it’s targeted Win7. Since Win7 is still running on a good chunk of machines & challenges the Win10 monarchy, it has been more suspect to ‘update’ bugs in the last year or so. This is IMHO… but as Batman (allegedly) said: “Just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.”
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If I recall correctly, GWX appeared at the end of July, 2015, roughly 4 years, 5 months, and change before Windows 7 End of Extended Support.
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Winows 7 with the June Security Only update is holding stable for me — so long as you avoid any of the pitfalls with regards of any persistent NIC settings in the registry. The patches for Meltdown have been revised such that the impact on overall computer performance appears to have been reduced, and in fact enhanced when backing up a computer.
Griping about MSdeeds is fine, but perhaps one should also look at the larger picture now and then?
Tiny bit larger pic: Maybe M$ wants to continue selling that product line, not dump it?
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I believe Microsoft abandoned Win8.1 a long time ago. No manufacturers are installing Win 8.1 on new machines, because they’re in lockstep with Win10. MS forced Win8 users to upgrade to Win8.1 by Jan. 2016 or face end of life. Whether Gartner was in MS’s pocket or not, they basically killed a Win8.1 Enterprise version by recommending that Win7 Enterprise users upgrade to Win10 Enteprise, & Win8.1 users downgrade to Win7. Win8 Enterprise had no upgrade path due to this, IMO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8.1#Enterprise_adoption
Bought a refurbished Windows 10 64-bit, currently updated to 22H2. Have broke the AC adapter cord going to the 8.1 machine, but before that, coaxed it into charging. Need to buy new adapter if wish to continue using it.
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Yesterday, I read an interview with Satya Nadella. He describes that one of the keys to his success lies in the transformation of the culture and how they adopted a system of metrics linked to customer satisfaction like actual usage and tied their compensation to it to help that happen.
Sounds like it is very possible some side-effect of this is if you don’t have the satisfaction level you need to get your compensation, you will make it happen, maybe by let’s say, pushing a feature too fast and maybe forgetting to honor some deferral settings so everyone can have the joy of trying the buggy thing…
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If you go by the netmarketshare.com results, Windows 7 continues to be the most popular desktop OS in the world, and it hasn’t had any new features in the better part of a decade. What it did have, until very recently, was all of the stability and reliability one would expect from an OS that has not had any new features added in many years, but was still being patched for bugs and security issues, leading to an ever more stable code base over time.
Given the enduring popularity of Windows 7 (and of XP in the years before), it seems quite evident that the route to customer satisfaction doesn’t go through “Add a lot of new features at random so we have bullet points to list in the press release”ville. If MS is trying to improve customer satisfaction, they might try actually giving the customers what they’ve been asking for, begging for, or demanding since the introduction of Windows 10. I don’t think the customer base for Windows could have been any more clear than we have in communicating to MS what we need from an OS. They’re either lying to us or lying to themselves about the whole “customer satisfaction” thing.
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We have a couple of pulled posts.
Please, folks, you can contribute to the conversation without lashing out at individuals.
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He describes that one of the keys to his success lies in the transformation of the culture and how they adopted a system of metrics linked to customer satisfaction like actual usage and tied their compensation to it to help that happen.
Actual usage might not be an indication of customer satisfaction… case in point, how many people have spent hours and hours, trying to prevent or recover from bad updates? The bad updates keep them working in Windows… but there is absolutely no customer satisfaction in it. How many people give up and leave useless apps on their desktop… which shows they are there (incentivized adoption rate?)… but those same apps are really despised? Again, not an indication of customer satisfaction. How many people have struggled to return settings to what they want to use, only to have them reset again… and the fact that they are using those settings is not customer satisfaction, but control exerted by Microsoft. Actually, it looks like Nadella is rewarding employees for locking customers more firmly into features and apps that they can’t escape, rather than rewarding actual customer satisfaction. Seriously, not one person I know is happy with their Windows experience since GWX. Slavery and submission might satisfy those with power and control issues… but no one should confuse that with success because something is really valued, chosen, and adopted by preference, because it is actually the best. Nadella has not been successful in engendering customer satisfaction along with W10 adoption. It might be the most despised and fastest abandoned OS… definitely earned that title in my circle of family and friends!
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Now Sets is getting pulled from RS5, the only real point to make for 1809 will be a dark theme for Windows Explorer…. making it yet another Win10 version update that adds very little and gives very minimal incentive to upgrade. Maybe instead of 6 months, you guys (MS) do a 180 and decide to do these yearly? Or, maybe, crazy idea here… work on better patch management instead of trying to implement features that are half baked and that you eventually pull the plug on and remove anyway?
Very stagnant time in Windows land IMHO. People are best staying put (as much as possible) with whatever they have, while MS keeps spinning their tires. Unless you have 1803, which in that case, clean install something, anything else. 😀
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I haven’t seen any compelling features in RS5 (probably “1809”), but I haven’t looked very hard.
With 1803 we have a minor incentive — Timelines, which only work with Edge and Office. And we have a major disincentive — pulling the update deferral settings back into Group Policy.
Can anybody point me to anything significant that I missed?
Upgrading Windows twice a year makes absolutely no sense. At all.
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Maybe not having any attention-grabbing new features is a good thing. Perhaps it signals an update that will focus on internal, under-the-hood stuff that has been broken by the previous feature updates. Perhaps it also signals that MS isn’t trying so hard to come up with features for the sake of features as it once seemed to be!
I’m not a fan of the “release early, release often” software development model, but if one is going to do it, by all means, do it right. Mozilla, unfortunately, decided to follow Chrome (everywhere, heh) into the rapid-release schedule, but most new Firefox releases are only incrementally different than their immediate predecessor. Of course, Mozilla never called the releases “feature” releases, thereby creating the expectation that each new point release would have new features. If a new feature is being developed, Mozilla worked on it until it was ready for release, then released it in whatever the next release was at that point. They took their time with things like 64-bit support for Windows, e10s, and Quantum (which I wish they’d skipped, but that’s not the point here). They released big feature updates when they were ready, not when it was a convenient time for marketing purposes.
The rapid update schedule and the very concept of “release early, release often” were designed around open-source development methods. They don’t necessarily translate to the closed-source, proprietary model. Marketing has a seat at the development table in closed-source, whereas open-source scarcely has any marketing at all. MS has let marketing desires drive the entire WaaS process, and marketing seems to be its only point at all. That would be an example of how to do it wrong.
MS releasing a new build whose only features were a new theme for Windows (they’re all over DeviantArt, for free!) sounds like a step toward doing it less wrong, at least. We’ll have to watch and wait, of course, but if all the updates began to be for things that actually needed fixing, that would be a massive improvement.
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wow woody. you said in your latest article that Windows 8.1 continues to be the most stable version of Windows. I think I’m glad I did not upgrade my dad’s Toshiba touchscreen laptop from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. Didn’t want to mess with a good thing 🙂
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I have a rather plain vanilla Windows 7 system. I figure I’ll just keep patching until something breaks.
My computer is a wallflower. Really.
On permanent hiatus {with backup and coffee}
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Group G is the only way to go these days. One can no longer trust any updates from Microsoft to uninstall properly. How about last years’s infamous update in which Microsoft tried to block the new AMD Ryzen CPUs from receiving updates? That update killed Windows Update on my Win7 PCs which have Haswell I5 CPUs. I had to restore them from offline backups since uninstalling that update did not resolve the issue.
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Just upgraded my two computers for June with no problems noted:
Windows 7 Pro x64 Realtek PCIe controller – KB4284826
Windows 10 Pro x64 v1709 Intel Ethernet Connection (2)1219-V – KB4284819
In retrospect, there has been very little problem with either of these 2 updates this month. Most of the discussion boards including this one talked mostly about windows 10 v1803 or other topics of conversation.
Here’s hoping July is smooth sailing.
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Same here. Yet before I updated my Win7 computers with the June update, I first manually searched my computers’ registries under CurrentControlSet — Enum for whatever the network persistent info key is called, just to make sure that I would not lose network connectivity after applying the June update.
With regards to the upcoming July updates, who knows? Microsoft’s track record for reliable Windows updates is now in the sewer, thanks to Nadella. With Ballmer, Windows updates used to be quite reliable. With Sinofsky, reliable Windows updates began to sink into the gutter. I really didn’t think that it would get worse than that, yet Nadella proved me wrong. With Nadella, Windows updates have sunk below gutter level and into the sewer in terms of quality and reliability. Nadella should be proud of his remarkable accomplishment since, after all, Microsoft has decided that Windows is dead and that the Cloud is everything.
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2018-06-22 — TRIAL INSTALL OF KB 4284826
This follows on from my original post — #186338
As I do not have a canary, and I have not updated any of my computers since December 2017 I decided to bite the bullet and use my main computer as a guinea pig —
Image backup of my computer done with Macrium Reflect
BIOS updated from F7 to F10
Programs, and Antivirus updates done.
Installed KB 4284826 to see what would happen !!!!!!!Installed ok
Using Inspectre program — saw that Meltdown problem was fixed but not Spectre
Computer was slower than before update, so turned off Meltdown fix with InSpectre program — https://www.grc.com/inspectre.htm — this fixed the speed problem.The update put “sleep” and “hibernate” on my shutdown menu and activated the hibernate function. I have never used either function before — so the update has modified my setup.
I had to use the command prompt to turn the “hibernate” off and remove the 10Gb hidden file it created from the C: drive.“Sleep” was set to “never” but computer is still showing a greyed out “sleep” item on my shut down menu.
All the Shares on my Server (Win Home Server 2011) appear to be working.
Network is a Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller.FYI — to find out what all the hardware is in my computers I use Speccy — a little program found here — https://www.ccleaner.com/speccy/download/portable
Using computer for a few days to see what else pops out of the woodwork.
Hope this helps.
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Hello mbhelwig,
Obviously you are a Win7 user on Group A. I am a Win7 user on Group B. Your notes are very interesting that the June Monthly Rollup additionally changed your computer’s Sleep and Hibernate settings. Is anyone else seeing this with the June Monthly Rollup?
Instead, it could be that when you updated your BIOS, some default BIOS settings may have changed which affect the allowable types of suspend modes for your computer. I would have suggested that you do not update your BIOS since Intel is still working its mitigations for Meltdown and Spectre, and BranchScope. By updating your BIOS, you may have inadvertently installed Intel’s v1 version of their Meltdown and Spectre microcode. Intel’s v1 microcode has known issues which cause blue screens, and which can cause data corruption or loss of data.
Who is your motherboard manufacturer, and what is your motherboard model? Alternatively, you can reply with a link for the page from which you downloaded your F10 BIOS update. Then I can download the F10 BIOS file and check it, in order to see if your computer is starting up and loading Intel’s flawed v1 microcode.
Best regards,
–GTP
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Hello mbhelwig,
To make sure that you will not encounter network issues when updating the other computers with the June rollup, you can do the following.
Open the registry and navigate to:
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\PCI
Once there, simply search for all keys called:
SlotPersistentInfo
If found, delete them, close the registry, and then install the June rollup.
On another note, your GA-H87M-D3H uses an AMD Aptio 4 BIOS. So do my computers. When I am sure that Intel has produced their final microcode version to prevent Meltdown and Spectre, I will be creating modified BIOS flash files for my computers. The BIOS flash file will contain Intel’s microcode for preventing Meltdown and Spectre. I will be able to do the same for your GA-H87M-D3H. I am not anxious to do this in the immediate future — unless working Spectre attacks are discovered in the wild.
Best regards,
–GTP
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Home-built Win 7 x-64 desktop.
KB4284826 & MSRT were only Importants listed, both checked. Both installed quickly, no muss, no fuss. Hid the two July Previews (SMQR & .NET).
And as noted earlier by @GoneToPlaid, I also noticed a perceived (by the Mk. I Eyeball test, anyway) slight improvement in performance.Windows 10 Pro x64 v1909 Desktop PC
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I was also only offered the June monthly security roll up and the MSRT and went ahead updated. So far no ill effects.
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I installed the Win 7 x64 June Monthly Rollup (KB4284826) today without any issues.
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Just installed KB4284826 without any issues: Windows 7 Professional, 64 bit, SP1 – Group A.
Whoppee! Don’t have to obsess until a few weeks more. 🙂
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Thank you for your reply GPT. What does the Registry key “SlotPersistentInfo” do. I have not heard of it before at all. A search of my updated computer registry shows that it is not present. I will look tomorrow at the computers that I still have to update. The “sleep” and “hibernate” functions do not bother me as they were easily removed.
This is the registry key (one or more may exist under ENUM) for PCI networking which if present, could cause users to lose network connectivity after installing any of the March 2018 through June 2018 Monthly Rollups or Security-only Updates. Microsoft appears to have further tracked down the issue to a missing .INF file for third party software in relation to network cards. The entire issue is triggered if SlotPersistentInfo keys are present for real or virtual network cards, when the Windows update updates PCI.SYS to a newer version on the user’s computer.
To make sure that you do not encounter the above issues, search for any SlotPersistentInfo keys under ENUM\PCI as I previously described, export up each key to a separate .REG file which you should conveniently save to the Desktop, and then delete the key. The odds are that you will not find any SlotPersistentInfo keys on your computers, unless you have installed third party virtualization software. Still, it is a good idea to check for this potential issue and nip it in the bud before you install the June 2018 update on your other computers.
I updated 3 Win 7 computers last night with the June patches, all with no issues.
All are Group B, so it was KB4284867 (Security Only) and KB4230450 (IE 11).
The machines are:
Win 7 Starter, 32 bit, Intel Atom cpu, and Atheros AR5895 Wireless Network Adapter
Win 7 Pro sp1, 64 bit, Ivy Bridge (3rd generation) core i5 cpu, and Intel 82579 LM Gigabit Network Connection (it’s an Ethernet connection)
Win 7 Pro sp1, 64 bit, Broadwell (5th generation) core i3 cpu, and Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 3160 network adapter.
The last machine took about 10 minutes to reboot, which is quite long for it. But, to reiterate, all 3 machines work as they did before patching with no noticeable slowdown and no internet connection problems. And just to be clear, all 3 machines are now completely updated Group B style through the June patches.
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I updated 3 Win 7 computers last night with the June patches, all with no issues. All are Group B, so it was KB4284867 (Security Only) and KB4230450 (IE 11)…
Same here and Group B, except that I did the identical thing on all of my Win7 home computers on 06/20/2018, yet only after I had performed backups of each computer’s C: OS partition in case anything went bad. I am now 11 days “in” on all four of my Win7 home computers with regards to testing of these updates, with no apparent issues. I really can’t believe it. In fact, and given the past two years of Windows Update Hell, I am rather shocked that I have not encountered any issues.
Moreover, the issues which I have been experiencing, since around July or September 2017 with some really old XP programs crashing in ntdll.dll on my Win7 computers, either when closing opened files within the program or when closing the old program itself, have finally been fixed. At this point, I consider the June 2018 update for Windows 7 to be golden in terms of resolving several long standing issues, and in terms of somewhat improving the greatly degraded performance of the baked in Windows protection for Meltdown which Microsoft introduced, starting with the January 2018 updates.
Note that Microsoft presently offers both Meltdown and Spectre protection, via Windows Updates to the OS software and via new CPU microcode which is loaded when the OS starts, ONLY for Windows 10. Note that Windows 7 and Windows 8x DO NOT, via Windows Updates, receive updated and OS loaded CPU microcode to prevent Spectre when these OS’s start, even though doing so is COMPLETELY within Microsoft’s ability to do so. It would appear that Microsoft is throwing Windows 7 and Windows 8x under the bus.
Regarding Meltdown…
Hopefully Microsoft’s June 2018 updates do a better job of preventing Meltdown, and with a bit less performance impact. Nevertheless, it would still be wise to update your graphics drivers to the latest version, and to update your web browsers to the latest versions, since these updates may also incorporate vendor protection against Meltdown within these types of products.
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