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Tags: AskWoody Plus Newsletter March 2020 Black Tuesday March patching Windows 7 threats Windows updating
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AskWoody PlusMarch 31, 2020 at 3:58 pm #2212746FYI,
Probably few of us Windows 10 1809 users left but a few other patches are showing up.KB4494174 – 2020-01 1809 Update (dated of Mar 10, 2020)
KB4538156 – 2020-02 Cumulative Update .NET 3.5, 4.7.2, and 4.8 (looks similar to KB4537480, also Feb 24 2020)I am likely to install KB4494174 in the next week and will skip KB4538156.
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GuestApril 1, 2020 at 7:57 pm #2213542Susan, I did buy two ESU licenses for two Windows 7 machines only to find out that you cannot use them on Windows 7 Home, which is what both of my machines are using. Ted was very helpful in assisting me to install them and then when I couldn’t get any security updates, he told me that it doesn’t work for the Home edition.
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