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I have a PC that hasn’t been used for a while and after turning it on I discovered updates needed to be applied. 2019-09 Cumulative update. I tried updating and the update failed for an unknown reason. Then I downloaded the latest Update Agent update (2012) for Windows 7 x64 and applied that. That installed successfully. I tried installing the 2019-09 cumulative update again and it failed. Maybe too old? So I went and downloaded the 2019-11 cumulative update for Win7 x64 and ran that. Got a message “This update is not applicable to your computer”. Anyone have any ideas on how I can update this PC to the 2019-12 updates? I assume I have to do 2019-09, 10 and 11 first, but I can’t find 09 or 10 on the MS site. Only the November and December cumulative updates are visible.

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Check out these 2 threads.
https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/any-advise-on-how-to-safely-update-a-new-win-7-home-premium-install/
https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/asking-for-a-favor-about-updating-my-win-7/

If you need more help afterwards, post here.

cheers, Paul

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Tom

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Thank for that. That post is quite a long one and this system has been updated to 2019-09 so I didn’t think I’d have to go through this long procedure.

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I had a similar problem.

Based on a previous post, here is what I would try:
1) KB4490628 Service Stack 2019-03
2) KB4523206 Service Stack 2019-11
3) KB4525235 Monthly Cumulative Rollup 2019-11

sample of where the Microsoft Update Catalog is for KB4490628: https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=4490628 ; choose the x86 or x64 patch for your Windows 7 version. Enter a difference KB number to find the other patches.

original post: https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/september-patch-tuesday-rolling-out/#post-1952232

 

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Tom

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That worked perfectly. Thank you.

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In case this helps anybody, another good patch to have is KB4474419, described in the Dec. 23 issue.

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both KB4490628 & KB4474419 updates are required to install recent Win7 updates which are SHA2 only signed

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Just not to the same extent. KB4490628 is required. When you have KB3033929 or/and the September 2016 Rollup Update or/and any instance of the SQMR or/and the May 2019 SOMU installed, KB4474419 is nice to have.

Regards, VZ

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