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So what does he mean by this?  Specifcally what does yeet mean here??

 

“however careful, do an upgrade keeping everything as if you choose to yeet everything and start fresh, you lose your free upgrade. That old 7 license converts to a 10 digital license and from there you can clean install no problem.”

 

 

well after 4 reboots the hidden updates are back..Ugh windows..

so I can unhide nov security 4525235then see what happens..

 

[amber438]

Installed updates show

KB4519976 on 11-25
KB 4523206 today

4516655 prior in oct

ran windows update again shows pc is up to date.  Very peculiar

• This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by amber438.

Thanks.  All done and now all hidden updates are gone.lol..that’s good I guess.  Anyway only update showing now atm is 4523206 the ssu for nov and I’ll wait till Woody gives the all clear

Thanks so much.  It worked after 10 tries.  Weird.

Delete former anon post it was me. So far I’ve done it 5 times. I’ll keep trying

All done thanks guys

till this months defcon changes! 

ok.  got the first 2 installed fine.  KB4512506 has not appeared in my list to install as it did not go well last time and i got rid of the updates list in the software disto folder.  I downloaded it from the ms catalog.  Is it safe for me to install now?  It’s not in the installed updates on the pc either

PKCano wrote:

AKB2000012 How to limit telemetry in Win7/8.8

Thanks!  I’ll look into this!

GoneToPlaid wrote:

I don’t know if you installed the July security only update which does contain mild telemetry. This mild telemetry is very easy to kill.

Thanks for the compliment for my set up.  Stopped gaming a few years ago and it’s my older gaming system and runs like a charm.  No win 10 for me yet   althought I should build a rig to play with it.
Yes july security only was installed.  I’ll do the updates as suggested.  Been out of the field for a while as I retired a few years ago (A+ and network engineer) and never hurts to ask for help. Would you please tell me how to shut down the telemetry for the july security only update?

BBIAB

Thanks!

Amber

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GoneToPlaid wrote:

Ah good. A home-built rig. You shouldn’t have any issues installing KB3133977. Since you installed Win7 on a 1TB drive, I figure that you didn’t go through the special procedures to install Win7 to use EFI boot.

No EFI boot.  Good old cd.  I’m truly old school.  And in all the years of working on pc’s I STILL hate microsoft updates and, well, you know..:)

KB4490628 installed 8-31-2019

KB4474419 not installed yet dated sept 2019

KB3133977 hidden.  thought it had telemetry

So should I proceed with updates?

Ugh I hate windows updates…always have..

 

 

 

GoneToPlaid wrote:

Hi amber438,

Please see Microsoft’s KB article about KB4512506:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4512506/windows-7-update-kb4512506

About halfway down the page a list of three other updates which you must first install before installing KB4512506.

You must first install the latest Servicing Stack update KB4490628 and then reboot.

Then you need to install the SHA-2 Code Signing update KB4474419 and again reboot.

Finally, you must install KB3133977 which fixes an issue for computers which are using EFI boot for Windows. Before installing KB3133977, please tell us the make and model of your computer, so that we can make sure that you will not experience any issues after installing KB3133977.

Best regards,

–GTP

 

Computer is made by me.  Specs as follows:

Win7 ultimate SP1 64b
CPU AMD FX-8350 Vishera
Ram 24G Dual Channel DDR3
Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5 R5
Nvidia Geforce GTX 550 TI graphics card
5 WD Hard drives, 1 2 terabyte, , 2 4terabyte, 1 3terabyte and 1 1terabyte

OS installed on 1 terabyte drive in c drive partition, programs installed on d drive partition on same drive rest used as storage.

Ill check to see what is installed and get back to you.

Thanks!

[amber438]

Im holding off on aug updates but this popped up this morning in optional update:

August 17, 2019—KB4512514 (Preview of Monthly Rollup)

any idea what this is?

also this pc is a fresh install of win 7 ultimate and totally patched till aug and a driver update just popped up too.

advanced micro devices inc driver update for amd smbus

Im hesitant about it as pc is working exceptionally well atm.  Thoughts?

• This reply was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by amber438.

Thank you so much for this! I am redoing my windows 7 this weekend for the last time (bsod ugh) and came here to find out what updates I totally need.  I’ve not updated in many, many moons, have a great av and firewall program and don’t feel the need for win 10 at the moment.  I have about 5 hard drives and was wondering if I put the updates in a win 7 folder on one of them would that work for updating?