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AskWoody PlusI thought WU showed drivers under “Optional updates/Driver updates”, which I never installed. This one appears under “Updates available, pending download”.
I’ll just block drivers in group policy, again.
Thanks.
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AskWoody PlusYour short post finally got me to 20H2 from 1909 this morning.
I had tried for weeks to get from 1909 to 2004. Uninstalled and deleted Conexant. Nothing.
Changed target to 20H2. Nothing.
This morning, used Download Windows 10 site and selected “update now”. Had to run it twice to get it to complete, but I’m on 20H2 now.-
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AskWoody PlusMay 10, 2020 at 6:50 pm in reply to: MS-DEFCON 3: Time to get Windows and Office patches up-to-date #2261237Yes I’ve had mine set up that way for quite a while because it seems the simplest. But I didn’t know how to let Defender update without KB4549951.
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AskWoody PlusMay 10, 2020 at 9:11 am in reply to: MS-DEFCON 3: Time to get Windows and Office patches up-to-date #2261162Exactly what happened to me this morning.
Windows update was waiting on KB4549951 and Defender update.
While I’m right in the middle of hiding KB4549951, WU decides I’m paused. Hid KB4549951, rebooted, and resume only installed defender.
Will now flip coin to decide what to do with the update. I don’t think I have the insanity level to do this stuff anymore.
Win 10 Pro 1909 18363.720
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AskWoody PlusDecember 13, 2019 at 12:07 pm in reply to: Installing the latest Win7 Servicing Stack Update KB 4523206 may lock up your PC #2019114Yes, missed that — laptop had MSE update KB 2310138 (v 1.307.146.0) on Dec 9 with KB4525235
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AskWoody PlusDecember 13, 2019 at 11:33 am in reply to: Installing the latest Win7 Servicing Stack Update KB 4523206 may lock up your PC #2019076I am at this thread because I was having the same problem of hanging with ONE pc, but it is the one that I did not install SSU to yet.
Desktop was fine:
Win 7 Pro x64, Avast
Installed November update KB4525235 on Dec 9, restarted.
SSU KB4523206 showed up, installed.
Have rebooted several times since then, everything ok.Laptop issues:
Win 7 Pro x64, MSE
Installed November update KB4525235 on Dec 9, restarted.
SSU KB4523206 showed up but I did not install it.
Waited at least an hour before shutting down; everything looked fine.Yesterday I got back to this laptop and could not get it to start up, hung at welcome screen. Tried several times throughout the day. Safe mode was fine each time. Still had same problems this morning, but this afternoon, it started up fine.
I did not rollback anything.
The SSU is still waiting for install.
In hindsight maybe I should have let it hang for 24 hours instead of 60 minutes before rebooting in safe mode.
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