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It has been mentioned online as far back as 2010 that KB971033 may install automatically. That particular poster mentioned that he had set Windows Update to never check for updates, yet he claims that KB971033 somehow automatically installed. That poster didn’t mention whether or not he was opted into Microsoft’s CEIP, which makes me wonder if being opted into CEIP triggered KB971033’s automatic install? There is no need to uninstall KB971033, nor should you try to.

KB3021917 installs telemetry and performs a telemetry run to determine if your Win7 computer will encounter issues if it is upgraded to a later version of Windows (more specifically, Windows 10). If you are concerned about avoiding Win7 updates which install telemetry, then uninstall KB3021917 and hide it when it reappears the next time you check for updates.

ch100 wrote:

…How do you uninstall components from KB3125774? I cannot comment about the ASUS issue and you mentioned Bitlocker. The convenience update is supported on the Enterprise version, instructions and details were posted on Technet which is not a site for home users, but a lot of home users installed this update successfully. What is the relationship with Bitlocker?

Re the ASUS and Bitlocker issue, see:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3065487/microsoft-windows/recommended-kb-3133977-patch-can-cause-asus-pcs-to-freeze.html

The upshot is that KB3133977 is a Bitlocker patch. This patch should only apply to Windows 7 Enterprise and Ultimate versions which support Bitlocker, yet this patch tries to install on all versions of Windows 7. That is one issue. The other issue with this patch is that on many ASUS motherboards, ASUS enabled Secure Boot in BIOS even though Windows 7 does not support Secure Boot. The result for such ASUS motherboards is that, after this patch is applied, the ASUS computer is bricked. Woody’s Infoworld article mentions two ways to “un-brick” an ASUS computer after this patch is installed.

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owdrtn, Elly

Oops. I meant KB2545227, not KB2534111. I got my wires crossed. The Fix It 50688 for KB2545227 was pulled by Microsoft. See:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/windows-7-event-id-10-and-fix-it-50688/1b448c4f-e83e-47a3-a2da-f3d225161855

You say that KB3125574 does not contain telemetry components? Yes, it does. To be exact, five updates which install telemetry. Here is a list of all updates which are included in KB3125574. I have indicated the updates which install telemetry, and updates which have other known issues. See:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3cud0w70hpkxuol/KB3125574_List_of_KB_Updates.pdf

I never tried installing KB3125574, so I don’t know if the individual updates can be uninstalled. All I know is the list of updates which are included in the KB3125574 Convenience Update, as shown in my PDF document linked above.

 

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owdrtn, Elly

Hmm…after several days, MS finally approved my post using my online name of GoneToPlaid. See:

Building Windows 7 Images in 2017

I pointed out that Microsoft used to have a published Hotfix for the Event ID 10 errors which everyone saw after installing Windows 7 SP1.

I pointed out that KB2020369 should be installed only by itself.

I pointed out that KB3125574, the Convenience Update Rollup, includes updates which may cause issues, includes the KB3133977 update which may brick some Asus computers and which will not install on Windows 7 OS versions which do not support Bitlocker, and includes updates which install telemetry. The potential for bricking of some Asus computers is not documented by MS. I pointed out that others have documented other issues and inherent flaws within this Convenience Update Rollup.

So, let me see if I have this straight. MS claimed that the Convenience Update Rollup did not include any updates which which had any other known issues aside from what is documented by Microsoft on this page:

Convenience rollup update for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

All I can say to the MS documentation linked directly above is, Oh really?

Yet more importantly, MS, by finally approving my post (this took several days), is acknowledging that the Convenience Update Rollup (KB3125574) also includes deep telemetry, yet without any disclosure whatsoever from MS that KB3125574 (the Convenience Update Rollup) includes deep telemetry.

If anyone goes down the KB3125574 route, then there are individual updates which you will want to uninstall in order to remove the deep telemetry.