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• Revisited: How to update an old copy of Win7

  Posted on February 20, 2018 at 06:32 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Credit: David Stanley, Nanaimo, Canada

  Kevin Beaumont just tweeted:

  https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/965908161101271040

  Barry Dorrans replied with a reference to this advice from @SwiftOnSecurity in April 2016:

  [REVISED] If updating fresh Win7, first download these, install, and reboot to make update install faster:

  KB3102810
  KB3138612
  KB3145739

  What struck me is how @SwiftOnSecurity’s advice (from April 2016) differs from our AskWoody advice (Feb. 2017, as amended) from @CanadianTech at AKB 3172605, basically:

  3… download and install either one or two updates manually. In most cases only the first (KB3172605) of these is needed. If that produces a result that says the “update is not appropriate for your computer”, you need to first install the 2nd of these (KB3020369), then install the first (KB3172605).

  Can anybody out there reconcile the differences? Which method is best?

  I have a sneaky suspicion we’re going to see lots of Win7 (re-)installs this year.

  Uncategorized KB 3020369, KB 3102810, KB 3138612, KB 3145739, KB 3172605, Update Windows 7

• Is KB 3102810 booby trapped?

  Posted on November 6, 2015 at 13:09 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  This from reader EB:

  Is KB3102810 booby trapped to force me to take steps toward installing WIN10?  MS says it improves the auto update experience.  But then, MS says a lot of things.
   
  Thanks for monitoring MS shenanigans!
   
  As far as I know, it’s optional. Don’t check it, don’t worry about it.

   

  (No idea what it really does.)

   

  UPDATE: Just got a tweet from AJ: Fwiw, KB3102810 fixes a bug when SCCM is used to deploy patches, or when using it to upgrade to Win10.
   
  Most of you have probably never seen SCCM – System Center Configuration Manager – but it’s something admins use to distribute changes, particularly to Windows and Office.
  Windows Patches/Security KB 3102810