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• Buggy KB 4039884 Win7 patch of a patch returns with no explanation

  Posted on August 30, 2017 at 14:20 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  It’s baaaaack.

  The buggy patch of a buggy patch, KB 4039884, which was pulled yesterday, suddenly re-appeared today, with a different date and a new title… and absolutely no explanation for the shennanigans.

  In theory, KB 4039884, now titled “August 30, 2017—KB4039884” fixes the multi-monitor bug introduced in this month’s Win7 security patches, KB 4034664, KB 4034679, and KB 4034670.

  Personally, I wouldn’t touch it until we hear back from the unpaid beta testers.

  Note:

  Before you install this update, you must uninstall any previous version of KB4039884. Then install KB4034664 or KB4034679 before installing this current update of KB4039884.

  Now that’s customer-friendly.

  Windows Patches/Security KB 4034664, KB 4034670, KB 4034679, KB 4039884

• The usual non-security update previews are out, along with three non-security patches for Server 2008

  Posted on August 15, 2017 at 16:17 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  More of the usual.

  KB 4034670 – Preview of the non-security part of next month’s Win 7 Monthly Rollup

  KB 4034663 – Preview of the non-security part of next month’s Win 8.1 Monthly Rollup

  A whole bunch of previews of next month’s .NET patches. The original announcement, KB 4035038, has been pulled, but there’s a cached copy on Google. No idea why it was yanked. (Thanks, Susan.)

  Oddly, three separate patches for Vista and Windows Server 2008: KB 4019276 (spoolsv.exe patch), KB 4036162 (WordPad crash), KB 4037616 (TLS 1.1 and 1.2 support in Server only). All optional non-security patches.

  I don’t see anything interesting. Do you?

  Windows Patches/Security KB 4034663, KB 4034670, KB 4035038