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• Now we know why this month’s Win7 Monthly Rollup, KB 4093118, installs itself over and over

  Posted on April 20, 2018 at 07:57 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Our own abbodi86 traced down the problem.

  You gotta wonder who’s putting together these kludges for Microsoft’s second-most-popular version of Windows. Half a billion users. Billions and billions of bucks. And a dumb mistake that has some Win7 users pulling their hair out.

  Computerworld Woody on Windows.

  UPDATE: Abbodi86 has a more detailed analysis — and a fascinating discussion of the different levels of metadata — here. He also has a suggested fix for Microsoft, if they’re listening.

  It looks like Microsoft needs to fix things before the May Monthly Rollup, to avoid the same endless re-installation problems.

  Windows Patches/Security KB 4093113, KB 4093118, KB 4099950

• Microsoft releases major update to Win10 1703, and the usual Monthly Previews for Win7 and 8.1

  Posted on April 18, 2018 at 08:03 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Computerworld Woody on Windows.

  KB 4093117 brings Win10 1703 up to build 15063.1058, many miscellaneous fixes, no known issues.

  KB 4093120 brings Win10 1607 to build 14393.2214, a similarly large bunch of fixes, no known issues.

  KB 4093113 is the regular Monthly Rollup Preview for Win7.

  KB 4093121 is the similar Monthly Rollup Preview for Win 8.1.

  The Update Catalog says there’s a new version of KB 4099950, the abandoned patch for fixing the NIC/static IP bug in Win7.

  Windows Patches/Security KB 4093113, KB 4093117, KB 4093120, KB 4093121, KB 4099950