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Posted on November 8, 2016 at 14:45 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

Good one just came in from EP:

New win32k.sys security updates are available for Windows Vista from MS security bulletin MS16-135:

https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/MS16-135

Vista users should install KB3198234 to speed up WU scans from November 8 to December 12.

Someone in the Neowin.net forum reported it took about 67 hours for Windows Update to show a list of available updates for Windows Vista – this was thru a fresh install of Vista & not having the latest Vista security updates (and the person was using a dual-core computer):

https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1270562-windows-vista-sp2-fresh-install-windows-update-doesnt-work/

Windows Patches/Security Vista scan speedup

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