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• Patch Lady – issues with out of band on 1607

  Posted on December 21, 2018 at 22:18 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  While Woody is still holding back, me and my test machines are reporting no issues on the out of band updates on both 7 and 10’s.

  That said on the 1607 platform watch out for this side effect:

  After installing KB4467691, Windows may fail to startup on certain Lenovo laptops that have less than 8 GB of RAM.

  Restart the affected machine using the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). Disable Secure Boot and then restart. If BitLocker is enabled on your machine, you may have to go through BitLocker recovery after Secure Boot has been disabled. Microsoft is working with Lenovo and will provide an update in an upcoming release.

  Windows Patches/Security Patch Lady Posts, Windows 10 1607

• Second round of cumulative updates for Win10 1607 and 1703, plus previews, just hit

  Posted on February 22, 2018 at 18:19 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  From @abbodi86:

  Updates are out
  —

  2018-02 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1607 (KB4077525) – that’s the second cumulative update in the past nine days for 1607

  2018-02 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1703 (KB4077528) – the second cumulative update in the past nine days for 1703

  2018-02 Preview of Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows 8.1 (KB4075212)

  2018-02 Preview of Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows 7 (KB4075211)

  2018-02 Preview of Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows Server 2012 (KB4075213)

  For security-only Win7 users, IE11 got new cumulative to fix some issue: Cumulative Update for Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7 (KB4088835)
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  heads up for Windows 10 Version 1703
  KB4077528 is only for English (US) systems,
  other languages do not attempt to install it, because it lacks any language specific components except en-us

  this is new kind of fiasco ?

  Oh boy. Wonder why 1709 didn’t get a second cumulative update?

  Windows Patches/Security KB 4075211, KB 4075212, KB 4075213, KB 4077525, KB 4077528, KB 4088835, Win10 1703, Windows 10 1607

• Is Windows 1511 Update unhiding the 1607 patch – again?

  Posted on February 2, 2017 at 19:18 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I just got a report from AElMassry that Windows Update unhid the “Feature update to Windows 10, version 1607” again.

  Many people were caught unawares around January 20, when a similar unhiding took place. I talked about it then.

  Now it seems that, once again, 1511 users who have hidden the “Feature update to Windows 10, version 1607” are seeing the patch reappear. As I said two weeks ago:

  I can understand why having the 14393.447 build available could trigger hidden 1607 upgrades to become unhidden. After all, that’s what happens with earlier versions of Windows – when a new version of a patch rolls out, it’s usually automatically taken off the hidden list.

  But this is the first time I’ve seen it for Win10, and it seems disconcerting that folks who have intentionally hidden the 1607 upgrade are now getting it installed silently – on both Win10 Home and Win10 Pro machines.

  If you’re trying to block the upgrade to 1607 (Anniversary Update) by using wushowhide, watch out. Your system may be back in play.

  UPDATE: Fascinating explanation from the patchmanagement.org mailing list (which I’m not supposed to quote directly): It looks like this new version of the upgrade to 1607 is different from the one released in late January – the upgrade in late Jan was 3 GB, this one is 4 GB. That’s what would trigger another round of unhiding.

  Sure nice of Microsoft to warn us….

  Windows Patches/Security update, Windows 10 1607, WUShowHide