TEST -Update 7 installation media

There are several.

I think gimagex is probably the easiest for a tutorial.

It can be run from 7/8 or 7/8 pe easily.

From 8 you could use dism to capture, but it means commands.

Yes, Steven does a great job the lists up to date.

Slight snag, there are about 30 in there which have been superseded.

Not a big deal, just a waste of time putting them in, and a bit of disk space doing nothing.

If you have some non empty mount folders, just run dism /cleanup-wim

Supersede:

KB2476490
KB2487335
KB2488113
KB2503658
KB2505438
KB2511250
KB2522422
KB2524375
KB2525694
KB2534366
KB2536276
KB2604521
KB2607576
KB2618451
KB2624668
KB2640696
KB2641690
KB2657025
KB2658846
KB2677070
KB2691442
KB2709630
KB2712808
KB2739159
KB2741355
KB2758857
KB2763523
KB2762895
KB2794119

This step makes no sense to me.

SIW2 said:

3. Extract this onto C. UPDATE7v4.zip

Do you mean that the contents of the Windows Updates Downloader program need, after the WUD has run, to be added to the Update7v4 zip archive?

No just the content of the zip archive, rightclick and extract it to C:

When you run it's unzipped .exe it will ask for the location of the Updates you've prepared with the Downloader, so know their location or tell the Downloader to place them also in C:

gregrocker said:

Just used the latest updates from April 9th from download posted on Windows Updates Downloader (WUD) Update Files (ULs)

Afterwards only KB2718704 and KB2533552, Defender and Malicious Software Tool updates were needed, in addition to some drivers that came in.

I think I'll wait til the night before reinstalls to update the flash stick installer, thanks to the this automation you've provided Si. It saves at least an hour on each install.

I've followed this thread avidly from Pg1 and I'm impressed by the informative interchanges between all involved. My question, Greg, will the option to use this procedure be linked to in your equally informative post "Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7"?

Could I suggest right after the first item in step 1!