A hidden Patch Tuesday gem: A Windows 7 hotfix rollup

I don't know if I am in the right spot or have a clue what I am doing now but the two hotfixes have warnings on them which don't look good.

Can someone tell me if these are the right ones to download??

Comparing update counts don't mean a thing. Many of the updates apply to Office products too and there are several active versions of that. Updates will vary from one machine to the next. If you really want to know if YOU are up to date, download and run Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA). It will let you know not only if you have all the critical and important updates but also analyze security "holes" in your system. One item I forgot to do, and was reminded by MBSA, was to disable the Guest Account.

carwiz said:

Comparing update counts don't mean a thing. Many of the updates apply to Office products too and there are several active versions of that. Updates will vary from one machine to the next. If you really want to know if YOU are up to date, download and run Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA). It will let you know not only if you have all the critical and important updates but also analyze security "holes" in your system. One item I forgot to do, and was reminded by MBSA, was to disable the Guest Account.

I used to run MBSA on my XP machine, forgot all about it so haven't installed it on the 7 or 8 ones.
I'm up to date with Windows Updates, including now I have IE10 which was offered with the last round of Updates, this is on my Windows 7 SP1 32 bit machine.

DavidW7ncus said:

SIW2 said:

Interesting, unless you have a lot of optionals, there are a few dozen superseded hanging around on some systems.

I just uninstalled about 25 superseded. WU has not offered tham again. I don't use defender or msrt , so it isn't those.

How do you find superseded updates that can be uninstalled?
Is it better to uninstall them, or just leave them installed "as-is" ... for reliability, performance, etc.?

I'd like to know this too and how you find out how many updates are installed without a manual count.

DavidW7ncus said:

SIW2 said:

Interesting, unless you have a lot of optionals, there are a few dozen superseded hanging around on some systems.

I just uninstalled about 25 superseded. WU has not offered tham again. I don't use defender or msrt , so it isn't those.

How do you find superseded updates that can be uninstalled?
Is it better to uninstall them, or just leave them installed "as-is" ... for reliability, performance, etc.?

I think they are these ones (Not that I have uninstalled any though)



Just click the blue link on the catalog page

Joan Archer said:

I used to run MBSA on my XP machine, forgot all about it so haven't installed it on the 7 or 8 ones.

MBSA won't run on Windows 8 at the moment. It runs great on Windows 7, Vista and XP though. I suspect an update will be coming for Windows 8.