A hidden Patch Tuesday gem: A Windows 7 hotfix rollup

[Bongo]

Out of curiosity - how many updates are showing in wu Installed Updates?

I have 103 on 7x64 Pro

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I have 152, 7 Pro x64

 

[xxxdannyxxx]

Danny did you loose your custom shell32.dll with this update? I did.

Jerry

Sure did Jerry had to replace them both again.

Danny

 

[xxxdannyxxx]

Out of curiosity - how many updates are showing in wu Installed Updates?

I have 103 on 7x64 Pro

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111 Home Premium x64

 

[boohbah]

that would be telling,

updates all done and working fine, i actually see improvements , next thing i may do is sort out all the crap that is installed that slow it down,
poor thing has been quite neglected.

What improvements have you noticed. I've had it on 24 hours and can't say I have noticed anything at all.

Danny

when i previously opened explorer with mr grims poison theme the window would have a slight delay taking focus and would have a 3d depth to it ( best way i can describe it)
now it loads fine no issues,i also think explorer is faster. i only had a couple of mins with it before i was kicked, kiddie bedtime routines then evening viewing by missus took over the monitor.
so i can play more tomorrow and see how it shapes up,

Danny did you loose your custom shell32.dll with this update? I did.

Jerry

me too, gonna have to run 7tsp tomorrow and get my icons back, patched theme was ok though.
mind you the sp1 install reset them first so im glad i didnt re do them before the update.

 

[Phone Man]

I remember when SP1 came out it included about 100 updates that were offered through Window Update and another 100 hotfixes. Hotfixes are not offered through WU as they normally fix an issue that is not affecting a lot of people but do affect some. I am on the road at present but will apply the fixes when I get back home.

Jim

 

[lehnerus2000]

Out of curiosity - how many updates are showing in wu Installed Updates?

I have 103 on 7x64 Pro

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My PC (W7 Ultimate 64 bit) has 138.

 

[SIW2]

Interesting, unless you have a lot of optionals, there are a few dozen superseded hanging around on some systems.

I just uninstalled about 25 superseded.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.

 

[SIW2]

Is that a recent 7 installation ?

111 isn't bad.

Out of curiosity - how many updates are showing in wu Installed Updates?

I have 103 on 7x64 Pro

View attachment 259493

111 Home Premium x64

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Ok Gary then I should download it then I thought it was an IE specific patch seeing the problems just lately.

Yes if you haven't already.

No I haven't yet mate I have been head down rear up inside an old tester racking the two brain cells I have left to find a fan noise LOL!! but am going to as soon as

 

[xxxdannyxxx]

Is that a recent 7 installation ?

111 isn't bad.

Out of curiosity - how many updates are showing in wu Installed Updates?

I have 103 on 7x64 Pro

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111 Home Premium x64

Yes last month. Thats all updates installed including IE10.

Danny

 

[ICIT2LOL]

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??

 

[carwiz]

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.

 

[SIW2]

Might not mean anything to you - but it does to me. That is why I said optional.

 

[DavidE]

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.?

 

[Joan Archer]

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.

 

[Gary]

I have 194 including Office 2010.

 

[Britton30]

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.

 

[xxxdannyxxx]

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

 

[carwiz]

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.

 

[grits]

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 thought maybe this (MBSA) would be a good thing for me to do but as usual,I like to check out programs I see suggested & when I looked at the info on this one, it pretty much tells me that it's way over my head to know how to set it up & then understand the results. Am I mis-reading or is this program geared only to people that know PC's inside & out? I was blonde before it turned gray .

Thanx.