March 10th 2015 Windows Updates

Seffrid said:

Ranger4 said:

I had another 4 updates this morning, plus the usual MSE update & as you can see 2 of them were installed twice. No reboot & all went well.

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With the exception of KB3032359 which is from this week's updates, the other Windows Updates (as opposed to the MSE one) were all from last month's list. Had you already installed them last month?

Seffrid. You have actually raised an interesting point, that may need to be kept in mind. Those updates were actually installed in Feb 15.
But yesterday I ran Win Disc Clean Up as Administrator to clear out all the old Windows Updates & it seems that may be the reason for reinstalling some of them this morning. This seems to indicate that Disc Clean Up may actually remove some updates, even those that have been installed 2 months ago.

jonnyhillow said:

Ranger4 said:

I had another 4 updates this morning, plus the usual MSE update & as you can see 2 of them were installed twice. No reboot & all went well.

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I kept having (kb3021952) and (kb3032359) wanting to re install although they were already showing as installed.

Have run run Win Disc Cleaner in the last few days?. That's what I think caused my computer to reinstall those 2 updates today.

Any cleaner has the capability to be dangerous including CCleaner.

I use it to look through and clean the registry of any old programs that I've removed, I always make the backup, run the scan, and still look at every entry.

CCleaner - Delete Junk Files

Anak said:

Any cleaner has the capability to be dangerous including CCleaner.

I use it to look through and clean the registry of any old programs that I've removed, I always make the backup, run the scan, and still look at every entry.

CCleaner - Delete Junk Files

I haven't been at all impressed with CCleaner. I've tried using it in the past only to get less than happy results so now I only use it to wipe HDDs, mostly to torture test new ones. I had to disable every feature except that one and take it out of the start up folder because, otherwise, it acted like a virus, running up my CPU usage and interfering with some of my programs. When I close the program after using it, I have to go into Windows Process Manager to actually kill the process which was still running, again acting like a virus.

I have had excellent luck using Glary Utilities. It has, among many other things, an extremely conservative registry cleaner that only removes entries that don't point to anything. I've never had a problem with it.

jonnyhillow said:

I kept having (kb3021952) and (kb3032359) wanting to re install although they were already showing as installed.

Ranger4 said:

Have run run Win Disc Cleaner in the last few days?. That's what I think caused my computer to reinstall those 2 updates today.

I have a discussion going @Wincert.net regarding this problem: [14 mars 2015] Update list GDR pour Windows 7 SP1 x86/x64 (Fr-En-De-Es-It) - Page 23 - Windows 7 et 8 - WinCert.net Forums - Page 23

Couple of users @BC having same issue here:
Windows update shows two updates need to be installed but already are - Windows 7
Windows update shows two updates need to be installed but already are - Page 3 - Windows 7

KB3021952 (Feb "Cumulative" Update for IE) invloves a "bundled" update, it includes KB3023607. KB3032359 (March "Cumulative" Update for IE) is "bundled" it includes KB3040335 & KB3023607 (Again???) KB3032359 allegedly supersedes KB3021952 but both are needed along with KB3023607 to have a fully patched system. The problem occurs when Windows Update Cleanup (deepclean) is run after all patches are installed, it removes KB3023607, the "bundled" update from BOTH months as "superseded":

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2015-03-12 09:31:26, Info                  CBS    Adding: Package_for_KB3023607~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.0

2015-03-12 09:31:31, Info                  CBS    DC:  Package_for_KB3023607~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.0: unique  components: 58 Size: 20.54 MB (21,538,670 bytes)
2015-03-12 09:31:31, Info                  CBS    Total size of superseded packages: 20.54 MB (21,538,670 bytes)

The KB's 3021952 & 3032359 (5.2mb) that are continually removed, re-offered/installed... lather, rinse, repeat... are actually the bundled component KB3023607 which gets removed by deepclean.

RANT ON: Micro$oft should consider renaming their "bundled" updates, more often than not it seems they are actually bungled updates. And while we're at it WHY do I have/need 3, count 'em, 3 "Cumulative" Updates for IE installed; KB2976627 (yet ANOTHER of those bungled, oops bundled updates) KB3021952 & KB3032359????? /RANT OFF